Quotes About Timidity

Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room.

He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me many of his poems. I remember many of them. They were silly, you could say, and about love. He was always in his room writing those things, and never with people. I used to tell him, What good is all that love doing on paper? I said, Let love write on you for a little. But he was so stubborn. Or perhaps he was only timid.

My mind opened eagerly to meet them, but my soul was already ruined for ever, soiled and dead. It had been bitten by a mean, weak-nerved timidity, like a tick in a dog's ear: you tear it off, but the small head remains to grow again into a complete, loathsome insect.

That's one of my problems. I never get angry quick enough. I never speak up when I am really mad. And then I feel silly bringing it up later.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.   2 Timothy 1:7

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.

Oswin, zo is het wel genoeg,' zei Balam. 'Straks schrikt hij nog van zijn eigen schaduw.' 'Misschien is het tijd dat we allemaal wat sneller schrikken.

I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.

I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be called that as rash.

I'm such a scaredy cat.

I'm actually quite a scaredy cat, myself.

Our neighbors had always thought us vaguely mad to swim in the pond—someone had seen a snapping turtle more than once—but Poppy and I scoffed at their timidity.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Patience that blending of moral courage with physical 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.

Papal timidity becomes ever more blatantly despicable.

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.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

Hay hombres que se aprovechan de las mujeres tímidas, o de las muy jóvenes, o de las educadas, de las que tienen horror al enfrentamiento. Incluso a dar una negativa clara. Las hay, aunque no te lo creas. Que al final se dejan mucho, sólo por no hacer un feo o no montar una escena.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

El amor que teme no ser correspondido infunde esta clase de timidez a los hombres más enérgicos

I am a coward. I am a cowardly coward, full of cowardice.