Change navbar text color Bootstrap

Make it the following:

.nav.navbar-nav.navbar-right li a {
    color: blue;
}

The above will target the specific links, which is what you want, versus styling the entire list blue, which is what you were initially doing. Here is a JsFiddle.

The other way would be creating another class and implementing it like so:

HTML

<li><a href="#" class="color-me"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-list-alt"></span> R&eacute;sum&eacute;</a></li>

CSS

.color-me{
    color:blue;
}

Also demonstrated in this JsFiddle

As of bootstrap 4, the answer is to simply set navbar-dark in the nav element, which will set the text and links to a light theme .

<nav class="navbar navbar-dark">