Audacity Quotes

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. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. View quote
Publilius Syrus
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. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Success is the child of audacity. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
No one has the audacity to exclaim: "I don't want to do anything!" - we are more indulgent with a murderer than with a mind emancipated from actions. View quote
Emil Cioran
Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. (Albert Einstein)
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun. View quote
Edward Abbey
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. View quote
Jimmy Carr
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. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
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. View quote
Graham Nash
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. View quote
Vincent Bugliosi
There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. View quote
Jim Butcher
In Edinburgh? I quite like the City Cafe. Because you never get served in there. And I like the idea that you can go in there for three hours and still not get your order. I think that's quite funny. And then when you say ‘Can I have some food - I'm wasting away,' they have the audacity to tut at you. When there's only four of you in there. Fuckers. They should all be shot in the face. Sorry. I'm only joking. And I'm really tired. View quote
Noel Fielding
You talk of Paine with more respect than he deserves: He is utterly incapable of comprehending his subject. He has not even a moderate portion of learning of any kind. He has learnd the instrumental part of literature, a style, and a method of disposing his ideas, without having ever made a previous preparation of Study or thinking-for the use of it. ... [Paine] possesses nothing more than what a man whose audacity makes him careless of logical consequences, and his total want of honour and morality makes indifferent as to political consequences, may very easily write. They indeed who seriously write upon a principle of levelling ought to be answerd by the Magistrate-and not by the Speculatist. View quote
Edmund Burke
I was doing press for the show and they were going to show a clip from The L Word that included a love scene of sorts between me and another character, and she had the audacity to say, 'If there are any children in the room, you might want to ask them to leave.' And my mind was blown open and I said to her, ‘If it had been a heterosexual love scene, would you have asked the same question?' I asked her on air, because I thought, it's important to ask -- it contextualizes the import of the show." My feelings were hurt and it just spoke to me of what the gay and lesbian community has to deal with on a day-to-day basis in terms of popular media. View quote
Jennifer Beals
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. (Georges Danton)
Audacity, then again audacity, always audacity and the Fatherland will be saved! View quote
Georges Danton
Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence-what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter. View quote
Orson Scott Card
A shiver goes through me when I think of the proximity of my mother and sister to this man who despises me. Will always despise me. Because I outsmarted his sadistic Hunger Games, made the Capitol look foolish, and consequently undermined his control. All I was doing was trying to keep myself and Peeta alive. Any act of rebellion was purely coincidental. But when the Capitol decrees that only one tribute can live and you have the audacity to challenge it, I guess that's a rebellion in itself. View quote
Suzanne Collins
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. View quote
Sandra Bernhard