Best Rashness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Going For Infinity: A Literary Journey

“When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.”

Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

“Reckless haste makes poor speed.”

Poor Speed Reckless Haste Rashness

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?”

Years Age Merit Infirmity Rashness

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

“Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]”

Blind Fortune Pursue Suits Rashness Inconsiderate

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.”

Age Youth Old Age Companion Prudence Rashness

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.”

Ifs Action Danger Design Genius Balance Glory Casts Enterprise Neglect Cowardice Exceed Undertakings Rashness

Author:Francis Quarles

“To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.”

Skills Shame Rashness

Author:Roger Ascham

“Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.”

Cowardice Resorts Rashness

Author:Duke of Wellington

“There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.”

Used Plans Consequence Luck Stupidity Selfishness Idiot Bad Luck Rashness No Such Thing As Luck

Book:Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two

Source: Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two

“Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.”

Men May Sometimes States Body Action Missing Fit Mark Vices Shakes Limbs Joints Rashness

Author:Owen Feltham

“Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.”

Children Justice Limits Boldness Lofty Pedestal Rashness

Author:Sophocles

“Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.”

Firsts Littles Action Too Much Goes On Committed Commit Isolation Rashness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.”

Certain Fear Effects Produce Degrees Rashness

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

“Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.”

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.”

Knows Real Danger Duty Brave Tranquil Firmness Rashness

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.”

Rashness

Author:Stanisław I Leszczyński

“Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will”

Knows Should Wells Ends Shapes Divinity Plot Rough Providence Rashness

Author:William Shakespeare

“The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.”

Kind Self Desire Lovers Speech Cures Conceit Skeptic Rashness

Book:Sextus Empiricus

Source: Sextus Empiricus

“God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.”

Thinking Break Laughter Bones Wounds Vanity Blunders Rashness

Book:The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

Source: The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

“The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.”

War Real Moments Fortune Humble Historian Daring Distress Modest Rapids Spectators Peril Prosperous Exploits Animated Prudent Rashness

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens Might Events Design Curiosity Prophet Folly Contempt Exposed Providence Fulfilled Prophecy Testament Old Testament Enabling Interpreter Rashness

Author:Isaac Newton

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”

Life Success Courage Excess Cowardice Halfway Rashness

Author:Plutarch

“There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”

Life Ends Shapes Divinity Rough Horatio Hamlet And Ophelia Ophelia Hamlet 2 Hamlet Ophelia Important Hamlet Polonius Rashness Hamlet Significant Denmark In Hamlet

Author:William Shakespeare

“Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

Lying Literature Cowardice Halfway Valor Rashness

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

Life Inspirational Littles Motivational Success Opportunity Ability Positive Accounts Social Justice Luck Life Opportunity Rashness

Author:Lucille Ball

“Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.”

Stills Failing Failure Succeed Rashness

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”

Giving Energy Sleep Military Victory Dignity Vigilance Rashness

Book:Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln

“Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.”

Age Youth Aging Old Age Birthday Prudence 50th Birthday Rashness

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.”

Doe Age Youth Old Age Prudence Rashness

Book:Cato Major; Or, a Treatise on Old Age ... With Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By Mr. Loggan [sic]. To which is Prefixed, the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Source: Cato Major; Or, a Treatise on Old Age ... With Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By Mr. Loggan [sic]. To which is Prefixed, the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.”