Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove…

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear…

— Bertrand Russell

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never…

— Oscar Wilde

I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to…

— Maya Angelou

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

— Robert Dallek

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

— William Wordsworth

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

— Honore de Balzac

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

— Mason Cooley

“Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than…

— Margie Warrell

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.”

— Israelmore Ayivor