Voltaire Quotes

I don’t care how honest a man is. If he is timid, he is no good.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

You just go on your nerve.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I wish I was more adventurous.

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Caution. Caution is nothing but cowardice!

There never was a woman bolder than I. I have unbridled audacity.

[It] is better to live one single day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.

Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

I'm here to let everyone know I'm taking bigger fights and I'm not afraid on taking the bigger challenges.

I'm not afraid to take big shots. I'm not afraid to take any type of shots.