Boldness Quotes - Page 8

• It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Flames, Mind

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Mind, Landscape

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.

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• It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Bravery, Kind, Certain

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.78, Random House

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• Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions

  Leo Strauss

  Views, Average, Training

  Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.319, Wayne State University Press

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• Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Courage, Responsibility

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• You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting."

  Chris Gardner

  Courage, Passionate, Want

  "Chris Gardner Survival Guide: extended interview". Interview with William Welsh, washingtontechnology.com. October 19, 2006.

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• Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Opportunity, Greatness, Knowing

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.213, Macmillan

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• Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Unapologetic, Way, Film

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• Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

  Akhenaton

  Life, Children, Believe

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• Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

  Richard Cecil

  Laughing, Leafs, Spears

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• In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Business, Ignorance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Boldness'.

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• Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Strong, Character, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 532), 1895.

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• God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

  Margaret of Valois

  Heart, Men, Courtship

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• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

  Peter McWilliams

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.

  Robert Musil

  Thinking, Feelings, Limits

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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• This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxers, Telling The Truth

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

  Owen Feltham

  Friends, Wise, Thinking

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.23

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• A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Doors, Forgiving

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

  John Gokongwei

  Dream, Business, Integrity

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• Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Bits

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• Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

  Sophocles

  Children, Justice, Limits

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• The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Odds, Dumb, Challenges

  "Jerry Seinfeld, Online Force" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Higher

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• If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Passion, Reflection, Giving

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, translated by E. Lee, pp. 170-171, 1903.

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