Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
(n.) The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
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 ra...
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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...
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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...
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,...