Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tags: act, acting, actor, actors, adage, adages, animal, animals, aphorism, aphorisms

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Tim Fargo

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Tim Fargo

Tags: afraid, agitation, alarm, angst, anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, bold, boldness, confidence

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tags: aggravating, annoy, annoying, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, aplomb, assertive, assertiveness

Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change.

Amit Kalantri

Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change.

Amit Kalantri

Tags: adverse, adversity, amit kalantri, boldness, change, changes, courage, courageous, during the change, exam

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage

Constance Friday

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage

Constance Friday

Tags: audacity, bold, boldness, challenge, confront, courage, express, expression, expression of true feelings, fight

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

Michael Bassey Johnson

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Tags: achievement, believe and achieve, boldness, breakthrough, constellation, courage, courageous, daredevil, devil, doing exploits

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.

Janna Cachola

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.

Janna Cachola

Tags: art, boldness, boss lady, business, confidence, confident, create, creativity, develop, fearless

About Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.