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Letter "B" » boldness
«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.»
Author: Akhenaton
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
boldness, hazard, hazarding, not due, performing, the Action, with boldness
«People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.»
«I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.»
«Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
assail, assailed, assailing, assails, boldness, discernment, impeach, impeached, notoriously, practices, rebuke, rebukes, rebuking
«I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Faith,
Humanity,
Safety
| Keywords:
accustomed, boldly, boldness, grandly, impudence, In Humanity, nobly, prejudiced, with boldness
«It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
boldness, roused, rouses, rousing
«Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.»
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
a great deal, boldness, caution, cautioned, cautions, fortune, great deal, skill, with boldness
«Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Questioning
| Keywords:
approve, approving, blindfold, blindfolded, boldness, existence, existence of God, homage, question, the existence of God, with boldness
«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 blind-folded fear.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
approve, boldness, existence of God, folded, folding, homage, the existence of God, with boldness
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