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. – Machiavelli
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
Venus favors the bold. – Ovid
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. – Michel de Montaigne, translated
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. – Francis Bacon
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom lies in being bold. – Robert Frost
Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1894
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. – Edmund Spenser
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. – John Dryden
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. – Theodore Roosevelt
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
