Diffidence Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the… — Jane Austen
No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; [we] must be… — Heber J. Grant
Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness. — Mahatma Gandhi
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his… — Samuel Johnson
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek… — Dean Koontz
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves. — Alphonsus Liguori
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped.… — Charles Caleb Colton
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir
I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I… — Ayelet Waldman
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either… — W. Somerset Maugham
I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my… — Alexander Pushkin
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… — Robert Frost
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be… — Daphne du Maurier
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be happy with myself. I worry that if I cant be happy with myself, then nobody will ever… — Babloo

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