Quotes About Audacity

I was the first comic in world history, so they told me, to pick fights with children.

Being a repo man requires what Milt calls "nerves of stupidity":

The audacity of the Gurus in using Muslim and Hindu names for God is noteworthy. Partly a prudent move – because going to a Muslim village and preaching about Krishna using terms completely unfamiliar would have been unwise – it is also a mark of the inclusiveness which was intrinsic to Sikhism from its outset.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Some people have more guts than brains.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

Pay no attention to the less courageous.

With audacity one can undertake anything.

All men would be cowards if they durst.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.

You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.

Her confidence is extraordinary, her impertinence unforgivable, her words terribly true.