#timidity

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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#risk-taking #timidity #experience

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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#fear #inaction #just-do-it #risk #timidity

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

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#cowardly #danger #dangers #first #men