Best 74 quotes in «audacity quotes» category

Your level of audacity affects how well they perceive your idea.   Audacity in asking means that you ask for what you actually want. When you are in the heat of the conversation, and things are getting real, and the yes and no affects your bank account, you will sometimes feel a temptation to be safe, rather than... sorry.   What a bullshit phrase, by the way. I’d rather die in the pursuit of my peak potential, than live forever in a mediocre, average way.” Excerpt From: “Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One On One.

Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.]

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No.

Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

I don't want to call it audacity, it's too good a term, to appoint Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as attorney general should damn well be respectful of John Lewis.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.

Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.

Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can also be extremely creative and has the audacity to musically understand all that she is doing.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

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

No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

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.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

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.

To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

Do not be afraid of that which should be afraid of you

At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough.