Shyness Quotes

• All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flirty, Women, Flirting

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• Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

  Steven Morrissey

  Nice, Things In Life

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• The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Smell, Shy

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• Never let shyness conquer your mind.

  Arfa Karim

  Mind, Conquer

  "Arfa Karim Randhawa Wins MCP – Interview". arfakarim.wordpress.com. January 14, 2012.

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• I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Lions, Shut Up, Introvert

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Fear, Business, Women

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• Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Want, Turns

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

  Kanye West

  Being Yourself, Believe, Conquer

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• I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

  Johnny Depp

  Hate, Shy, Use

  "I do not know what is sexy about me, says Johnny Depp". Interview with Aakanksha Naval-Shetye, www.dnaindia.com. May 21, 2012.

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  My feelings are too loud for words
  And too shy for the world.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Emotional, Feelings, Shy

  "Forgotten Home". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• the shell must break before the bird can fly.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wise, Motivation, Inspiration

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

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• Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

  Susan Cain

  Environment, Painful, Social

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

  Don Rickles

  Shy, Outgoing, Protect

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• I can do anything you want me to do so long as I dont have to speak

  Linda Evangelista

  Funny, Long, Want

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• And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Girl, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)".

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• Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

  Jonathan Katz

  Couple, Years, Shy

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• What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Technology, People, Faces

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• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Shy, Natural

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 17, 1811.

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• I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

  Louise Rennison

  Space, Long, Laughing

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• There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

  Priscilla Presley

  Needs, Shy

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• What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

  Kurt Masur

  Shy, Kind

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• Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.

  Saadi

  Causes, Severe, Boldness

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• I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Shy

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 2001.

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• I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Awkward, Majority, Shy

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