Timid Quotes

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

Chess is not for timid souls.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.