timidity

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

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

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

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

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

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

Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.

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

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