Timidity Quotes - Page 6

• Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

  Jack Kemp

  War, Council

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• Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Despair, Overcoming, May

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.133

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• Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
  Take up the battle. Take it up.
  It’s yours. This is your life.
  This is your world.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Years, Giving

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• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

  Sydney Smith

  Confidence, Courage, Fear

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.201

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• Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

  Thomas Hughes

  Fun, Faces, Silent

  Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.311, The Floating Press

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• One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Age, Routine

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.44, Crown

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• It is only through timidity that states are lost.

  Voltaire

  Shyness, Lost, States

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• We have people there who do have substantial wisdom and substantial experience. And if they were confident enough to express their own views, that they wouldn't be bushwhacked by the party for casting a single vote like Bob Bennett was or like I was, they'd be willing to speak up and they'd be willing to speak their consciences and put their ideas on the line. But right now, there is timidity, there is fear that if they do that a single votes gonna cost them their job and they're not willing to make that kind of a sacrifice and they're not enough with the people.

  Arlen Specter

  Party, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Fear, Ideas

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• I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

  Basil W. Maturin

  Believe, Views, Childhood

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• If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too.

  Mildred Cable

  Men, People, Awkward

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• He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who proceeds without principle, as chance, timidity, or self-preservation directs, will not perhaps fare better; but he will be less blamed.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Party, Self, Punishment

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• Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.

  Walter Schloss

  Past, Missing, Important

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• In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  "Strength to Love". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr. , Ch. 2, 1963.

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• The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.

  David Selbourne

  Cutting, Political, Literature

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• Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Advice, Audacity

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• The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

  Max Lerner

  Government, Competition, Groups

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• I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.

  Steve Saint

  Regret, Believe, Epic

  Steve Saint (2010). “End of the Spear”, p.144, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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