QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON BOLDNESS

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)

Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.

H. G. Bohn (British publisher)

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American poet)

Fortune befriends the bold.

John Dryden (1631-1700, British poet, dramatist, critic)

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

F. L. Lucan (39-65, Roman epic poet)

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.

William Joseph Slim (1891-1970, British field marshall)

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