The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
I’d rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave.
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
Why be timid? Death is coming.
I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.
A nation will not be moved by timid methods.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.
Feeble and timid minds. . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
Nosology (from the Greek nosos, meaning disease, and logos, referring to study) is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.
We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.
The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child, Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.
We do not admire a man of timid peace.