Top 390 Timid Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?” “I started living with you guys.” “Oh, right.
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.
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
I never want to play timid or scared of anything, especially when my pitcher or my teammates are out there going 100 percent.
So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.
I've always wanted to explore different types of roles and prove to others that Divyanka is not all about being a timid dulhan.
To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.
When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
... 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.
The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child,
Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.
Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.
Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
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.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.
Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
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.
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.
Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid
We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron
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.
When a timid mouse who is a mom needs to be a hero, she does it, because that's what moms do.
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.
Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.
A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
At first, I am a bit timid, but when I know people I feel better. Then I give a real impression of Joao Moutinho.
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.
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
When I'm working with strangers, I can get a little timid or scared. With friends, I'm willing to' try anything, because there's a lot of trust involved.
It's hard to imagine anyone accusing Lionel Shriver of being a timid writer.
I’d rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.