In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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.'
To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
I was a reflective child.
Necessity makes even the timid brave.