Top 100 Timid Quotes
#1. Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#2. 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.
Stephen Crane
#3. Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir
' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept
Lewis Carroll
#4. You have to be really strong in the music industry, and I'm naturally very timid. That was really hard for me. You have to be tough. You have to make decisions and be a businesswoman.
Rebecca Ferguson
#5. Mr. Snagsby, as a timid man, is accustomed to cough with a variety of expressions, and so to save words.
Charles Dickens
#6. Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?
Anne Rice
#7. When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.
Woody Allen
#8. What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!
Steve Maraboli
#9. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
#11. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.
Julia Cameron
#12. You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.
Enid Blyton
#13. Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
Andrea Gibson
#14. I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.
Mike Huckabee
#15. A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#16. The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?
Edgar Guest
#17. 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.
Virginia Graham
#18. Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who's boss.
Robert A. Heinlein
#19. Our sex is called timid and weak; believe it no more! We tremble at a spider, but the black monster, corruption, we hug to our arms in sport!
Friedrich Schiller
#20. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
#22. 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.
George S. Patton
#23. Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
#25. But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
Alicia Machado
#26. 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.
Olivia Munn
#27. I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.
Joss Stirling
#28. I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I can say what I feel, but I can't speak for - no one can speak for - 10 million people, and it takes away something from them if you make yourself their voice.
Edwidge Danticat
#30. I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?"
"I started living with you guys."
"Oh, right.
Rachel Caine
#31. If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat.
John Eldredge
#32. Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak ... Non-violence is hard work.
Cesar Chavez
#33. The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus
#34. The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.
David Halberstam
#35. Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
David Halberstam
#36. From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.
Anna Dostoyevskaya
#37. As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.
Frederick Russell Burnham
#38. It is much better to dare great things, to celebrate great triumphs, even when you have had failures along the way, then to get into the line of the cold and timid souls who experience neither joy nor pain because they live in the gray zone in which there is neither victory nor defeat." Winners
Bodo Schafer
#39. I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody thought. I had all the answers and I could have been as bad as I wanted to be. But nowadays I just want to be good and make people happy.
Ariel Pink
#40. 14Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.
Anonymous
#41. Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily ...
Wilhelm Reich
#42. Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
Cesare Pavese
#43. 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.
Alice Walker
#44. Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.
Shana Alexander
#45. Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#46. When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.
Eric Hoffer
#47. Never be daunted in public' was an early Hemingway phrase that had more than once bolstered me in my timid twenties. I changed it resolutely to 'Never be daunted in private'.
- M.F.K. Fisher A Is for Dining Alone
Jenni Ferrari-Adler
#48. When you're timid, you're just thinking of yourself! Think of the other person - put him at ease, get him a drink.
Eve Branson
#49. Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
Josh Billings
#50. The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
#51. When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
Carlos Castaneda
#53. We will make bold rather than timid investment decisions where we see a sufficient probability of gaining market leadership advantages," they wrote. "Some of these investments will pay off, others will not, and we will have learned another valuable lesson in either case.
Anonymous
#54. His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
Charles Stanley
#55. It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers.
Mark Batterson
#56. If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her
Victor Hugo
#58. Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.
James Joyce
#59. Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Henry David Thoreau
#60. They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.
Lew Wallace
#61. Only the brave and adventuresome find God, never the timid.
Harold Klemp
#62. I'm angry as hell. I'm angry for all the people who should be angry but aren't, either because they're too stupid or too timid.
Jarod Kintz
#63. Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
Bertrand Russell
#65. 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.
J.B. Priestley
#66. Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.
The Notorious B.I.G.
#67. We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
Luc De Clapiers
#68. How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.
Oskar Kokoschka
#69. We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
Theodore Roosevelt
#70. The timid practicality that is the major message that our kids absorb today is alibied-and camouflaged, and soothed-with a hollow commercialized rebellion.
William Deresiewicz
#71. Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.
Winifred Holtby
#72. Feeble and timid minds ... consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
Edward Gibbon
#73. We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#74. What I do on stage, you won't catch me doing off stage. I mean, I think deep down I'm still kind of, like, timid and modest about a lot of things. But on stage, I release all that; I let it
go.
Selena
#75. Words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...
John Geddes
#76. Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone
Tacitus
#78. He is not in the habit of explaining himself. He is not in the habit of discussing his successes. But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood.
Hilary Mantel
#79. Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.
Mason Cooley
#80. For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.
Emanuel Celler
#81. With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets.
Khaled Hosseini
#82. buttons, and turns out his toes.' [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] 'That's different from what
Lewis Carroll
#83. I like you for the way you are now. I like you who try your best to save people no matter how timid you are. I don't want to see "you" who kill people while smiling, even that "you" saved me, and even how strong "you" are. That's why... this is, goodbye.
Tooru Hayama
#85. [The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste
or is but half taste.
Horace Walpole
#86. You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.
Christoph Waltz
#87. The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.
Ruth Benedict
#88. The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.
Mason Cooley
#89. Ah, furchte fruchte, timid Danaides! Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we! A pair of sycopanties with amygdaleine eyes, one old obster lumpky pumpkin and three meddlars on their slies.
James Joyce
#90. If you want to live greatly, you must also be willing to risk greatly. To get to the pearls, the diver needs to be willing to go deep and visit the places that the timid souls would never visit.
Robin S. Sharma
#91. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.
Og Mandino
#92. The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#93. Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.
Jane Rule
#95. The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. She had been impulsive all her life, made decisions without thought for the future, and regretted none of them, however dotty. Looking back, all she regretted were the opportunities missed, either because they had come along at the wrong time or because she had been too timid to grasp them.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#97. Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
Orson Welles
#98. I'm a girly girl. I'm strong, but I'm very timid. Very dainty.
Lil' Kim
#99. I'm timid, apparently I look like hell and have as many issues as People magazine
Maya Banks
