Diffidence Quotes (16 quotes)

“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The average person’s self-esteem is so low that they are way less frequently surprised that they love someone than they are surprised that someone loves them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: confidence, confident, diffidence, diffident, high-self-esteem, low-self-esteem, self-deprecation, self-esteem, self-hate, self-love

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“Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: alluring, bashful, chastened-humility, deferential, desirable, diffidence, diffident, hot, humble, humbleness, life, luscious, lush, meek, meekness, modest, modesty, nubile, provocative, respectful, seductive, self-deprecating, self-effacing, sensual, sex, sexy, shy, slinky, subdued, submissive, sultry, tantalizing, tempting, toothsome, turn-off, turn-on, unassertive, unassertiveness, unassuming, unpresuming, voluptuous

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“A world full of "certainties"
All the plans, all the vanities.
Where black covers the white
Suited in "confidence"- the constant fight.
A million roads I dream to take
One destination, knowing not I turn where.
A green veil covers for two years, some two decades.
But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make.
I pant, I struggle, I do my best
While they say,
"You are, dear, but so inadequate".”
― Sanhita Baruah

tags: ambitions, ambitious, arrogance, aspirations, best, black, black-suit, campus-life, certain, certainty, college-life, confidence, confidence-vs-arrogance, corporate, corporate-life, demons, diffidence, dream-company, dream-job, dreams, education, expectations, fight, firms, group-discussions, inadequate, inner-fight, interviews, job-life, lies, life, mba, not-enough, not-good-enough, people, planning, plans, pride, process, protect, protection, realities, school, society, start-up, struggle, suit-up, suited-up, uncertain, uncertainty, unplanned, white, work-life-balance

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“Some people are so self-conscious that they are unable to make eye contact for longer than a second, even when they are wearing dark sunglasses.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: diffidence, diffident, extrovert, eye-contact, introvert, low-self-esteem, reserved, self-conscious, shy, shyness

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“High-priced possessions are all too often used as makeup … to hide low self-esteem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: confidence, diffidence, expensive, high-priced, high-self-esteem, low-self-esteem, materialism, minimalism, possessions, self-esteem

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“Every sane adult is insecure about at least one thing on or about them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: confidence, confident, diffidence, diffident, insecure, insecurity, low-self-esteem, self-esteem, self-hate, self-love

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“People who stutter are less diffident or more confident in winter.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: confidence, confident, diffidence, diffident, season, seasons, stutter, stutterer, stuttering, winter

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“Shyness is cute in children, but disgusting in adults.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adult, child, confidence, confident, diffidence, diffident, extrovert, introvert, shy, shyness

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“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: belief, beliefs, buddhism, confidence, diffidence, self-development, self-esteem, self-help, self-limiting, stoicism

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“Like fear, doubt greatly reduces the potency of our effort.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: competition, confidence, diffidence, doubt, effort, entrepreneurship, failure, fear, phobia, success

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“Anyway you looked at it, I had little choice but to bray along with the others. It was too late now. I had let my diffidence and dislike for exhibitionism get the better of me.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

tags: diffidence, herd-mentality

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“Intelligence is suffocated by things such as cowardice and diffidence.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: confidence, courage, coward, cowardice, diffidence, diffident, introvert, personal-development, shy, shyness

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“Some adults are so self-conscious that they are unable to look, for longer than two seconds, a child or even an animal in the eye.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adult, adults, children, confidence, diffidence, eye-contact, self-conscious, self-consciousness, shy, shyness

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“We sometimes allow someone—because of their confidence and our uncertainty—to ‘correct’ us where we are right, and they are wrong.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: books, confidence, diffidence, impression, knowledge, library, reading, right, uncertainty, wrong

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“There must be something--
someone to praise
your triumphant diffidence,
your refusal of exertion,
the intelligence
that pulsed in the sensitive,
pale concavities of your forehead.”
― Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead

tags: diffidence, ease, intelligence, poem, poetry, praise, self

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