Top 100 The Audacity Quotes
#1. The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.
Steven Furtick
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?
Laini Taylor
#28. 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
#29. There are 7 billion 47 million people on this planet and i have the audacity to think I matter.
George Watsky
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
Sandra Bernhard
#35. There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.
George Watsky
#36. The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.
Gregg Allman
#37. The moment you have the audacity to start believing in the not-yet seen, your reality will begin to shift.
Jen Sincero
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
Wes Fesler
#43. 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
#44. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. The title of Reverend Wright's sermon that morning was The Audacity of Hope.
Barack Obama
#56. 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
#57. If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.
Steven Furtick
#58. 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
#59. Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.
Douglas Alexander
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Have a peculiar passion, audacity and boldness that see farther and further into the outer space.
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity
Carl Von Clausewitz
#70. Don't cry," Samarra whispered, "Nothing ever happens to the brave.
Fatima Bhutto
#71. Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Che Guevara
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.
Robert Greene
#76. 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
#77. This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world.
Oliver Sacks
#78. 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
#79. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'
Steven Furtick
#85. 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
#87. 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
#88. [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
#89. Audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
Ellen Glasgow
#90. audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles.
Keith Ferrazzi
#91. Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life
Gertrude Stein
#92. Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.
Bhaskaryya Deka
#93. 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
#94. What the railroads lack is not opportunity but some of the managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made them great.
Harvard Business School Press
#95. Step into the marketplace with some sizzle, spice, spunk and shazam!
Catrice M. Jackson
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
