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

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Smell, Shy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Retain your shyness and drop your shame.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Shame

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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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• 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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• Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

  Kanye West

  Being Yourself, Believe, Conquer

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

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Disappointment, Frustration, Insightful

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  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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• Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Distance, People, Feelings

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• introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

  Steve Martin

  Natural, States, Introduction

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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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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• A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

  Slash

  Character, Years, Vices

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• Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

  Susan Cain

  Degrees, Debate, Psychologist

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.78, Jerome K. Jerome

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