Best 116 quotes in «shyness quotes» category

Shyness blocks and breaks routes toward the fraternizing with others and success of career and life.

Shyness is a safety mechanism to save you from the fear of being wrong, and the ridicule that comes along with it. As human beings, we crave love, acceptance, and belonging. As part of this, we fear the opposite: shame and ridicule. If we lack confidence in ourselves, we constantly fear this—and seek external validation.

Shyness is born from a lack of self-confidence and fear of ridicule. In my case it latched on to the young boy who didn’t have confidence in himself or his abilities after being belittled by his first-grade teacher. Introversion, on the other hand, is a tremendous gift that allows for inquisitive curiosity about life. Introversion created in this young boy a fascination with life, nature, science, creativity, and imagination.

Shyness is cute in children, but disgusting in adults.

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.

Shyness in the young may be charming to look at but is painful to the one who suffers it.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone's eyes can mesmerize me for years!

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them." (Initiation)

Some people are extroverts only when they are drunk.

Tess is a bit shy," her mother used to tell people in an audible whisper, her hand over her mouth. "Gets it from her father, I'm afraid." Tess had heard the cheerful disrespect in her mother's voice and had come to believe that any form of shyness was wrong- morally wrong, in fact. You should want to go to parties. You should want to be surrounded by people. No wonder she felt so ashamed of her shyness, as if it were an embarrassing physical ailment that needed to be hidden at all costs.

So, what's up with you and Damian?" Helena asks. "What do you mean?" I can feel the hear of a blush coloring on my cheeks. I can't ever seem to not show how I feel. It's becoming pretty annoying.

The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation.

The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars.

The idea that you are not good enough and that people will not like you is something that has been ingrained into your mind over many years. You have hundreds of experiences that you can call up as evidence of the fact that people will not like you -- and that things will not turn out well. These ideas are incredibly convincing. They compel us to hesitate, to shy away, and to avoid the situations -- and people -- that we find frightening. This sets up a reinforcing cycle, where we avoid reaching out, don't get good responses from others as a result, and then gain further evidence that we are not worthy. In order to truly overcome your social anxiety at a deep, gut level, you must repeatedly take bold action. It is only through trying something new, and with a different perspective, that you learn to see the world and the people around you in a different light.

The mind speaks louder than the voice.

The misfortune of solitary and timid people - who are timid from self-consciousness - is just that, though they have eyes and indeed open them wide, they see nothing, or see everything in a false light, as though through coloured spectacles.

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable...

The more you talk, the less people listen.

Verlegenheid is als je je afkeert van iets wat je wilt. Schaamte is als je je afkeert van iets wat je niet wilt.

There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to find the right thing to say and didn't trust the etiquette pendulum swinging in her head, so she simply said nothing, which was perceived either as painful shyness of haughtiness. Dasha never had that problem. She just said the first thing that came into her head. Tatiana knew she needed to rust her inner voice more. It was certainly loud enough

This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas - politics, war, distant countries, tyrants. Men who would bury their heads in such stuff just to avert their eyes from a woman's simple heartache.

und diese war so lebendig und so gesprächig und machte sich aus seiner Gegenwart und aus seiner Schüchternheit so wenig, daß er unbehilflich und ein wenig beleidigt die Fühler einzog und sich verkroch, wie eine vom Wagenrad gestreifte Wegschnecke.

When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?

Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!" How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.

We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alice"--but he was only interesting to look at, for he was the silliest and shyest full-grown man I have ever met except "Uncle Remus.

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

When I realized that I was an introvert and what that meant, I actually became more outgoing, more confident in social situations, and began to enjoy scenarios I used to find unbearable. Why? Because, in understanding what I needed with respect to replenishing my energy, I was able to set limits and boundaries that freed me to be more engaged.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

You're not shy. You just like who you like.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

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

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

Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

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.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

A butterfly did not touch earth by her eyes, because she showed an irresistible fluorescence colour of shyness!

Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously.