Top 390 Timid Quotes & Sayings

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

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

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

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

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.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

I'm actually very timid and nonconfrontational.

I used to be a very timid person, unable to express what I was feeling.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

I didn't marry someone timid and conservative.

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

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

Chess is not for timid souls.

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

Chess is not for the timid.

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.

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

I was always quiet and even timid.

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

Why be timid? Death is coming.

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

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

Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.

Messi is a star in every sense. He is not as timid as he seems.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

Freedom is not for the timid.

I'm not going to get a shot at the title and be timid, that's for sure.

Only the brave and adventuresome find God, never the timid.

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

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

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

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

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

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

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.

The only selfish life is a timid one.

No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.