Quotes on Timid

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.