These bold quotes will inspire you. Bold (of a person, action, or idea) showing an ability to take risks; confident and courageous or (of a color or design) having a strong or vivid appearance.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging bold quotes, bold sayings, and bold proverbs.
Best Bold Quotes
- “Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.” ~ Denholm Elliott
- “Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.” ~ Herbert Spencer
- “If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.” ~ Catherine Booth
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“And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.” ~ Victor Hug
- “Freedom lies in being bold.” ~ Robert Frost
- “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” ~ Marianne Williamson
- “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” ~ W. H. Murray
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“I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what’s right for the people. I choose to make a difference.” ~ Bill Richardson
- “It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.” ~ Walter Scott
- “Courage is grace under pressure.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
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“Prayer in private results in boldness in public.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole
- “The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred…unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.” ~ Angela Elwell Hunt
- “It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.” ~ Aesop
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“A humble person is more likely to be self-confident… a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.” ~ Cornelius Plantinga
- “To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “It is better to be bold than too circumspect because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” ~ Tacitus
- “I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now!”” ~ W. H. Murray
- “Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” ~ Henry J. Kaiser
- “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.” ~ Marianne Williamson
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“A strong body makes the mind strong.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.” ~ Charlene Costanzo
- “The best revenge is the massive success.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “Question with boldness even the existence of a god.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“A decent boldness ever meets with friends.” ~ Homer
- “At times he could be very critical. He didn’t like prints on me. He didn’t like stripes. He didn’t like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.” ~ Priscilla Presley
- “He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.” ~ Jean Genet
- “Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.” ~ Boris Pasternak , Bold quotes on life
- “Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.” ~ John Dryden
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“Venus favors the bold.” ~ Ovid
- “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear… Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.” ~ Ninon de L’Enclos
- “Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days… What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.” ~ Mary Landrieu
- “Fortune befriends the bold.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “Boldness be my friend.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It’s the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.” ~ Steven Furtick
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“I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them, everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.” ~ Madame de Stael
- “Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect, and concurrence of mankind.” ~ Robert Dale Owen
- “When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it’s ready to climb.” ~ Pat Riley
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“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.” ~ Jean Anouilh
- “All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.” ~ William Stanley Jevons
- “A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be your constant companion of your walks.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can’t see it all.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
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“Also, I liked John Cage’s music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don’t know what academic poets write about.” ~ Kenneth Koch
- “Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness, and no heart.” ~ Ethel Merman
- “Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful, and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of mostly bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the design, engineering, and performance to inspire consumers and ignite the mid-size SUV market.” ~ George Murphy , Bold quotes on attitude
- “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.” ~ W. H. Murray
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“Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “Let your gun, therefore, be your constant companion of your walks.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “Boldness in itself is genius.” ~ L. Ron Hubbard
- “The only things those people have that you don’t is guts. Do you wanna live forever?” ~ Merritt A. Edson
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“Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.” ~ El Cordobes
- “There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful about. And maybe the path of least resistance is just not get on the horse. Maybe the path of least resistance is to get on a different horse – but we would never move forward in fear.” ~ Esther Hicks
- “Great victory requires great risk. -Hera” ~ Rick Riordan
Bold not afraid of danger or difficult situations.
