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  • Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness. -- Steven Furtick
  • Fortune favors the audacious. -- Desiderius Erasmus
  • I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. -- Glenda Jackson
  • If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. -- Alphonse Karr
  • I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are. -- James Dobson
  • It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary. -- Sonia Johnson
  • The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals. -- Jeff Buckley
  • Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself. -- Debbie Ford
  • Think so big, so audacious that people will think you are crazy. -- Naveen Jain
  • I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People who walk in audacious faith don't stop and pray. Audacious faith teaches us to push and pray. -- Steven Furtick
  • I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world. -- Herman Melville
  • I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly. -- Marie Antoinette
  • We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything. -- Maurice de Saxe
  • You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears. -- Winston Churchill
  • The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service -- Mark Vonnegut
  • My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work. -- Oscar Niemeyer
  • Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness. -- Therese of Lisieux
  • Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating. You do the natural. Trust God for the super. -- Steven Furtick
  • I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes. -- P. T. Barnum
  • The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil. -- Emily Dickinson
  • Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself. -- Seth Godin
  • I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world. -- Martin Amis
  • I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious. -- Andy Grammer
  • I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody. -- Azzedine Alaia
  • It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know. -- Shea Hembrey
  • When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious. -- Tony Bates
  • In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. -- Jules Verne
  • We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success. -- Pauline Marois
  • One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off. -- Fred Wilson
  • I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman. -- Edie Campbell
  • I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. -- Camille Paglia
  • There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television. -- Sigourney Weaver
  • My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig. -- Cory Booker
  • When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million. -- George Allen
  • The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. -- Jules Verne
  • Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book. -- Jess Walter
  • Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. -- Douglas Wilder
  • When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure. -- John Battelle
  • It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor. -- Roxane Gay
  • Fortune favours the audacious. -- Desiderius Erasmus
  • Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious. -- George Meredith
  • People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals. -- James C. Collins
  • Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God! -- William Rounseville Alger
  • You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan. -- Joe Biden
  • Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction. -- Astro Teller
  • Saw #"? Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending. -- M. Night Shyamalan
  • My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady... -- Isak Dinesen
  • Go wild and let go. Usually the most audacious ideas are the ones that get noticed. -- Brian Wong
  • To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp. -- Sarah Lewis
  • It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing. -- Dan Winters
  • To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far. -- Jean Cocteau
  • The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare. -- Alexis Carrel
  • Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end. -- Carl von Clausewitz
  • Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. -- Juvenal
  • In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. -- William Shakespeare
  • Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty. -- Michael Ventura
  • Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel. -- J.D. Greear
  • Out of the void and vastness of the cosmos, life emerges; audacious, improbable. You and I are here. No other miracle is needed. -- John Mark Green
  • Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different. -- Brian Johnson
  • Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition. -- Mohammed Arkoun
  • In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations. -- Ronald Reagan
  • True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself. -- Debbie Ford
  • The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history. -- Bernard Brodie
  • Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit"?may the hair on his toes never fall out! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You can call it what you like, categorize it, vivisect it, qualify, quantify, or dismiss it, and none of it will make grace anything other than precisely what grace is: audacious, unwarranted, and unlimited. -- Cathleen Falsani
  • Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions. -- Michelle Huneven
  • The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.' -- George Lois
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