Quotes About Foolhardiness

Either brave or stupid, Rachel thought. Of course, everything brave was also stupid. Sadly the same could not be said of the reverse.

I'm either really, really brave or really, really stupid.

Newt shook his head, his face a mixture of anger and awe. "What you did was half brave and half bloody stupid. Seems like you're pretty good at that.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.

Only fools charge head without knowing what lies in wait. – Scourge

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside can seem more like a constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others because they reside in a far too private chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily to travel off, but often the opposite, to have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe, even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.

I'd rather be a fool than afraid.

The general who leads in the front of battle is a fool.

The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists.

Julie smiled a tight little smile and shook her head at her own foolhardiness. But I did it because I love him, she told herself. I love him still. God help me. So this is how it feels to have your break...

If you're a foolhardy, braggadocio male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.

Wanting to emulate the big killings of his brothers, he was tempted again and again into foolhardy ventures.

Just because a blindfolded drunk can cross Westheimer Road unharmed in the middle of traffic once doesn't mean he can do it again, Hirs said.

So my foolhardiness has produced the correct strategy, Count?" "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?

Every soldier knew that courage and foolhardiness were close companions in some situations,

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.