A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris
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
Chess is not for timid souls.
Wilhelm Steinitz
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
Charles Stanley
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
Kate Adie
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Thomas Gold
It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Alphonsus Liguori
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
Brenda Ueland
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
Dana Rohrabacher
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Thomas Moore
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney M. Young
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
Don Drysdale
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus
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