Timidity Quotes

111 quotes by 96 authors

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental… — Max Lerner
Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll… — Charles R. Swindoll
If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity… — Du Mu
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Who timidly requests invites refusal. — Seneca the Younger
... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe… — Bernard Malamud
When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so. — Sigmund Freud
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish… — Lionel Blue
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism. — Jack Kemp
Timidity puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them. — Paulo Coelho
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. — Tacitus
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors,… — Samuel Johnson
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. — Norman Mailer
Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a… — Frank Rich
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. — Paula Rego
If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached an apex of… — Frederick Lenz
What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of… — Jonathan Gottschall

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