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

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

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

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

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

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...

The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

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

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 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...

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.

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

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

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...

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.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

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

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.

If we spend our days trying to avoid the landmines of stepping out of God’s will, then will be afraid to take any risks for his kingdom. But when you know there is a net...

A bold slave is more powerful than a timid king

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...

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...

An hour’s terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.