Quotes with rashness

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• A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

  Jimmy Carter
  American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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• Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

  Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  Richard Buckminster Fuller
  American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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• Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.

  J. Swartz
   
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• True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• steadfastness
• unnecessary
• insecurity
• misfortune
• sufficient
• nimbleness

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