#boldness

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#courage #courage-in-love #falling-in-love #first-love #fortune

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. ↗

— Criss Jami

#authority #beast #boldness #conquering #courage

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

#alone #believe #boldness #child #due

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ↗

— John Dryden

#fear #great #however #mask

Contemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was "an experience in theology". They said the reformer began praying with such humility that he could be pitied, only to proceed with such boldness before God that the human hearer would fear for him. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#forgiveness #prayer #experience

St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#after #again #apostles #associates #boldness

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#command #decision #even #evil #mankind

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

#beauty #boldness #destruction #disease #draws

Boldness be my friend. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#friend #my friend

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. ↗

— John Dryden

#impudence #knaves #men