Shyness Quotes

• All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flirty, Women, Flirting

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• Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

  Steven Morrissey

  Nice, Things In Life

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• The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Smell, Shy

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• I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Lions, Shut Up, Introvert

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never let shyness conquer your mind.

  Arfa Karim

  Mind, Conquer

  "Arfa Karim Randhawa Wins MCP – Interview". arfakarim.wordpress.com. January 14, 2012.

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• The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Fear, Business, Women

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• Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Want, Turns

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

  Kanye West

  Being Yourself, Believe, Conquer

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• the shell must break before the bird can fly.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wise, Motivation, Inspiration

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

  Susan Cain

  Environment, Painful, Social

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

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  My feelings are too loud for words
  And too shy for the world.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Emotional, Feelings, Shy

  "Forgotten Home". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

  Johnny Depp

  Hate, Shy, Use

  "I do not know what is sexy about me, says Johnny Depp". Interview with Aakanksha Naval-Shetye, www.dnaindia.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Shy

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 2001.

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• There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

  Priscilla Presley

  Needs, Shy

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• I can do anything you want me to do so long as I dont have to speak

  Linda Evangelista

  Funny, Long, Want

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• Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

  Jonathan Katz

  Couple, Years, Shy

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• I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

  Don Rickles

  Shy, Outgoing, Protect

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• And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Girl, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)".

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• The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Disappointment, Frustration, Insightful

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• What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

  Kurt Masur

  Shy, Kind

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• Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

  Vernon Baker

  Hate, Home, Heart

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• Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

  J. B. Priestley

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

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• A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Failure, Shy

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

  Steve Martin

  School, People, Laughing

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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