Pastoral Resources

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.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

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

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

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

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.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal 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.

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.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

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.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

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

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.