quotes about Timidity

last updated: November 28, 2023

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
-- Honore de Balzac

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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
-- Jack Kemp

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Timidity puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them.
-- Paulo Coelho

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Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.
-- Poul Anderson

Source : Poul Anderson (2003). “Going For Infinity: A Literary Journey”, p.20, Macmillan

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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
-- Tacitus

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“Women need men like fish need bicycles.”
“Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.”
“I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.”
“May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.”

Source : "Bahrain will not digress from reform" by Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2011.
“The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?”
“Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.”
“Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.”
“Protect me from what I want.”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1990). “The Venice installation: United States Pavilion, the 44th Venice Biennale, May 27-September 30, 1990”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.”
“No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.”