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Quotes About Audacity

Great Heart went boldly forward,
~ Helen L. Taylor
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
The almost as familiar chutzpah has been drolly defined as 'the quality shown by the man who murders his mother and father, then asks the judge to forgive a poor orphan
~ Henry Hitchings
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck's nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: "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.
~ Henry Kissinger
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.
~ Henry Kissinger
Porque a mera repetição do que é familiar conduz à estagnação, não é pouca a audácia exigida.
~ Henry Kissinger
learned that you can get away with a lot of shit if you just do it like it's all you knew how to do.
~ Henry Rollins
The Russian proletariat found its revolutionary audacity not only in itself. Its very position as minority of the nation suggests that it could not have given its struggle a sufficient scope—certainly not enough to take its place at the head of the state—if it had not found a mighty support in the thick of the people. Such a support was guaranteed to it by the agrarian problem.
~ Leon Trotsky
Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.
~ Lev Grossman
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
~ Jean Cocteau
Le tact dans l'audace, c'est de savoir jusqu'où on peut aller trop loin.
~ Jean Cocteau
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
France's brilliant general Maurice de Saxe displayed audacious courage at twelve and commanded a regiment by seventeen
~ Tom Reiss
It is better to ask for forgiveness then permission.
~ Tucker Max
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
~ Walt Whitman
Art is what you can get away with.
~ Andy Warhol
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
~ Damien Hirst
There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad."
~ David Copperfield
Art is what you get away with
~ Andy Warhol
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
~ William Shakespeare
Boldness be my friend.
~ William Shakespeare
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.
~ William Shakespeare
O, what men dare do!
~ William Shakespeare