“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 Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“Nothing is worse than the coarseness and meanness we perpetrate out of timidity.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt... — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often… — Kathryn Kuhlman Copy Share Image
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Timidity has no place in a major action movie. You have to know how to take your moments. Sometimes walking out the… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The tragedy in the life of a timid man is not necessarily that he is timorous, but obviously there is something that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Copy Share Image
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early… — Basil W. Maturin Copy Share Image
Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Don't be shy about asking for help. It doesn't mean you're weak, it only means you're wise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt. — Marian Burros Copy Share Image
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You make jokes because you're afraid to take anything seriously, because if you take things seriously, they matter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
