Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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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

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You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.

~ Jeanette Winterson

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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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It takes sharper axes to chops bigger trees just as it takes deeper enthusiasm to overcome stronger challenges. Timidity only increases your fears.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

~ Iveta Cherneva

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Life is never a static journey. Life goes on! Life is about step taking. For everything I need to know about life, I need to take a step

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

~ George Gordon Byron

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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

~ Tacitus

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

~ Vincent Van Gogh

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What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

~ Maya Angelou

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Be bold and never feel shy to consult people. You may appear like a stupid person for few minutes if you ask questions, but you are likely to be a fool forever if you don’t ask at all.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I’m a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know.

~ T.s. Eliot

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Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go!

~ Margie Warrell

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The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars.

~ Roman Payne

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A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand. If you don't have the starch to stand up in class and admit what you don't understand, then I don't have the time to explain it to you. If you don't have a policy against nonsense you can wind up with a dozen timid little rabbits lined up in the hall outside your office, all waiting to whisper the same imbecilic question in your ear.

~ Ann Patchett

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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..

~ Ellen Hopkins

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I'm like my cat. I run around in circles in my apartment, because the big bad outside is just too big. And scary. And outside. How do stray cats deal with all the stress of having no protection from all the air that’s going on around there, without anyone to guide and control it into timidity?

~ Will Advise

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Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You’re a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You’re twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you’d have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth

~ Isaac Babel

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And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.

~ Marcel Proust

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

~ William Shakespeare

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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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