(75 quotes found)
“It is only through timidity that states are lost.”
Voltaire
“Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly, they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.”
Bertrand Russell
“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
“Ang Lee is fierce in his timidity, his humbleness and his respect for everyone around him. He's frustrating and so damn wise.”
Jake Gyllenhaal
“We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.”
David Gayson
“The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss”
Arabian Proverb
“Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.”
Munshi Premchand
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
Contributed by: Dave Cohen
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If love be timid it is not true”
Spanish Proverb
“Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.”
Jean Paul Richter
