#boldness

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#boldness #curiosity #inspirational

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. ↗

— William Hutchison Murray

#committed #creatiion #initiative #magic #power

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness. ↗

— Dumas Malone

#boldness #courtesy #mind #politeness #scabbard

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. ↗

— Dale Turner

#boldness #brakes #lack #make #mistakes

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. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#answering #boldness #classes #confidence #even

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. ↗

— Jean Genet

#danger #enamored #give #i #idle

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

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. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#because #boldness #even #existence #fear

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#because #blindfolded #boldness #call #even

They can only kill us once. ↗

— Immaculee Ilibagiza

#immortality #holocaust