Top 100 Quotes About Audacity
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?
Bernadette Pajer
#4. In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her - hadn't even wanted her, truthfully - but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.
Cathleen Falsani
#5. All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?
Eliphas Levi
#6. Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
Georges Danton
#7. Then he dozed off to sleep and to dream dreams that for madness and audacity rivalled those of poppy-eaters
Jack London
#8. I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.
Lee Daniels
#9. To remain virile in the light demands the audacity of a mad ignorance: letting oneself catch fire, screaming with joy, expecting death - because of an unknown, unknowable presence; becoming love and blind light oneself, attaining the perfect incomprehension of the sun.
Georges Bataille
#10. She notices the unyielding ruthlessness of the storm; the crashing waves, the bitter sky kissing the water on the horizon, the keening laments of the sharp, cutting wind, and the relentless liquid deliverance of its somber showers. She'll never forgive the audacity of the storm's neglect.
Laura Kreitzer
#11. the cape held within its folds something of what she imagined was a quality possessed exclusively by man: some dash, some audacity, some swagger of freedom denied to woman
Anais Nin
#12. Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.
Douglas Alexander
#13. She didn't just disappear from my life - she had the audacity to die on me. And until I get Alzheimer's, I will never forget it.
Jarod Kintz
#14. Deprecatingly, fully conscious of his audacity in asking so busy a man to waste his time on a neophyte's puny effort, he begged for criticism and guidance.
W. Somerset Maugham
#15. Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#16. If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.
Steven Furtick
#17. Nothing is more inspiring than audacity in the old.
Marty Rubin
#18. Instinct and study, love and hate;
Audacity-reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's heart,
To wrestle with the angel
Art.
Herman Melville
#19. 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.
Edward Abbey
#20. What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.
Rick Warren
#21. Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man's audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty.
Maxim Gorky
#22. The title of Reverend Wright's sermon that morning was The Audacity of Hope.
Barack Obama
#23. Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
Anthony Trollope
#24. We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#25. 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
#26. Not longevity. Not peace. Not some chloroformed happiness. Not tranquility. They are all such common goals ... No. I want audacity. High color. Total independence.
Erika Robuck
#27. We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.
Liam Fox
#28. I am incensed that reality has the audacity to do some of the things it does when I CLEARLY don't want those things to happen.
Allie Brosh
#29. Barack Obama said yesterday that the economy was 'going to get worse before it gets better.' See, that's when you know the campaign is really over. Remember before the election? 'The audacity of hope!' 'Yes, we can!' 'A change we can believe in!' Now it's, 'We're all screwed.'
Jay Leno
#30. It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.
Chris Raschka
#31. Do you consider him a Christian who oppresses the wretched, who burdens the poor, who covets others' property, who makes several poor so that he may make himself rich, who rejoices in unjust gains ... and a man of this kind has the audacity to
Justin S. Holcomb
#32. Bob's talent, such as it is, consists entirely of the few unconscious charms of youth: its energy, audacity and complete inability to recognize its own shortcomings.
Meg Rosoff
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. He heard you in the chapel and gave you more time to make things better. Time to say what you needed to say, do what you needed to do. It wasn't a joke! It was divine mercy, and you blew it! You were given what billions of people beg for, and you have the audacity to be angry about it?
John Goode
#36. If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.
Jo Coudert
#37. Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.
Winston Churchill
#38. This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.
Amy Lowell
#39. All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.
Dean Koontz
#40. Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#41. 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
#43. 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
#45. 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
#46. Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?
Brian Evenson
#47. Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
Wes Fesler
#48. The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#49. You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business
that takes a lot of audacity.
Lidiya Ginzburg
#50. Isocrates: 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.
Michael Lewis
#51. 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
#52. I freeze instantly, shocked at the audacity of our party's attendees, when I hear the unmistakable sound of a zipper followed by a breathless but familiar feminine gasp of, "Oh yes!" in the darkened alcove a few feet in front of me.
K. Bromberg
#53. 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
#54. All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
Julia Cameron
#55. But I applaud your audacity. Some would call it stupidity, but I now consider myself your friend and I will call it audacity just to spare your feelings.
Robert J. Crane
#56. What the railroads lack is not opportunity but some of the managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made them great.
Harvard Business School Press
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Hope
Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us ... A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
Barack Obama
#61. The moment you have the audacity to start believing in the not-yet seen, your reality will begin to shift.
Jen Sincero
#62. What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
Twyla Tharp
#63. The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.
Gregg Allman
#64. When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL
Cheryl Strayed
#65. Jesus would be another wise man or philosopher like Socrates if it were not for three words. With the declaration of these words the message of the good news of Jesus Christ changed from "fanatical audacity", to the fantastic reality of a reconciled relationship and eternal hope. "HE IS RISEN!
Tom Barton
#66. There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.
George Watsky
#67. I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
Sally Mann
#68. Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#69. 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
#70. There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
Sandra Bernhard
#71. Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.
Paulo Coelho
#72. 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
#73. He's very high-handed. Do you know that yesterday he had the audacity to ask me to practice adoring looks while peering into a mirror because he felt I was glaring at him too often?
Jen Turano
#74. 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
#75. Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life
Gertrude Stein
#76. 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
#77. There are 7 billion 47 million people on this planet and i have the audacity to think I matter.
George Watsky
#78. Let us remain with Christ - abiding in Christ - and let us always try to be one with him. Let us follow him; let us imitate him in his movement of love, in his going forth to meet humanity. Let us go forth and open doors. Let us have the audacity to mark out new paths for proclaiming the Gospel.
Pope Francis
#79. audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles.
Keith Ferrazzi
#80. Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity
Carl Von Clausewitz
#81. This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world.
Oliver Sacks
#82. Boys popped wheelies that landed very near the men, then exercised their audacity by requesting quarters to stop. "I could scuff your shoes for nothin'," they said, "but when a quarter's
Daniel Woodrell
#83. I am incapable of carrying on a discussion to fruitful lengths. I am incapable of the audacity of being logical. I confess to you, my boy, I have not the strength to be right.
Henri Barbusse
#84. It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.
Christos Tsiolkas
#85. She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.
Toni Morrison
#86. 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
#87. So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you're at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You're going to be busy, but never forget family and friends.
Daniel Goldin
#89. Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can also be extremely creative and has the audacity to musically understand all that she is doing.
Rufus Reid
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. I really don't think anyone can blame us for wanting no part of the marriage mart if she is already the belle of the ball," Ella said. "My mother even had
the audacity to ask me earlier if I didn't think I should have a gown made like hers! Lord deliver me from the London season
Sarah MacLean
#94. Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!
Stephen Keshi
#95. Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Che Guevara
#96. For he who has the audacity to determine who should live and who should die no longer serves the law but dictates the law.
Christopher Paolini
#97. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
#98. And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.
Marcel Proust
#99. To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.
Jurgen Moltmann
