Diffidence Quotes
Collection of top 26 famous quotes about Diffidence
Diffidence Quotes & Sayings
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Sleep seems to be a friend who I've disappointed and no longer wants to come around.
— Candace Knoebel
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.
— Kevin McCarthy
It is our diffidence about the afterlife that leads us to religion
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.
— George Washington
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
— Walter Savage Landor
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
— Alexander Pope
Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
— William Hazlitt
A tardiness in nature,Which often leaves the history unspoke,
That it intends to do. — William Shakespeare
Resistance is its own reward.
— Haunani-Kay Trask
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
— Immanuel Wallerstein
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
— Alphonsus Liguori
We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.
— Lord Chesterfield
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myselfare identical. — Alexander MacLaren
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
— Norm MacDonald
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
— Aldo Leopold
Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.
— Charlotte Bronte
There is no love without desire, diffidence, defeat.
— Andre Aciman
