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
The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt. — Marian Burros Copy Share Image
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It hurts when you keep on pretending you do not care for someone you truly love just to hide your real feelings… — Nella Autnap Copy Share Image
I am not that expressive but I really do care and I just pretend everything is fine. Maybe someday, someone will see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the… — Hippocrates 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
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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
Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of… — Max Lucado 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
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
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
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
Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was… — Arthur L. Herman 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
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
“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
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
Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
