quotes about Audacity
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
-- Abraham Joshua HeschelSource : Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.
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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?
-- Brian EvensonSource : Brian Evenson (2009). “Fugue State”, Coffee House Pr
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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.
-- Dave Grohl -
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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."
-- David Platt -
audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
-- Francois Hollande -
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Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
-- Georges Danton -
The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.
-- Jacqueline NovogratzSource : "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
-- Jean Cocteau -
There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.
-- Jim Butcher -
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All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.
-- Jimmy Carr -
I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!
-- Jonathan Raban -
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
-- Julia Cameron -
To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.
-- Jürgen Moltmann -
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The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?
-- Laini Taylor -
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
-- Otto von Bismarck -
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 -
Fear created gods; audacity created kings.
-- Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon -
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Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.]
-- Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon -
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
-- Publilius Syrus -
When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.
-- Robert PinskySource : Robert Pinsky (2015). “Jersey Rain: Poems”, p.5, Macmillan
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There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
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Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'
-- Steven Furtick -
If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.
-- Steven Furtick -
The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.
-- Steven Furtick -
We must err , do so on the side of audacity
-- Sue Monk Kidd -
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Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about homosexuality that God feels about heterosexuality. Now you might say, ‘Whoa, slow down. You move too fast. How could you have the audacity, the temerity, to speak on behalf of God?’ Exactly, that’s an excellent point and I pray that you remember it.
-- Ted Alexandro -
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.
-- Tiffanie DeBartoloSource : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.140, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.
-- Winston Churchill -
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.
-- Nancy Northup -
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Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!
-- Stephen Keshi -
I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.
-- Lee DanielsSource : "Lee Daniels Makes It Personal". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.