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Quotes About Audacity

Só às crianças e aos loucos perdoamos que sejam francos connosco: os outros, caso tenham a audácia de os imitar, arrepender-se-ão mais cedo ou mais tarde de o terem feito.
~ E.M. Cioran
It was Raffles I loved. It was not the dark life we led together, still less its base rewards; it was the man himself, his gayety, his humor, his dazzling audacity, his incomparable courage and resource. And a very horror of turning to him again in mere need of greed set the seal on my first angry resolution. But the anger was soon gone out of me, and when at length Raffles bridged the gap by coming to me, I rose to greet him almost with a shout.
~ E.W. Hornung
How over that same door was likewise writ,Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold.
~ Edmund Spenser
this particular category of asshole compounds temerity with obliviousness.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
I piss on you from a considerable height.
~ Edward Abbey
Dare to be wise. (Sapere Aude)
~ Anonymous
One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.
~ Fred Wilson
People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know. Saucy. Doing his own thing.
~ Kathy Burke
You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.
~ Warren Littlefield
I like pushing boundaries.
~ Lady Gaga
I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.
~ Ann Robinson
I don't care about making a fool of myself at all.
~ Louis Walsh
Well right about that time, people, A fur trapper Who was strictly from commercial (Strictly Commershil) Had the unmedicated audacity to jump up from behind my igyaloo (Peek-a-Boo Woo-ooo-ooo) And he started in to whippin' on my fav'rite baby seal With a lead-filled snow shoe . . .
~ Frank Zappa
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
~ Samantha Bee
I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
~ Sally Mann
I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.
~ Katie McGrath
Boldness is sexy, especially when it's done with a wink.
~ Matthew Hussey
If you've got plenty of nerve, you're all set, because then you're entitled to do practically anything at all, you've got the majority on your side, and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
David has nothing to lose, and because he has nothing to lose, he has the freedom to thumb his nose at the rules set by others. That's how people with brains a
~ Malcolm Gladwell
He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams!
~ Israelmore Ayivor
the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
~ William Hazlitt
The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Confidence matters a lot than what you want to say, if you are not bold enough.
~ Auliq Ice
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