Definition of Timid

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Definition of Timid
	Timid Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Related Definitions: Bold, Courage, Danger, Easily, Fearful, Frightened, Meet, Not, Shy, Timorous, To, Wanting

Timid Quotations

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

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

Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust

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

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus

Timid Translations

timid in Danish is bange
timid in Dutch is benepen, beschroomd, bang
timid in German is befangen, furchtsam, furchtsam
timid in Italian is timoroso
timid in Latin is timidus
timid in Norwegian is sjenert

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