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Maps encourage boldness. They`re like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

- Mark Jenkins

At times he could be very critical. He didn`t like prints on me. He didn`t like stripes. He didn`t like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.

- Priscilla Presley

There`s an interesting parallel between Bush (George W. Bush) and Richard Nixon. While Nixon (Richard Nixon) was clearly a superior statesman and in many ways a more intelligent politician, what they share is a kind of boldness in how they emote their insecurities. What we`re finding with George Bush, part of what`s familiar to people and that adds to his likability for many, is that there`s a commonality of deep insecurity and his handling it with a kind of bravado. What they both did is handle things with a similar certainty - certainty being the `disease of kings`.

- Sean Penn

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

- Ethel Merman

Boldness in itself is genius.

- L. Ron Hubbard

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

- Akhenaton

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for 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

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

- Jean Genet

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

- Brian Greene

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

- Alberto Bernal

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

- Alice Rossi

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.

- Alissa Clapper

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.

- Ann Armstrong

Boldness be my friend.

- William Shakespeare

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

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution

- Francis Bacon, Sr.

Boldness is a child of ignorance

- Francis Bacon, Sr.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

- John Dryden