#timidity

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness."