“It is only through timidity that states are lost.”
Voltaire
“Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.”
Maya Angelou
“Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.”
Whitney M. Young Jr.
“Who timidly requests invites refusal”
Latin Proverb
“I'm a timid person-I was beaten up by Quakers”
Woody Allen
“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity”
Thomas Hardy
“The man for whom the law exists -- the man of forms, the conservative -- is a tame man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson