#timidity

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#timidity #confidence

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

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

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#councils #timidity #war

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

#bravery #contagious #like #timidity

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#day #deal #effort #every #every day

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

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

— Thomas Hardy

#blending #courage #moral #moral courage #physical