Chess is not for the timid.

Chess is not for timid souls.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

I never want to play timid or scared of anything, especially when my pitcher or my teammates are out there going 100 percent.

— Aaron Judge

“cautious, one adventurous and daring, and they lived together in one head and one body, and they went everywhere together. The timid one was…

— Amy Cross

As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was…

— Hamish Bowles

Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“true love is ever timid;”

— Mrs. Henry Wood

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

— Anonymous

“I understand perfectly. He's fallen for your quiet, timid shell. For who you used to be. He has no idea what you're capable of.…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Inspiration is the timid beast that comes to your open hand once you’ve fallen asleep having given up trying to coax it from its…

— Shaun Hick

“Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.”

— George Eliot

You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if…

— Tibor Fischer

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

— G. Edward Griffin

“I met you, you were timid and frightened of everything and everyone. You made the proverbial church mouse look like a happy hooker.”

— Anonymous

“Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Only the timid n the weak leave things to destiny but the strong and the self-confident never bank on destiny or luck

— Anonymous