Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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