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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

I love it when you talk clean to me, quoting training manuals like sonnets. — Amanda Hocking

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse. — Ruby Wax

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. — Alexander Pope

Even the smallest person can make a big diffidence! — OMAR

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

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir

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

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now. — Woodrow Wilson

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 myself
are 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

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. — George Washington