Timid Quotes

238 quotes by 200 authors

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame. — Jewel
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
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
There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
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
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
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
This is a universe that does not favor the timid. — Socrates
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
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
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
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
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
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. — Sydney J. Harris
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. — W. Somerset Maugham
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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