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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. -- Publilius Syrus
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. -- Georges Danton
Success is the child of audacity. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The first quality that is needed is audacity. -- Winston Churchill
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. -- John Dewey
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. -- Jean Cocteau
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys. -- Graham Nash
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. -- Pliny the Elder
These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there. -- Vincent Bugliosi
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal. -- Rush Limbaugh
I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat. -- Dave Grohl
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. -- Georges Danton
Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity. -- Georges Danton
Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. -- Paulo Coelho
The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act. -- Steven Furtick
Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. -- Anthony Trollope
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.] -- Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps' -- Steven Furtick
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. -- Sandra Bernhard
Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it. -- Sufjan Stevens
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. -- Samuel Johnson
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid. -- Robert Greene
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them. -- Walter Lippmann
In an election, one needs both hope and audacity. -- Francois Hollande
What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity. -- Twyla Tharp
The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece. -- Gregg Allman
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. -- Philip Roth
I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else? -- Alexandra Cassavetes
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends. -- David Douglas Duncan
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel. -- Daniel H. Wilson
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve. -- Malcolm X
When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now? -- Ted Cruz
It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable. -- Issa Rae
Fear created gods; audacity created kings. -- Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
audacity is of all qualities the most youthful. -- Ellen Glasgow
There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. -- Jim Butcher
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity. -- Tacitus
In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity. -- George S. Patton
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I had no roof I made audacity my roof. -- Robert Pinsky
We must err , do so on the side of audacity -- Sue Monk Kidd
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life. -- Gertrude Stein
The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization. -- Lee Daniels
Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. -- Wes Fesler
The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is? -- Laini Taylor
To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform. -- Steven Furtick
Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting. -- Winston Churchill
We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.' -- David Platt
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage. -- Julia Cameron
Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa! -- Stephen Keshi
Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity -- Carl von Clausewitz
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. -- Honore de Balzac
Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! -- Barack Obama
There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter. -- George Watsky
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In our breath lies not only the gift of life, but also the basis of all resolutions, ideas, and infinite audacity. -- Dr. Mpalyenkana
There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again. -- Edward Hirsch
There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. -- Ted Nugent
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope. -- Barack Obama
Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West! -- Jonathan Raban
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. -- Otto von Bismarck
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. -- Otto von Bismarck
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair? -- Dick Gregory
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. -- Victor Hugo
No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family. -- Nancy Northup
The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I don't want to call it audacity, it's too good a term, to appoint Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as attorney general should damn well be respectful of John Lewis. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster. -- Josh Kilmer-Purcell
All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be. -- Jimmy Carr
We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die. -- Bill Maris
It takes great courage to accept the constant changes of the emotions within ourselves, and even more audacity to express them whenever they occur and without filter or delay. -- Nityananda Das
Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No." -- David Platt
Because there are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet And I have the audacity to think I matter I know it's a lie but I prefer it to the alternative -- George Watsky
And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce -- Barbara T. Cerny
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him? -- Malcolm X
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion. -- Anton Chekhov
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant. -- Hippocrates
The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress. -- Isocrates

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