Timidity Quotes
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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
— Honore De Balzac
Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.
— Poul Anderson
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think ... Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
— David McCullough
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
— Marian Burros
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
— William Shakespeare
In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.
— Clyde S. Kilby
No woman dares express all she thinks.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
— Vincent Van Gogh
Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
— George Gordon Byron
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
— Thomas Hughes
Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
— Giacomo Casanova
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A person's greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Cowardly thoughts, anxious hesitation, Womanish timidity, timorous complaints Won't keep misery away from you And will not set you free.
— Edith Hahn Beer
Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.
— Mason Cooley
I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.
— Mason Cooley
When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.
— Sigmund Freud
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
— Samuel Johnson
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
— Pope Pius X
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
— William Manchester
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
— Seneca The Younger
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
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
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
— Idries Shah
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
— Honore De Balzac
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.
— Iveta Cherneva
What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence!
— Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.
— Walter Schloss
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
— Maya Angelou
An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
— Walter De La Mare
Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt ...
— Sarah Pekkanen
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
— Paula Rego
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It is not in the power of Britain or of Europe to conquer America, if she do not conquer herself by DELAY and TIMIDITY.
— Thomas Paine
Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
— Maya Angelou
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
— Robert Dallek
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
— Munshi Premchand