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

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

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.
Alicia Machado

Chess is not for timid souls.
Wilhelm Steinitz

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

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

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

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

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

If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
John W. Holt, Jr.

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

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.
Alphonsus Liguori

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

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

Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
Dana Rohrabacher

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.
Thomas Moore

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

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

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.
Don Drysdale