Top 123 Timidity Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity
Timidity puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them.
Timidity has followed me throughout the years.
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.
Lust is the cause of generation
Appetite is the support of life
Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and
Fraud the preservation of its instruments.
The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.
Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.
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.
An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.
Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.
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.
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.
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.
Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.
Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.
