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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
We exist in a magnificent era wherein the powerful is feeble due to his ethical qualms and the feeble becomes powerful because of his boldness.
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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.
Barack Obama
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Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!
Barack Obama
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
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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 Evenson
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What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
Wes Fesler
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To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.
Jürgen Moltmann
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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
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Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
Georges Danton
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Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.
Steven Furtick
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If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.
Steven Furtick
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Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity
Carl von Clausewitz
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
Tacitus
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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
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Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!
Stephen Keshi
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
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The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.
E. Stanley Jones
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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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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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Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.
Paulo Coelho
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity.
Virtue,
when tutored,
is as calculating as vice.
Honore de Balzac
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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
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Audacity succeeds as often as it fails;
in life it has an even chance.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
Barack Obama
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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
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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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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.
Rufus Reid
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I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.
Lee Daniels
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
Ellen Glasgow
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It is often in the audacity,
in the steadfastness,
of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
Julia Cameron
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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.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Philip Roth
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
Anthony Trollope