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
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“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
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
Only those who play win.Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. — Iveta Cherneva 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
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
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
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
If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity… — Robert Greene 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
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
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 you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish… — Du Mu 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
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves. — Bill Maher 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
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
