Words matter. These are the best Timidity Quotes from famous people such as Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maya Angelou, Jack Kemp, Arthur L. Herman, Munshi Premchand, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‘I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.’ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‘Yes, I deserve it.’
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
