James Dickey Quotes

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

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Fortune favors the audacious.

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

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Venus favors the bold.

I'm pretty gutsy. Dancers don't think about things; they just do them.

Fortune favours the bold.

Fortune favors the brave.

One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.

There is always safety in valor.

I saw a complete lack of courage in Washington to tackle some of our biggest challenges.

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

I will say and I will do things that no one else in their right mind would do.

People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

Boldness in itself is genius.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

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.

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.