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«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.»
«To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak»
«Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.»
«The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.»
«The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.»
«The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason a»
«The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.»
«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.»
«Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | Keywords: hill, Some of, timid, try for
«Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty»

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