Quotes about Boldness
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
— Samuel Johnson
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.
— Pope John Paul II
this is not a time of retreat but rather resurgence. This is not a time for compromise but rather courage.
— Mark Driscoll
O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
— John Piper
scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the light of further experience.
— John Polkinghorne
More to the point, there are times when dancing on tables is the most authentic prayer in reach, even if it pocks the table and clears the room.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
— Mae West
America, now is not the time for small plans.
— Barack Obama
Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.
— Mark Twain
We must substitute courage for caution.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maybe that is all any bravery is, a stronger fear of not being brave.
— Audre Lorde
I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.
— Stephen Hawking