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
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul
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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