Quotes on “timidity”

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

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

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

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.