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Quotes About Audacity

I was never a wallflower - I put my head on the style chopping block.
~ Boy George
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
~ Sally Kellerman
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
Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist
~ Julia Cameron
If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
~ Karin Gillespie
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 [why] they hate him?
~ Malcolm X
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
~ Charles Dickens
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
~ Anthony Trollope
When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.
~ Anthony Trollope
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
~ Barry Goldwater
You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.
~ George R. R. Martin
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
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
I don't write music for sissy ears.
~ Charles Ives
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
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
One must do the outrageous with style. With élan. With complete conviction.
~ Carolyn Jewel
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
~ Tacitus, Annals
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve
~ J.K. Rowling
Live daringly with great courage.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Wat is een held? Iemand die straffeloos onvoorzichtig is geweest.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
~ William Hazlitt
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray