Timid Quotes

238 quotes by 196 authors

The only selfish life is a timid one. — Jeanette Winterson
As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after another of Bastian's Fastastican gifts fell away from him. The strong, handsome, fearless hero became the small,… — Michael Ende
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would… — Glenway Wescott
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the… — Brennan Manning
I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but… — Julie Anne Peters
One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond… — Niccolo Machiavelli
To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But Iâ€™m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?â€ â€œI started living with you guys.â€ â€œOh, right. — Rachel Caine
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know whoâ€™s boss. — Robert A. Heinlein
No heart is so hard as the timid heart. — Norman Mailer
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves… — Theodore Roosevelt
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like… — Euripides
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character,… — Anna Quindlen

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