Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I've once been quiet and aloof, a loner who trusted no one. That time, I realized that I've grown timid with lot… — Vince Copy Share Image
“Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and… — Margie Warrell Copy Share Image
Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am shy by nature and in a way it is a blessing in disguise because being alone does not really make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will,… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
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
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness… — George Eliot 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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“[...] follow freely the ideal you've set for yourself and which you must feel within you; be bold and confident in your… — Jean Jacques Eigeldinger 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
“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
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
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
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
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