Quotes of Shy - somelinesforyou

“ Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Miss Child is never bashful with butter. ”

- Phil Donahue

“ I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest. ”

- Nicholas Negroponte

“ Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude. ”

- Nick Carter

“ I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball. ”

- Bill Walton

“ The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. ”

- Milton Berle

“ 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

“ Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. ”

- Paul Harvey

“ The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To the timid soul, nothing is possible. ”

- John Bach

“ To the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible because it seems so. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ It well becomes a young man to be modest. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The bashful are always aggressive at heart. ”

- Charles Horton Cooley

“ To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly, it is to be humane. ”

- Jane Harrison

“ Zealous, not modest. ”

- James Beattie

“ Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ”

- Horace

“ Retiring is getting ready to die. ”

- Rodger Ward

“ Freedom is not for the timid. ”

- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

“ Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak…Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win. ”

- Cesar Chavez

“ We think a great crisis is coming for Europe. The last thing Britain should do is associate ourselves with the fastest shrinking part of the world economy. ”

- William Hague

“ Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy. ”

- Ted Knight

“ And softly through the altered airHurries a timid leaf. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. ”

- Donald Trump

“ If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president. ”

- Bill Bradley

“ From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. ”

- Anna Dostoevsky

“ It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ”

- James Douglas
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