Rashness Quotes

Rashness Quote of the day

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

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

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

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

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

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

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

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.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

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.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.