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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. (Quote by - Vernon Baker)

When you're worried, tell yourself the truth: Shyness is a strength to build on, not a character flaw to be stamped out. (Quote by - Shyness is not a character flaw at the Malvern School)

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success. (Quote y - Kahlil Gibran)

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all it's shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. (Quote y - James Douglas)

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more. (Quote by - Priscilla Presley)

The shell must break before the bird can fly. (Quote by - Tennyson)

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. (Quote by - Kirkpatrick Sale)

A customer who often comes to my restaurant and always enchants me for his simplicity, shyness and self-irony is film director Woody Allen. (Quote by - Arrigo Cipriani)

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special. (Quote by - Michael C. Hall)

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow. (Quote by - Gwen John)

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. (Quote by - André Dubus)

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy. (Quote by - Chanakya)

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness. (Quote by - Clea Duvall)

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense. (Quote by - Francois de la Rochefoucauld)

His shyness is hurting him. He is pulling out of public appearances lately and it's been widely noticed. He's been pulling back when he should be campaigning. (Quote by - Tom O'Neil)

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that. (Quote by - Stephanie Beacham)

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak. (Quote by - Linda Evangelista)

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth. (Quote by - Penelope Keith)

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. (Quote by - Philip Zimbardo)

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes. (Quote by - Jonathan Katz)

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. (Quote y - Tennessee Williams)

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. (Quote by - Claudia Lady Bird Johnson)

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