Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Maybe the Bull is not aware of the enormous strength it poses; perhaps that's why a little boy can lead it to… — POB Bismark Copy Share Image
In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.” — Maya Angelou 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
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity? — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. -2 Timothy 1:7 — Bible Copy Share Image
Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“An end to timidity - the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive." - on the making of the Oxford… — Simon Winchester 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
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like… — Gwen John Copy Share Image
If you want to grind for success and in order to succeed - your compulsion to succeed should surpass your fear to… — Nkululeko Goqo Copy Share Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The very best way in all the world to overcome self-consciousn ess and shyness is to get interested in other people and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when the Spirit of God was striving and calling so plainly, I would yield and say, 'Yes, Lord; I will go.'… — Maria Woodworth-Etter Copy Share Image
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
