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Timid or arrogant, Charming or infuriating, and Catherine was falling, falling, falling.
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.
Shyness takes so many different forms. Some people are shy and soft. Some, shy and hard. Or in Josh's case, shy, and wrapped in military-grade armor. "Josh,
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive
You are tepid if you carry out listlessly and reluctantly those things that have to do with our Lord; if deliberately or 'shrewdly' you look for some way of lessening your duties; if you think only of yourself and your comfort;
I'm very cagey by nature.
I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!
Chess is not for timid souls.
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.
HIs slower mind could not keep pace with her swift reactions; his emotions, not easily aroused, were still less easily subdued. Always he felt himself left far behind her, dull, clumsy, insensitive, too fond, too gross, too awkward.
I'm a girly girl. I'm strong, but I'm very timid. Very dainty.
I'm painfully shy.
The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.
Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
Be courageous: be still.
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Comfortable; made the courageous weak
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
I've always thought of myself as shy.
I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
As a little kid, I was very shy.
You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.
Scared is scared of things you like.
I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be called that as rash.
I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
A Coy Aversion
...a flutter
too shy
to be seen...
Part of me is very shy.
What is courage without fear?
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
You can be fearful or fearless ... I chose the latter
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.
Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
Fearless to the strong; humble to the weak,
The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty
or anything else.
A shy man no doubt dreads the notice of strangers, but can hardly be said to be afraid of them. He may be as bold as a hero in battle, and yet have no self-confidence about trifles in the presence of strangers.
Charles Darwin
I was painfully shy as a child.
Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.
I'm a shy human being.
The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time.
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.
I'm guarded; I don't talk much.
Call it anything else if you will - fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating
- but "shyness" is the historic word for it.
And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
Fear is a hurdle that stops the expression
Unacknowledged fear is a weakness,
motionless, waiting
I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.
True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
Passive...Aggressive...Pussy.
A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
I was on the shy side at school (one school report called me 'diffident') and Braefield had added a special timidity, but when I had a natural wonder... I lost all my diffidence, and freely approached others, all my fear forgotten.
When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.
I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.
Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
Gentle. Which people see as weak.
You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.
A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way
Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.
She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.
And it seems to me that everyone is like me - they're all afraid of the slightest movement ... Everyone's sitting all closed up in his own glass cage waiting for something.
All tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.
sometimes decided to be truculent and unyielding, like a grouchy toddler -
I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
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.
Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.
When inhibition has become the de facto setting in a person's manner, stiffness and lack of spontaneity produces an unnatural self-repression. Life looks gray, dull, and rigid, without space for relaxation or play to burst forth in natural ways.
The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.