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Quotes About Audacity

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Ambition and audacity show themselves also after having passed through thousands of difficulties and having overcome them all.
~ Yoritomo-Tashi
Pensate che l'amore sia una colpa?" le disse. Lei non rispose, e lui le chiese ancora: "Oppure non vi ponete questo interrogativo, perché non temete il castigo del Buddha?" [...] "Non c'è pericolo che diventi un incendio?" disse la donna con un'espressione scherzosa negli occhi vivaci. "Certo che diventerà un incendio, ogni vero amore lo diventa", rispose con audacia l'impulsivo Haruie.
~ Yukio Mishima
True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression of yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself. It tathat your presence on this earth matters.
~ Debbie Ford
The greatest concentration of recorded experience and observation came out of the thirty-year span between 1860 and 1890—the period covered by this book. It was an incredible era of violence, greed, audacity, sentimentality, undirected exuberance, and an almost reverential attitude
~ Dee Brown
To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Come and have a go if you think your hard enough Tanith Low
~ Derek Landy
Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough.
~ Derek Landy
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
~ Georges Danton
Kiss the fattest part of my ass
~ Jen Lancaster
I just wanna see what I can get away with.
~ Jen Sincero
Faith is having the audacity to believe in the not-yet seen.
~ Jen Sincero
Since they dared, I too will dare.
~ Émile Zola
Cet audacieux dont on s'est moqué, a des procédés fort sages, et si ses oeuvres ont un aspect particulier, elles ne le doivent qu'à la façon toute personnelle dont il aperçoit et traduit les objets.
~ Émile Zola
The main requirements seem to be: audacity and a joy in defiance; an iron will; a fanatical conviction that he is in possession of the one and only truth; faith in his destiny and luck; a capacity for passionate hatred; contempt for the present; a cunning estimate of human nature;
~ Eric Hoffer
Those who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. It is a device to camouflage their shortcomings. For when we fail in attempting the possible, the blame is solely ours; but when we fail in attempting the impossible, we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task. There is less risk in being discredited when trying the impossible than when trying the possible. It is thus that failure in everyday affairs often breeds an extravagant audacity. One
~ Eric Hoffer
Those who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. It is a device to camouflage their shortcomings. For when we fail in attempting the possible, the blame is solely ours; but when we fail in attempting the impossible, we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task. There is less risk in being discredited when trying the impossible than when trying the possible. It is thus that failure in everyday affairs often breeds an extravagant audacity.
~ Eric Hoffer
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds, Laughing with strength, Charging down on the past, Glorious and conquering, Destroyer, builder, Invincible pith and marrow of the world, An old world remaking, Whirling into the no-world of all-colored light.
~ Amy Lowell
Le despescuezo el pato, me le como los huevos y le incendio el nido.
~ Andrés Caicedo
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.
~ Aubrey Plaza
I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to.
~ Steven Berkoff
Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...
~ Roald Dahl