Top 100 Quotes About Audacious

#1. I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#2. 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

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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#5. It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.

Lloyd C. Douglas

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#6. Think so big, so audacious that people will think you are crazy.

Naveen Jain

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#7. For he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.

Stefan Grabinski

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#8. brilliant and audacious as ever - a beat poet of paranoia. He

Jon Ronson

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#9. I was going to get smart, and I was going to change the world. I was audacious enough to believe it, too. Fortunately it takes that kind of audacity to accomplish anything significant.

Jamie Sedgwick

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#10. To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Sarah Lewis

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#11. Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.

Robert Schumann

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#12. He looked like a walking, talking billboard for deliciously irresponsible behavior and a treasure trove of regrettable decisions.

Alexi Lawless

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#13. It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers.

Mark Batterson

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#14. Fortune favours the audacious.

Desiderius Erasmus

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#15. Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.
Heavens no, I'm spying on people," Virginia responded unrepentantly.
-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset

Lesley M.M. Blume

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#16. 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

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#17. I like audacious ideas.

Gregory Benford

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#18. My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady ...

Isak Dinesen

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#19. 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

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#20. If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Alphonse Karr

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#21. 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

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#22. When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Garry Trudeau

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#23. If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.

Bob Ehrlich

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#24. Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.

Eduardo Galeano

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#25. 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

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#26. 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

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#27. It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

Dan Winters

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#28. Go wild and let go. Usually the most audacious ideas are the ones that get noticed.

Brian Wong

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#29. 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

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#30. 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

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#31. It's no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their lives. They're audacious enough to think that they're not just an ordinary player.

Sean Patrick

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#32. 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

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#33. It was a new idea, my first real leaf. Just like every other audacious seedling in the world, I would make it up as I went along.

Hope Jahren

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#34. [The imagination] ... inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and ... a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.

Marsilio Ficino

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#35. Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.

Astro Teller

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#36. 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

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#37. It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Sonia Johnson

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#38. 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

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#39. Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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#40. God searches for us, no matter what dark place we're in or what door we're behind. He hears our impossible, audacious prayers for ourselves and others. And He delights in forgiving us and then answering those prayers by letting us return home to Him.

Bob Goff

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#41. Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

Juvenal

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#42. Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

Honore De Balzac

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#43. 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.

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#44. As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women - simply because of a marketing decision. Am I truly less talented, less audacious, less erudite, less brave than my more quote-unquote literary colleagues?

Jillian Medoff

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#45. Be as audacious
As you wish.
By all means look to the heavens.

Scott Hastie

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#46. 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

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#47. 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

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#48. 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

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#49. I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Glenda Jackson

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#50. Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

George Meredith

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#51. 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

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#52. People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.

James C. Collins

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#53. Fortune favors the audacious.

Desiderius Erasmus

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#54. It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

Shea Hembrey

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#55. Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

M. Night Shyamalan

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#56. My #1 rule is write like no one is ever going to read it. Why? Because it gives you permission to be as audacious as you want.

Tosca Lee

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#57. I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

Sylvester Stallone

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#58. The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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#59. I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something as audacious as a solo percussion record with solo drumming music on it. There better be a reason behind it.

Glenn Kotche

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#60. A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.

Che Guevara

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#61. I admit that it is audacious," said Scaramouche. "But at your time of life you should have learnt that in this world nothing succeeds like audacity.

Rafael Sabatini

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#62. 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

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#63. I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

Russell Brand

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#64. Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Carl Von Clausewitz

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#65. I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.

Azzedine Alaia

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#66. Welch had given his aircraft manufacturing division a stretch goal of reducing errors by 70 percent, an objective so audacious the only way to go about it was to change nearly everything about (a) how workers were trained, (b) which workers were hired, and (c) how the factory ran.

Charles Duhigg

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#67. 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

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#68. When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious.

Tony Bates

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#69. I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?

Andy Warhol

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#70. Edward Snowden made an audacious claim: I, sitting at my desk, could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.

Glenn Greenwald

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#71. The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.

Alfred H. Barr Jr.

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#72. 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

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#73. O crooked paths! Woe to the audacious soul, which hoped, by forsaking Thee, to gain some better thing!

Augustine Of Hippo

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#74. 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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#75. Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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#76. I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.

Andy Grammer

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#77. 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

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#78. Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious?

Darin Strauss

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#79. 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

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#80. To take so much punctuation in one hit initially sounds audacious, but perhaps the thief thought no one would notice as most readers never get that far into Ulysses - you will recall the theft of chapter sixty-two from Moby-Dick, where no one noticed?

Jasper Fforde

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#81. 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

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#82. To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

Jean Cocteau

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#83. Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

James Dobson

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#84. 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

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#85. 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

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#86. 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

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#87. When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.

Geoffrey Wood

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#88. 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

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#89. 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

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#90. 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

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#91. 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

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#92. 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

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#93. You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.

Joe Biden

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#94. The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking ... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

Alexis Carrel

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#95. How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

William Rounseville Alger

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#96. 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

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#97. Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#98. I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

William Shakespeare

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#99. The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.

Martin O'Malley

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#100. No matter how stupid, how pointless, how painful my current situation was, as I listened to Mixtape every week I couldn't deny the love I still felt for that reckless, audacious fool who was still me, if only in my mind.

Piper Kerman

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