{"quotes":[{"text":"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["courage","despotism","liberty","life","timid"],"id":1963,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"If we learn the most by our mistakes the wise have the most failures. While the timid and unfailing will always be missing true knowledge and perspective.","author":"Gary Rudz","tags":["failure","knowledge","mistakes","timid","wisdom"],"id":4755,"author_id":"Gary+Rudz"},{"text":"Never become proud within yourself when you are seen as the one to cause that great effect. Never become timid if you know you can while others dare to prove otherwise! Mind your business and make the strike.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["business","change-the-world","dare","effect","food-for-thought","great","great-effect","israelmore-ayivor","make-a-change","make-a-difference","make-the-strike","mind","otherwise","pride","proud","prove","prove-otherwise","strike","strike-it","take-the-strike","timid"],"id":18397,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage.","author":"Constance Friday","tags":["audacity","bold","boldness","challenge","confront","courage","express","expression","expression-of-true-feelings","fight","freedom","outrage","power","rage","shy","timid"],"id":22454,"author_id":"Constance+Friday"},{"text":"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affluent","bashful","broke","confidence","confident","destitute","introvert","introverted","low-self-esteem","money","needy","penniless","poor","poverty","poverty-stricken","reserved","rich","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-esteem","sheepish","shy","shyness","timid","wealth","wealthy"],"id":86631,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart,I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for meto do, there alighted the fear, haunting me with the words that rangconstantly in my head, 'You're not brave enough'.I didn't feel devastated, I felt the urge to be devastated.","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["alone","balls","brave","bravery","coward","devastated","devastating","fear","grief","guts","haunting","impossible","life","lonely","melancholy","morose","nerves","not-brave-enough","sad","suicidal","tear","timid"],"id":97866,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["afraid","bear-in-mind","food-for-thought","humble","humility","inspirational","inspirations","israelmore-ayivor","motivational","motivations","personal-development","timid","timidity"],"id":117980,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["doubt","indecision","indecisiveness","insecure","insecurity","personal-growth","personal-growth","self-development","self-doubt","self-doubt","timid","timidity"],"id":126910,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravating","annoy","annoying","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","bashful","bashfulness","boldness","bothersome","can-do","confident","coolheaded","courage","coyness","cursed","demureness","diffidence","diffident","embarrassed","embarrassment","exasperating","extrovert","extroverted","farouche","funny","galling","girl","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","infuriating","inhibited","insecure","introversion","introvert","introverted","irksome","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","lack-of-confidence","levelheaded","maddening","man","men","mettle","mousiness","mousy","nerve","nervous","nettlesome","obnoxious","pesky","phlegm","phlegmatic","poise","poised","positive","quotations","quotes","repressed","reserve","reserved","reservedness","reticence","reticent","retiring","satire","self-assurance","self-assured","self-confidence","self-confident","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-effacing","self-possessed","self-possession","self-reliant","sheepish","sheepishness","shy","shyness","timid","timidity","timidness","timorous","timorousness","tiresome","together","troublesome","trying","unconfident","unperturbed","unruffled","vexatious","vexing","withdrawn"],"id":173966,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I'm like my cat. I run around in circles in my apartment, because the big bad outside is just too big. And scary. And outside. How do stray cats deal with all the stress of having no protection from all the air that’s going on around there, without anyone to guide and control it into timidity?","author":"Will Advise","tags":["air","apartment","around","big","cat","cats","circles","control","guidance","guide","guiding","large","meek","meekness","meow","mind-control","nothing","outside","protection","running","stress","timid","timidity"],"id":197448,"author_id":"Will+Advise"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}