Jim Butcher Quotes

I consider myself a fearless idiot.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

There's a fine line between brave and mad. But whatever I do, I go for it.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

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

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

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

I'll take any risk there is.

Temerity is not always successful.

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

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

Venus favors the bold.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Fortune favours the bold.

Fortune favors the brave.

Choose bravery but not bravado.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage

There is always safety in valor.

You've got to be brave.

I've never lacked guts, for good or bad.

Some people have more guts than brains.

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

Boldness in itself is genius.

Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.