Rashness is ill-considered haste or boldness
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Courage and rashness should not be confused
- Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. Plutarch
- True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Where the brave don’t have the guts to question their immortal duty, cowards are rash about survival. Bauvard
- Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley
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Rashness almost always leads to trouble and damage
- A rash man is fond of provoking trouble, but when the trouble comes he is no match for it ; a clever man turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all. Chinese Proverbs
- 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
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Rashness is rarely fortunate or victorious …
- Rashness is not fortunate. Titus Livy
- Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. Abraham Lincoln
- Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. R. Buckminster Fuller
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… for rashness tends to lose to consideration
- Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses.
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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary
- When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. Napoleon Bonaparte
- 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
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Rashness is associated with the young
- Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Final thoughts
- To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. Roger Ascham
- Rashness and haste make all things insecure. Sir John Denham
- I was too hasty to condemn unheard; and you perhaps too prompt in your replies. John Dryden
- Reckless haste makes poor speed. Benjamin Franklin
- Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. Jean de la Fontaine
- None are rash when they are not seen by anybody. Leszczynski Stanislaus
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