Timid Quotes

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Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please… — Olivia Munn
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. — Jean Paul
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John… — Mitt Romney
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness. — Charles Stanley
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were… — Alice Walker
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join… — Mark Twain
Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is. — Henry Miller
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul. — Spencer W. Kimball
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both… — Victor Hugo
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. — Mahatma Gandhi
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish… — Robert A. Heinlein
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt… — James Joyce
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A… — Harper Lee
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not… — Jim Rohn
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide… — Lewis Carroll
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through… — Isabel Allende
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. — Cesar Chavez
For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet… — George Eliot

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