10 Quotes on Timidity

• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

  Author: Munshi Premchand

• Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

  Author: Jean Paul

• For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• 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.

  Author: Gwen John

• The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

  Author: Friedrich Hayek

• Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

  Author: Thomas Hardy

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