Timidity Quotes
Timidity Quote of the day
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
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.
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.
Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.
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 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.
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.
Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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.
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
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.
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
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.
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
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.
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
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.
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.
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.
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.
Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.