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Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Long, Often, Run

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Knowledge, Reason

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

Goodness, Virtue, Fearful

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire

Truth, Live, May

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing, Friend, Purpose

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.
Chuck Palahniuk

Life, Fun, Live

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
Mitt Romney

Government, Making, Spending

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Women, Men, Romantic

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

Him, Times, Question

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda

Yourself, Laugh, Doubt

Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily Dickinson

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
Mitch Daniels

Future, Failure, American

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace

Wise, Begin, Venture

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
Jay-Z

Done, America, Leader

The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Euripides

Helpless, Cleverness

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Lord Byron

Endurance, Prolonged

Fortune favours the bold.
Virgil

Fortune, Favours

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth

Freedom, Down, Free

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
Simon Sinek

Dreams, Reality, May

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
Charles Stanley

Voice, Witness, Timid

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
Ovid

Best, Adventurer, Succeeds

Venus favors the bold.
Ovid

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
Ovid

Against, Daring, Unsafe

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Louis D. Brandeis

Light, Reason, Minds

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Aeschylus

Boast, Beside, Hen

A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.
Paul Ryan

Win, America, Moral

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes

Nothing, Why, Adventure

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
Herodotus

Best, Everything, Him

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