Diffidence Quotes
Diffidence Quote of the day
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.
My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.
I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
