Top 66 Timid Quotes

Girls in Asia are very obedient, shy, timid, quiet, but I can tell that it’s changing, and I want them to be stronger and tell them that it’s OK to be different.

I was always quiet and even timid.

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Normally, people think of Asian women as timid, but I think I’m very strong.

I’m actually very timid and nonconfrontational.

My father was also a painter – actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I was growing up as a cautious kid.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

Any woman who has ever worked in a gutsy male environment knows that the correct response to a randy remark is an even more salacious retort. But timid feminists don’t see it that way. To them, the proper reply is a lawsuit – that safe, modern version of the old slap in the face.

I’m a girly girl. I’m strong, but I’m very timid. Very dainty.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

I never want to play timid or scared of anything, especially when my pitcher or my teammates are out there going 100 percent.

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.

Do you want to be the girl that’s envied, or do you want to be the girl that inspires you? Most people don’t know that I am super shy and timid, but online people think I have a big personality. Make sure whatever you do has an overall message and has value.

I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that I’m perhaps too timid to do in real life.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn’t talk to anybody. I didn’t look you in the eye. I just had that kind of personality as a kid that basically puts a target on you.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn’t turn to them for help. I didn’t have an older brother.

Every so often, I am thanked for being ‘unapologetically me.’ I treasure those moments, those people, and remember them every time I’m feeling timid.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

China wants Western countries to be timid. Its strategic foreign policy has been to make any criticism of the Communist Party of China seem unreasonable or even Sinophobic.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn’t offer a compelling enough vision.

In my freshman year of high school, I don’t think I had a single date. I was really shy, really timid and quiet. I had my first real date when I was a sophomore, with a girl from church.

I grew up really timid, anxious kid, and I never really had to stand up for myself.

We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.

I’m timid. But not on the court, at least, I try not to be.

We will be a nation that is engaged not isolated, bold not timid. This is the very stuff of what it means to be us.

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

Women pay attention to how men drive because it’s a good indicator of what kind of character you have. They want someone who’s going to be intelligent and cautious and assertive and confident when you need to be, but not overly aggressive and reckless, and also not timid and overly paranoid.

Being gay and coming up in New Orleans was not easy. At first I was very terrified and very timid.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.

Everyone’s so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it’s like we’re all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don’t act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Editors have grown timid… a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

Chess is not for timid souls.

As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of ‘My Fair Lady’ – and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward… I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

I’m always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.

When I’m playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I’m not going to play well.

The forms of thought, into which we throw our timid views of God, are but symbols of truths greater than our thoughts. Yet we may not set them aside as worthless, for they are the rungs on which we dwellers in the cave climb to the full view of the Truth, as he is.

It’s hard to imagine anyone accusing Lionel Shriver of being a timid writer.

When you can’t see you become very timid about space and moving. You become less aggressive and less tenacious. Lots of things that shouldn’t be affected by vision really are. And you don’t even know what they are until they become unstuck.

At first, I am a bit timid, but when I know people I feel better. Then I give a real impression of Joao Moutinho.

At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers’ gain.

I’ve always wanted to explore different types of roles and prove to others that Divyanka is not all about being a timid dulhan.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.

I tell you it’s no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don’t think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

You hear about our conservative background and know that we’re Christian guys, but we’re not timid at all. I will take anyone on when it comes to outworking them or putting on a better show or standing up for people who are being put down.

I was always extremely determined, but I was also quite timid.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

I’ve always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always seemed to me that they behaved like meek and gentle supplicants begging the oppressor for a few crumbs of justice, for a few molecules of citizenship rights.