Top 200 Boldness Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Only those who dare may fly.”

— Luis Sepúlveda

152. “You don’t need directions, just point yourself to the top and go!”

— Dwayne Johnson

153. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”

— Audre Lorde

154. “Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”

— Neil Gaiman

155. “But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.”

— Francis Chan

156. “If people aren’t calling you crazy, you aren’t thinking big enough.”

— Richard Branson

157. “The road to success is not a path you find, but a trail you blaze.”

— Robert Breault

158. “She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius- and she would not be afraid.”

— Sarah J. Maas

159. “I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.”

— Richard Branson

160. “Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.”

— Seth Godin

161. “Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.”

— Amy Jo Martin

162. “The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.”

— Joe Girard

163. “Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.”

— Michael Josephson

164. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

— J.M. Barrie

165. “The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe strongly enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.”

— Bob Ross

166. “I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.”

— Calamity Jane

167. “That’s what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.”

— Brené Brown

168. “The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.”

— Christopher Hitchens

169. “Don’t waste your life believing you can’t.”

— Jack Canfield

170. “Baby you’re a firework, come on, let your colors burst!!”

— Katy Perry

171. “Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.”

— Taylor Swift

172. “Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized.”

— Richard Branson

173. “It’s not in the dreaming, it’s in the doing.”

— Mark Cuban

174. “The doors will be opened to those who are bold enough to knock.”

— Tony Gaskins

175. “The future awaits those with the courage to create it.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus

176. “Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...”

— Timothy Leary

177. “If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you’ll be waiting till the day you die.”

— Mark Batterson

178. “You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone – profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.”

— Danielle LaPorte

179. “Tell them that as soon as I can walk I’m going to fly!”

— Bessie Coleman

180. “No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.”

— William Whiting Borden

181. “Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

182. “Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

183. “You have to act and act now.”

— Larry Ellison

184. “I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many. I don’t feel there is anything I can’t do if I want to.”

— Evel Knievel

185. “The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.”

— Brian Tracy

186. “Don’t let others define you. Don’t let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.”

— Michael Josephson

187. “It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you’re too well behaved and don’t want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That’s what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

188. “If you’re afraid of failing you won’t get very far.”

— Steve Jobs

189. “Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.”

— Phil Knight

190. “You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”

— Isadora Duncan

191. “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.”

— C. JoyBell C.

192. “We must dare to invent the future.”

— Thomas Sankara

193. “Be yourself. Unapologetically.”

— Kesha

194. “The biggest risk of all is not taking one.”

— Mellody Hobson

195. “I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

— Madonna

196. “I want to own the New York Jets, that’s what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

197. “If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.”

— Robert Collier

198. “Nothing happens until I make it happen.”

— Scott Wilson

199. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”

— Joe Namath

200. “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”

— Elizabeth Kenny