Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

You can't test courage cautiously.

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

I don’t care how honest a man is. If he is timid, he is no good.

Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

You can't play scared.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Boldness be my friend.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

I'm fearless, to a degree.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films.

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Caution. Caution is nothing but cowardice!

Choose bravery but not bravado.

Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't.