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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

David Gayson

Idleness, women, disorder, a foolish partiality for one's own native place, discontent and timidity are six obstructions to greatness.

Hitopadesa

[Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo] epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. ... lapdog news media.

Frank Rich

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Gwen John