Compassion Quote by Maya Angelou

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

— Jim Rohn

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Nothing is worse than the coarseness and meanness we perpetrate out of timidity.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the…

— Dean Koontz

For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued…

— William Hazlitt

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Gentleness is not apathy but is an aggressive expression of how we view people. We see people as so valuable that we deal with…

— Gayle D. Erwin