Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

You must play boldly to win.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

There is always safety in valor.

I need guys who are dangerous to go out and have my best performance.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

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

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

Boldness in itself is genius.

If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Boldness be my friend.

Fortune favors the audacious.

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I'll take any risk there is.

Temerity is not always successful.

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

There's nothing I won't attempt.

You can't test courage cautiously.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.