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Definition of Timid

Timid

Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.

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Timid Quotations

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
Charles Stanley

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust

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

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

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus

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

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul

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

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
Dana Rohrabacher

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
George William Russell

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

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

Chess is not for timid souls.
Wilhelm Steinitz

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney M. Young

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

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
John Bach

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Timid Translations

timid in Danish is bange
timid in Dutch is benepen, beschroomd, bang
timid in German is befangen, furchtsam, furchtsam
timid in Italian is timoroso
timid in Latin is timidus
timid in Norwegian is sjenert

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