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 Category: Boldness
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish Category: Boldness
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 Category: Boldness
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. – Pierre De Beaumarchais Category: Greatness & Great Things
