Timid Quotes
238 quotes by 200 authors
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Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.
— Jewel
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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own power. In the…
— Frederick Lenz
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How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the…
— Oskar Kokoschka
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It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't…
— Mark Batterson
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No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our…
— Max More
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This is a universe that does not favor the timid.
— Socrates
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The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and…
— Criss Jami
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Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard,…
— Honore de Balzac
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The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid…
— Sloane Crosley
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
— Sydney J. Harris
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away…
— Thomas Moore
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