Top 100 Quotes About Audacity: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Audacity

#1. If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.

#2. 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

#3. A man ought to be able to be carried away by his feelings, he ought to be able to be mad, to make mistakes, to suffer! A woman will forgive you audacity and insolence, but she will never forgive your reasonableness!

Anton Chekhov

#4. The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.

Steven Furtick

#5. In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

Francois Hollande

#6. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.

Scott Lynch

#7. I didn't argue. Anybody who that drove a Hummer and carried a Glock, let alone had the audacity to wear white after Labor Day, wasn't to be trifled with.

Cheryl Sterling

#8. The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Winston Churchill

#9. Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.

Malcolm X

#10. 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

#11. Audacity is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid daring.

Mike Cernovich

#12. 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

#13. Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Tacitus

#14. 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

#15. With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. The audacity of youth reckons upon what it fancies an unlimited time at its disposal; but a millionaire has unlimited means in his hand - which is better. One's time on earth is an uncertain quantity, but about the long reach of millions there is no doubt.

Joseph Conrad

#17. Have a peculiar passion, audacity and boldness that see farther and further into the outer space.

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity.

Bill O'Reilly

#19. 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

#20. Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

Carl Von Clausewitz

#21. To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

Jurgen Moltmann

#22. 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

#23. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

#24. 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

#25. Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Che Guevara

#26. Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

Stephen Keshi

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

Robert A. Heinlein

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world.

Oliver Sacks

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.

Elena Ferrante

#45. 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

#46. The politicians and the experts, who possess neither audacity nor imagination, reject every radical solution. They always prefer little solutions, tactical or rigged, compromises that please an electorate with cold feet, always respecting the status quo.

Guillaume Faye

#47. 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

#48. His smile had an attractive quality, the smile of a man of the world who used it, not to cover his words, but to stress the audacity of expressing a sincere emotion.

Ayn Rand

#49. In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.

George S. Patton

#50. 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

#51. But what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?

Louisa May Alcott

#52. 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

#53. Her own fearless audacity had surprised her, though she knew she had been born for more than her life had asked of her thus far.

Donna Russo Morin

#54. He tried to kill himself in grade ten, when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to tell him 'Get over it'. As if depression is something that can be remedied by any of the contents in a first aid-kit.

Shane L. Koyczan

#55. Audacity made kings, and it was time to reclaim his crown.

Kresley Cole

#56. Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Georges Jacques Danton

#57. We will have a reckoning with our culture and religion, with military rulers and Islamists - two sides of one coin. Such a reckoning is essentially a feminist one. And it is what will eventually free us. Women - our rage, our tenacity, our daring and audacity - will free our countries.

Mona Eltahawy

#58. I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#59. Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#60. Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Jean Cocteau

#61. 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

#62. Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

Steven Furtick

#63. When i heard on the radio that the New York Panthers had been busted, i was furious. The so-called conspiracy charges were so stupid that even a fool could see through them. The police actually had the audacity to charge them with plotting to blow up the flowers in the Botanical Garden.

Assata Shakur

#64. There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

Jim Butcher

#65. Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

#66. Do not be angry with the audacity of a desperate and drowning man for making a last effort to save himself from perdition.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#67. 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

#68. We had become a race of eccentrics and openly declared an array of singular whims and suspicions, at least while daylight allowed this audacity.

Thomas Ligotti

#69. The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#70. Regarding sleep, this sinister adventure of each night, one could say that people fall asleep daily with an audacity that would be incomprehensible if we didn't know that it results from their being oblivious of danger.

Charles Baudelaire

#71. 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

#72. Today fraudulent research and corruption are sadly becoming more commonplace. The case of Poul Thorsen, for example, stands out in terms of shameless audacity - stealing grant money meant for autism research.

James Ottar Grundvig

#73. They have been trapped by their own inventiveness and audacity. And they must pay with their lives.

Alan Lightman

#74. [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

#75. Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

Honore De Balzac

#76. Get a new dress. One that shows a lot of skin. Short. Strapless. Maybe a push-up bra too." He actually had the audacity to do a quick assessment of my chest. "Eh, maybe not. But definitely some high heels.

Richelle Mead

#77. Audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

Ellen Glasgow

#78. I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No one would have the audacity to die when you are doctoring them.

Elizabeth Peters

#79. 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

#80. The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

Laini Taylor

#81. audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles.

Keith Ferrazzi

#82. 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

#83. There are 7 billion 47 million people on this planet and i have the audacity to think I matter.

George Watsky

#84. 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

#85. Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life

Gertrude Stein

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

Paulo Coelho

#90. There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

Sandra Bernhard

#91. 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

#92. Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#93. I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

Sally Mann

#94. There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.

George Watsky

#95. 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