47 Quotes About Timidity

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

Timidity is static, expressiveness is progression.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

I'm like my cat. I run around in circles in my apartment, because the big bad outside is just too big. And scary. And outside. How do stray cats deal with all the stress of having no protection from all the air that’s going on around there, without anyone to guide and control it into timidity?