Top 200 Boldness Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”

— Bear Grylls

52. “Who’s gonna dare to be great?”

— Muhammad Ali

53. “Don’t be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.”

— Robert Noyce

54. “Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear – it means we refuse to be overcome by it.”

— Steven Furtick

55. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. “What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

57. “You’re already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

— Steve Jobs

58. “Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.”

— Bill Shankly

59. “Be bold, be courageous, be your best.”

— Gabrielle Giffords

60. “Be bold – and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

— Basil King

61. “It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.”

— Grace Murray Hopper

62. “Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.”

— Dale Carnegie

63. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

— Jane Austen

64. “Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.”

— Rick Riordan

65. “The only way to do it is to do it.”

— Merce Cunningham

66. “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

67. “Take the risk of thinking for yourself.”

— Christopher Hitchens

68. “Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

69. “Let’s be clear, I’m a strong woman.”

— Bethenny Frankel

70. “Don’t be afraid to ask the ‘dumb’ question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!”

— Sheryl Sandberg

71. “And then I am going to rattle the stars.”

— Sarah J. Maas

72. “Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.”

— Steven Pressfield

73. “You can’t test courage cautiously.”

— Annie Dillard

74. “It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.”

— Richard Branson

75. “One step in the right direction is better than a hundred years of thinking about it.”

— T. Harv Eker

76. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”

— Tina Fey

77. “A scared world needs a fearless church.”

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

78. “I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubble gum.”

— Roddy Piper

79. “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

— Muhammad Ali

80. “If you don’t make bold moves, the world doesn’t move forward.”

— Richard Branson

81. “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”

— Isaac Newton

82. “Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.”

— Robert Greene

83. “Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.”

— Douglas Horton

84. “No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don’t wait for someone else.”

— Madonna

85. “Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

86. “Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

87. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

88. “Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality.”

— Jared Leto

89. “Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.”

— Brian Tracy

90. “I am the Lizard King, I can do anything!”

— Jim Morrison

91. “You can’t get anywhere flying under the radar.”

— Grant Cardone

92. “Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.”

— Richard Branson

93. “Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

— Steve Jobs

94. “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.”

— Dave Barry

95. “Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.”

— Marcus Luttrell

96. “In case of doubt, attack.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

97. “Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.”

— Tony Robbins

98. “Push your boundaries, that’s what they’re there for.”

— Colleen Hoover

99. “The cowards never started and the weak died along the way – that leaves us.”

— Phil Knight

100. “If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”

— Neil Gaiman