#timid

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

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

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#threat #children

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

— William Shakespeare

#self-responsibility #timidity #responsibility

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#timidity #confidence

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you. ↗

— Eric Bana

#distracted #either #going #i #i think

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#day #every #every day #everyday #first

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#before #fight #hitting #i #intimidate

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#came #enjoy #i #i came #intimidating