fortune favors the bold

fortune favors the bold

proverb Courageous action is often rewarded. The phrase encourages people to do what scares them. A variation is "fortune favors the brave." I know you're nervous about asking for a raise, but keep in mind that fortune favors the bold—you'll never get anything if you don't ask for it. I decided to ask out the most popular girl in school because fortune favors the bold, right?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • teach a man to fish
  • it takes a village
  • village
  • better bend than break
  • a woman's work is never done
  • tomorrow never comes
  • casu consulto
  • best-laid plans go astray, the
  • the best-laid plans
  • the best-laid plans go astray
References in classic literature
Besides, fortune favors the bold. Don't refuse me; it is my dream!"
Organized by Asia CEO Events, this year's theme, "Fortune Favors the Bold and Tech Savvy", sought to bring together both big and small companies who are looking to expand their e-commerce platforms and services while cutting costs through E-commerce.
Organized by Asia CEO Events, this year's theme, 'Fortune Favors the Bold and Tech Savvy', sought to bring together both big and small companies who are looking to expand their e-commerce platforms and services while cutting costs through E-commerce.
There's an old saying that fortune favors the bold and this team reminds me of the great Saluki "Floorburn U" teams.
Fortune favors the bold; now is the time to embrace the future.
Fortes fortuna adiuvat: Fortune favors the bold. Let's be bold.
Fortune favors the bold! This was Rainy's first experience with water.
Fortune favors the bold. Sure, you can calculate the odds and approach the game of life conservatively--go to college, get a decent job, claw your way up slowly over the course of decades and maybe even make enough money to retire into part-time work as a big-box store greeter.
Fortune Favors the Bold: doesn't provide a bonus to Honor Point gains anymore.
There's been a sea change in the airgun market recently, and fortune favors the bold who act now.
''I'm being a little bolder this season,'' Hoffman said, ''as fortune favors the bold.''
To bust these next-level hits, you gotta have a tractor-trailer full of confidence and a firm belief in the mantra "Fortune favors the bold." Which Yuri must have been reciting when, at just 17 and not looking a day older, this youngest member of the Spliff Mode Crew moseyed into an adult beverage watering hole and left a short time later with a lovely lady twice his age.
This approach is a terrific addition to the lecture hall venues we know and love, because it encourages experimentation and supports the process of trial and error--or perhaps better said, "learning by failure." The digital world and the currents that drive it are fluid, and fortune favors the bold. We've learned to grab ideas and run with them.
Hoboken, NJ, February 09, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Though it is said that fortune favors the bold, recent economic history has demonstrated the value of understanding risk.
In real estate, fortune favors the bold. As a result, the bold often make fortunes.