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• Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Hero, Mark, Intellect

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.192, Princeton University Press

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• Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them…Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Magic, Genius

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• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  W. H. Murray

  Commitment, Misunderstood, Genius

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• Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before.... Many a person in this world is crying, knowingly and unknowingly, 'Come over ... and help us.' He might be your neighbor. She might be your friend. He might be a relative. She might be someone you met only yesterday. But we have what they need. Let us take new courage from our studies and pray, as did Peter, 'And now, Lord, ... grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word'

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Yesterday, Missionary, Needs

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• Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian.

  Polycarp

  Christian

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• One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

  A. B. Simpson

  Apostolic Church, Special, Spirit

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• Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Graduation, People, Doers

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• Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

  Gerald of Wales

  Class, People, Given

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• Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

  Chanakya

  Wife, Crow, Unions

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• To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Imagination, Perception

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.375, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In doubtful matters boldness is everything.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Matter, Doubtful

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• The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Secret, Lord

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• It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Ideas, Motorcycle

  "Acting and Politics Are Sometimes a Very Bad Combination". Interview with Lars-Olav Beier and Andreas Borcholte, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2007.

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• The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Giving

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

  Francis Bacon

  Execution, Blind, Danger

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• Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Unapologetic, Way, Film

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• You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting."

  Chris Gardner

  Courage, Passionate, Want

  "Chris Gardner Survival Guide: extended interview". Interview with William Welsh, washingtontechnology.com. October 19, 2006.

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Mind, Landscape

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.

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• It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Flames, Mind

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• Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Courage, Responsibility

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• Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions

  Leo Strauss

  Views, Average, Training

  Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.319, Wayne State University Press

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• It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Bravery, Kind, Certain

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.78, Random House

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• the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Thinking, Government

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• Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous

  Robert Greene

  Animal, Dangerous, Smallest

  Twitter post from Nov 1, 2017

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• Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

  Thomas More

  Change, Running, Long

  Thomas More (2012). “Utopia”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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