Quotes About Rashness

#1. God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Mark Buchanan

#2. Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

John Calvin

#3. Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.

George R R Martin

#5. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

#6. We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

Samuel Johnson

#7. The poor guy," she said, and this was remorse over her savage speed and rashness as well as pity for this boy, haunting the mouth of an alley with that toy of swift decisions.

Saul Bellow

#8. Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery.

Euripides

#9. Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.

Francis Quarles

#10. Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Aaron Swartz

#11. I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#13. Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Duke Of Wellington

#14. When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

#16. Assaulted as I am by ambition, covetousness, rashness and superstition, and having such enemies to life as that within me, should I start wondering about the motions of the Universe?

Michel De Montaigne

#17. I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#18. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

Abraham Lincoln

#19. I've seen more institutions damaged by too much caution than by rashness, though I've seen both.

Peter F. Drucker

#20. True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Miguel De Cervantes

#21. A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Jimmy Carter

#22. A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

Lord Chesterfield

#23. Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24. There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Joe Abercrombie

#25. Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Henry George Bohn

#26. I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.

Raymond E. Feist

#27. The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

Sextus Empiricus

#28. Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#29. Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?

Jane Austen

#30. Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

Thomas Hobbes

#31. Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it
let us know,
Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will

William Shakespeare

#32. Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#33. Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#34. Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

Poul Anderson

#35. Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Livy

#36. Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel De Cervantes

#37. He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone; nor did the King. They were too angry to think clearly. But much evil came of their rashness in the end. Suddenly

C.S. Lewis

#38. Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#39. Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Alain-Rene Lesage

#40. It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Cass Gilbert

#41. Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it ...

Pope Pius IV

#42. None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#43. To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Roger Ascham