Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
I Am Shy Person Quotes
I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am. — Nicola Sturgeon
I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work! — Tracee Ellis Ross
People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy. — Joel Madden
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person. — Tom Ford
I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. — Enya
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy. — Joshua Lederberg
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life. — N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be. — Crystal Waters
When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise. — Taylor Swift
In real life, I'm very shy, but people think I'm this angry, sexy kind of - god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I'm definitely not the person you see in pictures. — Lara Stone
Motivational Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are...
No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt — Miyamoto Musashi
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
Very Shy Person Quotes
I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree. — Bai Ling
I'm a very outgoing person so I like girls who are not afraid to be themselves. I'm not a shy person.I like conversations and I'm a really big sucker for personality. — Zac Efron
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often. — Brian Wilson
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world. — Deepika Padukone
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. — Charles Dickens
I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. — Charlotte Gainsbourg
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships. — Gabriela Sabatini
I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe. — Patti Stanger
Physically? If you've got really beautiful eyes, you have me in a trance right from the beginning. As far as personality, I'm attracted to really shy girls. Someone who knows who they are and is very genuine. That is just so sexy to me. — Ryan Guzman
Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends. — Curtis Joseph
Shy Type Quotes
The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac. — John Lanchester
I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type. — John Green
Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy. — Denise Van Outen
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type. — Al Pacino
[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy. — Malcolm X
I wasn't a falling-in-the-gutter type. I drank at home because it relaxed me. I was shy around new people, but after a drink or two, I became more sociable. — Dick Van Dyke
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with. — Jenna Fischer
What can I say? I’m a sucker for the shy, quiet types. — Julie James
The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design. — Steve Wozniak
Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born. — Sayings
Shy Guy Quotes
I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy. — Tim Hawkins
I've always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I'll chat away. — Retief Goosen
I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing. — Silvia Colloca
Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!
I'm like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It's very slowed down here. I like it that way. I'm a guy that's very reserved, quiet and shy myself. — Kevin Durant
One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you. — Laurie Helgoe
I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside... I'm really a shy guy. — Milo Ventimiglia
What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another eprson, what you do to another person - you do to you. Give judgement and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.
'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny. — Colin Hanks
I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention. — Kim Kardashian
I believe Donald Trump is the best guy for president; and I'm not going to shy away and I take the risk. I could just stay home and don't talk about any candidate. — Joe Arpaio
I'm a pretty shy guy when it comes to girls and sex. — Justin Vernon
Being Shy Quotes
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow. — Sylvie Guillem
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. — Lady Bird Johnson
You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky. — Douglas Pagels
I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart — Annette Funicello
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.' — Jude Law
I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant. — Alberto Tomba
In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in. — Anna Wintour
A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn’t be more fortunate to call my family — from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said he’s like a Gary Cooper. He’s bashful, he’s shy, he’s sensitive, he’s a great actor, he’s beautiful, he’s delicious. — Ellen Greene
When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that. — Mike Tyson
Shyness Quotes
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others! — S. R. Ranganathan
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others. — Chogyam Trungpa
Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness — Kanye West
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace. — Vernon Baker
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons it teaches are tainted by its own toxicity. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Approval seeking behavior is not masculine. It is creepy, stalker-like behavior. — Corey Wayne
Fearless doesn’t mean careless. There is a thin line between fearless and careless. I think we need to play fearless. — Smriti Mandhana
They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head. — Izabella Scorupco
Feeling Shy Quotes
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it. — Jarvis Cocker
I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me. — Chris Brown
It is said that I'm distant and cold. I'm just someone who's very shy. I'm not comfortable doing interviews because I have to talk about myself. To talk about yourself, you have to know yourself pretty well and I feel like there are still some shades in me that I don't know about. — Kristen Stewart
Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither. — Kay Redfield Jamison
I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward. — Michael Bergin
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody. — Chris Evert
Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering. — Brandi Chastain
I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about. — Nigella Lawson
The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness. — Clea DuVall
Shy Girl Quotes
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison. — Benazir Bhutto
But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I seem like a big bombastic outgoing dude, when it comes down to it with the ladies, when I was a single, free-wheeling dude, I was always very shy. It was difficult to form sentences with the girl of my dreams. — Jack Black
Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch. — Joel Kinnaman
I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls. — Rupert Graves
From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. — Anna Dostoyevskaya
Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are. — Steve Carell
When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got. — Summer Glau
I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people. — Allegra Huston
I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl. — Lizzy Caplan
I Am Shy Quotes
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart. — J. B. Priestley
Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did. — Carine Roitfeld
Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures. — Indra Nooyi
I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say. — Trent Reznor
I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups. — Steve Martin
I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people. — Glenn Close
From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around. — Johnny Carson
You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that. — John Leguizamo
If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that. — Andrew Lloyd Webber
They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist. — Mika
Ever since I was little, I've shied away from romance. It's not that I dislike women, but I'm not good with them. — Akira Toriyama
Awww, I was so shy about watching my own work broadcast on TV. — Akira Toriyama
I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person. — Layne Staley
I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me. — Steven Wright
I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations. — Deepika Padukone
Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done — Garrison Keillor
As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself. — Annie Leibovitz
I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind. — Zach Galifianakis
I was very shy growing up. My shyness manifested as a big personality, as opposed to the wallflower personality. It's been a journey getting comfortable in my skin. I've worked on trying to find the authentic balance between the bravado of my personality that was sort of a defense and the truth within my bigness. — Tracee Ellis Ross
I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous. — Clea DuVall
It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection. — Paul Merton
Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there. — Jonathan Carroll
I always want my shoes real clean. The front of my shoe is really like my personality, where off the court I'm kind of calm and kind of shy a little bit - low key. In the back, it's kind of crazy, just like me on the court. I love how both of my personalities are involved into the shoe. — Derrick Rose
I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you an abandon or a sense of courage that you would never have in your own life. — Cillian Murphy
I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon. — John J. Geddes
I want to resume the life of a shy person. — Garrison Keillor
Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera. — Kim Weston
Every shy person is a potential sex offender. — Nelson Rodrigues
One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move. — Jerry Spinelli
I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job. — Alexis Bledel
I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy. — Jonathan Lethem
Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage. — Ryan Holiday
The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it. — Javier Bardem
I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world. — Lisa Bonet
I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody. — Trevor Donovan
If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all. — Tobey Maguire
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