#timidity

Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt... ↗

— Sarah Pekkanen

#timidity #inspirational

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

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

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cowardly #danger #dangers #first #men

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#first #girl #love #man #symptom

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#any #been #cautious #century #character