A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
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
Have courage and wisdom to change the things for betterment, never shy away from your inner inherited power. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of the problems in life. If you walk the toughest path then you will achieve the best experience ever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei 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
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics… — Robert Harris 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
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
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
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
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early… — Basil W. Maturin 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
