A Quote by Jean Baptiste Massillon

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

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Jean Baptiste Massillon
June 24, 1663 - September 28, 1742

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Jim Rohn

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

Alexander H. Stephens

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

John Lothrop Motley

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

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

Zig Ziglar

Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid

Cheng Man-ch'ing

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.

Don Drysdale

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

Cesar Chavez

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

Don Drysdale

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

Euripides

Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

Luc de Clapiers

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

George S. Patton

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Winifred Holtby

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