Quotes About Audacity

I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'

You motherfucking kitties need to step the fuck off!

You're right.I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't give a fuck.

Sometimes great risks require a little bit of stupid.

Boldness in itself is genius.

L'audace, I'audace, toujours l'audace! " Remember that, gentlemen. From here on out, until we win or die in the attempt, we will aways be audacious.

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

The riddle is: How might a war end? Annihilation is one way. Joram's way. He did this, not you. You dreamed a different way. Akiva, too. You, the pair of you, you had the capacity not to hate. The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

You know you're nuts, right?" His brother should know him better than to be surprised that when he did something, he went all in. "No, I'm just that good." Although when riding a bucking animal that out-weighed a man by ten times, being a little crazy didn't hurt.

Daring is the thing for a fighting man to be remembered by.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!

In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her—hadn't even wanted her, truthfully—but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it… Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity… O their audacity!

If I believe that art can, in fact, save us, over and over again, then does it follow that I risk the audacity of believing that you might be the very one who needs my words to save your life?

People should always force themselves to do daring things.

The Cockney has one oath, and one oath only, the most indecent in the language, which he uses on any and every occasion.  Far different is the luminous and varied Western swearing, which runs to blasphemy rather than indecency.  And after all, since men will swear, I think I prefer blasphemy to indecency; there is an audacity about it, an adventurousness and defiance that is better than sheer filthiness.

Then he dozed off to sleep and to dream dreams that for madness and audacity rivaled those of poppy-eaters.

Then he dozed off to sleep and to dream dreams that for madness and audacity rivalled those of poppy-eaters

I'm going so far out on a limb here, you might as well call me a squirrel.

It's not only the audacity of the goal but also the level of commitment to the goal that counts.

Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.