Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine"… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or… — Steve Saint Copy Share Image
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens. — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Don't hide in the dark to whisper the truth undertone secretly. It's a good way to market your timidity. Be bold.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Sometimes following the path that looked the safest was what led to the most hurt... — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you admit your mistake, it is not sign of weakness, it reflect your inner strength. If you shy away from weakness… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the… — Jane Porter 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
Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
It has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We have people there who do have substantial wisdom and substantial experience. And if they were confident enough to express their own… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks. — Douglas William Jerrold 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
![“It has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory has been pushed too far. [...] The type of aggressiveness that is the outcome of timidity is not, I think, that which inspires great leaders; the great leaders, I should say…” quote by Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c5f/bertrand-russell-69_aggressiveness_it-has-become-a-commonplace-that-aggress_2688068.jpg)
