Rashness Quotes

• Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Failure, Succeed, Failing

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• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Parent, Faithful, Unhappy

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• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Age, Youth

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• Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Missing, May

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• Reckless haste makes poor speed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Haste, Speed, Reckless

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• Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Humility, Understanding, Quality

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• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

  Plutarch

  Life, Success, Courage

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• Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
  [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Suits, Blind, Fortune

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• Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Sleep, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.250, Рипол Классик

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• A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Thoughtful, Compassion

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• Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Literature, Cowardice

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• It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

  Cass Gilbert

  Thinking, Ignorant, Speak

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• Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

  Henry George Bohn

  Military, Soldier, Advantage

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.305

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• Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Goes On, Littles, Too Much

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• To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

  Roger Ascham

  Skills, Shame

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• It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Done, Laziness, May

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Doe, Youth

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, James LOGAN (Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania.) (1750). “Cato Major; Or, a Treatise on Old Age ... With Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By Mr. Loggan [sic]. To which is Prefixed, the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.42

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• Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

  Livy

  Criminals, Resistance, Better Late Than Never

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• True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Cowardice, Valor

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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• When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Commitment, Power, Politics

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• We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Trying, Credit

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.377

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• Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

  Duke of Wellington

  Cowardice, Resorts

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• Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

  John Calvin

  Wise, Law, Liberty

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• Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

  Joseph Addison

  Years, Age, Merit

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.197

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• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Time, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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