Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace! http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8dscs10.txt <br class="br">We must dare, dare again, always dare! <br class="br">Georges Danton, speech, Assemblée legislative, Paris (1792-09-02), reported in Le Moniteur (1792-09-04) <br class="br">Misattributed
“Audacity, then again audacity, always audacity and the Fatherland will be saved!”
Georges Danton (1759–1794) French revolutionary
De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace et la Patrie sera sauvée!
Speech, Assemblée legislative, Paris (1792-09-02), reported in Le Moniteur (1792-09-04)
“Success is the child of audacity.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
The Rise of Iskander ch. 4 (1833).
Books
“There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.”
Source: Van Darkholme TDNコスギ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXsTOpysLNI <br class="br">Source: Turn Coat
“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.”
Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor.
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 63
Variant translation: "Valour grows by daring, fear by holding back."
Sentences
“The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Telegram to President John F. Kennedy (16 June 1963)
Context: We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.”
Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist
Source: The Invention of Wings
“As age increases, audacity leaks out and caution comes in.”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
p. 90. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n121/mode/1up <br class="br"> Records (1919) https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n0/mode/1up
“Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.”
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) French writer
La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
During the French Revolution; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.
“Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill.”
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
4.
The Law
Context: Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
