Boldness is blind. [ Proverb ]
Fortune befriends the bold. [ Dryden or Cicero ]
Know that nothing can so foolish be
As empty boldness. [ George Herbert ]
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. [ Pope ]
A decent boldness ever meets with friends. [ Homer ]
Love requires boldness and scorns bashfulness. [ Proverb ]
Where necessity pinches, boldness is prudence. [ Proverb ]
Boldness is bad in counsel, but good in execution. [ Lord Bacon ]
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. [ Bovee ]
Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing. [ Proverb ]
Sympathy can create the boldness which no other means can evoke. [ Dr. Parker ]
God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Carried away by the irresistible influence which is always exercised over men's minds by a bold resolution in critical circumstances. [ Guizot ]
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Those people who are always improving never become great Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. [ Hazlitt ]
It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]