Timid Quotes
238 quotes by 196 authors
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The only selfish life is a timid one.
— Jeanette Winterson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?†“I started living with you guys.†“Oh, right.
— Rachel Caine
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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
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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
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Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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No heart is so hard as the timid heart.
— Norman Mailer
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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
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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
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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
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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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