12 Timidity Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Maya Angelou

Time Good You Yourself Fear Space Responsibility Living Out Some Take Know Occupy Doing Came Up Antidote Timidity Just Afraid Being Dying Then Full Here

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. Victor Hugo

Love Man Girl First Young Symptom Timidity Young Man Boldness

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity. Steven Biko

Man Oppression Black Become Own Shadow Bearing Misery Drowning Shell His Timidity Yoke Ox Defeated Slave

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. Sydney Smith

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious. Munshi Premchand

Contagious Like Also Timidity Bravery

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. Arthur L. Herman

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Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work. Geraldine McCaughrean

Work Confidence Win Overcome Characters Kind Through Suppose Most Self-Esteem End Timidity Lack In The End Central Low Low Self-Esteem

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism. Jack Kemp

War Timidity Breed

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 sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. Lionel Blue

Sad Suffering Fear Losing Side Our Weakness More Fed Fed Up Songs Sad Songs Up Timidity Any Want Sentimentality Jewish

It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it. Sam Shepard

You Courage Honesty Try Rest Difficult Think Background Exactly Exactly What See More More And More Both Know Stick Very Escape Timidity Ends Your Inherited Even Start Necessary

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity. Scott Anderson

Me World Made Sense Extraordinarily Kind Detachment Constantly Rather Through Had Outsider Also Always Self-Sufficient Truly Cultures Than Timidity May Childhood Being Different Place Manifested Different Cultures Moving Bred Inhabit Certain Explore Many Even Shyness

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