#midi

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#fear #inaction #just-do-it #risk #timidity

For now, they had simpler concerns. Keeping the children from the roofs at night, the bereaved from crying out too loud, the young in summer from falling in love with the human. ↗

— Clive Barker

#love

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#mistakes #paradox #timidity #wisdom #wisdom

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#self-responsibility #timidity #responsibility

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#timidity #confidence

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. ↗

— Paul Valery

#content #fire #humidity #own #people

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#blending #courage #moral #moral courage #physical

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#arrived #certain #conviction #crucial #discuss