Timid Quotes

238 quotes by 196 authors

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound. — Lord Byron
I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have… — Fernando Pessoa
I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back,… — Jeanette Winterson
I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering… — Susan Cain
Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? — Andrea Gibson
She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone… — Jerry Spinelli
Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many… — Rod McKuen
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that… — Edgar Guest
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive — Seamus Heaney
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt
Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if… — Wilhelm Reich
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the… — Paul Wellstone
The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision,… — Thomas Paine
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. — Walter Scott
I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to… — Veerappa Moily
Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going… — Brian O'Driscoll

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