Timidness Quotes

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

I'm kind of shy when it comes to women, so I don't really approach them. I'll just admire them from afar, and if they happen to say something to me, then maybe I'll find the courage to say something.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

I was always quiet and even timid.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

Fremont, morally and physically, was the most complete coward I ever knew … I would say he was timid as a woman if it were not casting an unmerited reproach on that sex.

I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.

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

Until I was about 14, I was so shy.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

I don’t care how honest a man is. If he is timid, he is no good.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

I was really, really shy when I was a little girl.

I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.

... 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 he is entitled to good fortune.

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

I'm kind of a scaredy cat.

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

I'm kind of shy.

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.