Quotes About Timidity

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity,'' she said, with a look resembling one of those heroines of the age of chivalry, whose encouragement was wont to give champions double valour at the hour of need; ``and to the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible, because it seems so.

Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral?

Ai fost stirv cu stirvurile lumii? atunci iti meriti primavara altor vazduhuri. Cu istoria trebuie sa lupti ?i cu trecutul sa te incrincenezi intocmai ca cu prezentul. Cine cauta o epoca din timiditate sau eruditie e domol si las. Intreaga istorie universala s-o consideri cimp de desfasurare a vitejiei tale. Si daca n-ai imboldul razboitor, transforma-o atunci in vis, ca pretextul irealitatii sa-ti scuze siestele instinctelor.

Cu cît oamenii te intereseazå mai putin, cu atît devii mai timid în fata lor, iar cînd ajungi sa-i dispretuiesti, începi sa te bîlbîi.

Nothing is worse than the coarseness and meanness we perpetrate out of 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.

I'm a girly girl. I'm strong, but I'm very timid. Very dainty.

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

In my freshman year of high school, I don't think I had a single date. I was really shy, really timid and quiet. I had my first real date when I was a sophomore, with a girl from church.

Women pay attention to how men drive because it's a good indicator of what kind of character you have. They want someone who's going to be intelligent and cautious and assertive and confident when you need to be, but not overly aggressive and reckless, and also not timid and overly paranoid.

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

As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

When you can't see you become very timid about space and moving. You become less aggressive and less tenacious. Lots of things that shouldn't be affected by vision really are. And you don't even know what they are until they become unstuck.

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

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.

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.

Timidity has followed me throughout the years.

One time, I brought Prince to the set. He's a friend of mine, and he asked to come. Everyone wanted to meet him, but he's a little shy.

Sono io la corrente. E corrente alternata. Controcorrente e scatenata. Ma ammiro anche Sam, e mi sono lanciata, anche se è timido si alza appena esco dalle placide onde per prendergli la mano e anche lui, in questo pantano, sotto il cielo rosso tiziano.

Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.