Foolhardiness Quotes

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

This is the most horrible idea I have heard of, and anyone who shall venture, dare, hazard, make bold and have the audacity to propose it will not be safe from my dagger.

If you're a foolhardy, braggadocio male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

I consider myself a fearless idiot.

Only fools are positive.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

I feel Icelandic people are really good at gathering together information and brain power. We're better at that than some kind of Las Vegas money gambling. I mean, I really admire the characteristics in Icelandics, this adventureism. We are famous for it. We are addicted to risk to the point of being foolhardy. And I think that is great in brain power stuff.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Fools are without number.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.