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"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."

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

"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 ..."

"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, ..."

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

"Bear in mind that humility is not timidity."

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

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

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