Everyone is shy --- it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to
live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying
shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come
first.
by: Kirkpatrick Sale
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
by: Tennyson
When you're worried, tell yourself the truth: Shyness is a strength
to build on, not a character flaw to be stamped out.
by: ``Shyness Is Not A Character Flaw" at the
Malvern School
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the
hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed
by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
by: Sir Henry Taylor
The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
by: Charles Horton Cooley
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped
up in something that you forget to be afraid.
by: Lady Bird Johnson
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the
torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery.
He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the
whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.
by: Jerome K. Jerome
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a
belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
by: André Dubus
