Top 100 Afraid To Say Quotes
#1. I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!
Alex Flinn
#2. I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
Vance Havner
#3. Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?
William F. Buckley Jr.
#4. I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life
Alan Bradley
#5. I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.
Becki Newton
#6. My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.
Eva Hart
#7. We so much want social connection that we become afraid to say something that might make another person reject us. And yet, being vulnerable and having empathy are the most connecting things we can practice.
Iben Dissing Sandahl
#8. I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years
James Baldwin
#9. When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect.
Miguel Ruiz
#10. Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
Maya Angelou
#11. I cannot look at you with anything other than abhorrence, much less affection! I couldn't bare your presence when we were children and, I'm afraid to say, the repulsive way at which you have grown to be has made it even worse! You have taken everything from me...
Madeline Courtney
#12. I little miss that part, why you want to kill me??
Because I'm not afraid of choosing and you are??
I'm clever and this is like a gift and you are stupid and you can't say it. Because your self confidence goes lower and lower.
Deyth Banger
#13. I want to say It's okay to be a person. We're all afraid. We all get hurt. It's okay to hurt. You'd be so much more likable if you just acted human.
Jennifer Niven
#14. But the first thing that we have to do is to say, I walk towards the tunnel, and I'm on my own, and I'm not afraid. And I have no regrets.
Jonathan Bowden
#15. A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.
Anne McCaffrey
#16. I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.
Wale
#17. Don't be afraid to say "No". It's empowering. Remember, a "Yes" is a commitment. Give them wisely.
Sharon Law Tucker
#18. I rolled my eyes. "He's talking to himself. My vote is he's crazy."
He thought about this. "Maybe he's normal and we're the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we're all just afraid of what we'd say.
Katie Kacvinsky
#19. Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.
Rachael Ray
#20. I am no longer afraid to say anything.
Anna Freud
#21. It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.
Christian De Duve
#22. Don't be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve. For myself, for a long time - maybe I felt inauthentic or something. I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing. I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say... say it from the rooftops! That's what I would say.
Tom Hiddleston
#23. The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.
Martha Beck
#24. Hello," I said stiffly.
His smile split into a full grin."So nice to see you again."
"Always a pleasure." My lie sounded robotic, but hopefully it was better than sounding afraid.
"No,no," he said. "The pleasure's all mine."
"If you say so,"I said.
Richelle Mead
#25. Don't be afraid to ask. All they can say is no....and they might say yes.
Lorri Moulton
#26. I know there was nothing anyone could do. But they were taking away an 86-year-old grandmother to a horrible death, and the village where she had lived all her life, where everybody loved her, had just looked on. The only thing that anyone had had to say was, 'Mrs. Bloch, don't be afraid ...
Heda Margolius Kovaly
#27. I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#28. The female in his carriage didn't say a word, merely turned and stare at him with doelike brown eyes.
Was she too afraid to speak?
Karen Ranney
#29. Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.
Guy Lafleur
#30. If you really care about Charlotte, don't be afraid to tell her. Believe me, it will hurt her a lot more not hearing the words than it will hurt you to say them.
J.S. Goldstine
#31. I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
Christopher Hitchens
#32. Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#33. Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' And a lot of men don't admit that.
Rita Ora
#34. When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.
George Foreman
#35. People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was bad in that movie.' We see so many films that we can tell who's faking it. But with art, we can't always tell.
William Quigley
#36. I'm not afraid to fail ... I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.
Mother Angelica
#37. Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say ... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.
Oscar Wilde
#38. Occasionally, don't be afraid to say: This is what we deserve.
Ted Egan
#39. It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."
Questlove
#40. How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.
Marcus Aurelius
#41. Was that what she meant? Why she cried? Because he was an animal afraid to leave its cage, no words to say what he thought, no thoughts but muddled mad stupid thoughts?
Laura Kinsale
#42. Your answer is yes, you would. You're afraid to say it out loud because you know, once you do, it makes it real - this thing between us - and then you won't be able to stop it from happening. What, deep down inside, you know is inevitable.
Samantha Towle
#43. I like to do things that frighten me. When I'm afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, 'I should do it. If I don't do it, no one will do it for me.
David Grossman
#44. Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have been.
Charles Dickens
#45. People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.
Bassem Youssef
#46. I think men are afraid to say that they would love to have Michelle Obama in their bed, but they think it.
Eddie Griffin
#47. I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours?
But I had promised.
Jojo Moyes
#48. I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.
Stephen Moyer
#49. I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.'
'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say.
'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.
R.L. LaFevers
#50. It's amazing how much you can find to say when there's one big thing you're too afraid to say: 'This isn't working.
Caitlin Moran
#51. In Attractions, don't be afraid to say "no". I was tentative at first because I didn't want to cause problems. However, you must get into people's faces in Attractions. You are actually trained to yell at guests if necessary.
Julianna Cavallo
#52. O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Walt Whitman
#53. Writers searching for their voice: Whatever you're afraid to say, whatever burns inside you, say it with conviction. You don't need a class for that.
Gregor Collins
#55. Leaving for the night, it came to me. What I should have told her. Life goes on - that's what I should have said. That's what you say to people when a loved one dies. But, thinking it over, I was glad I didn't. Because maybe that's what she was afraid of.
Stephen King
#56. He kissed my tears away and whispered sweet words into my ears. Words that he was too afraid to say out loud. He told me I was beautiful. That I was perfect in every way. And that, unconditionally, I was his.
A. Zavarelli
#57. Experts say that Britain and France have strong spy agencies; Germany's is competent but afraid to level with its public; the rest are relatively weak, and there is no Europe-wide spy agency.
David Ignatius
#58. I've said it before, and by gosh, I'll say it again - don't be afraid to toot your own horn.
Emlyn Chand
#59. People ask me all the time why I write. I do realize that one day I will have to answer this question, most likely in front of a large crowd. But how do you tell the truth when you struggle just to write it? How do you admit that the words are just salve to the things you are too afraid to say?
Kacey Vanderkarr
#60. But if the feelings are mutual, I open my heart without restriction. I'm not afraid to say 'I love you'.
Bill Kaulitz
#61. Never be afraid to do what's right. If no one ever says anything, nothing ever changes.
Chris Kluwe
#62. You say that I'm afraid of being alone, and it's true. I am. And I'm not proud of it. But you need to take a good look at yourself, Anna, because I am NOT the only one in this room who suffers this problem.
Stephanie Perkins
#63. An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I'm afraid to say, has been understood.
Jo Nesbo
#64. It was easier to blame myself than to say that it was an accident that I had no control over. Losing control is one of the scariest things. That's why people are afraid of the dark. Or death. They're afraid of not being in control.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#65. If everything you say gets laughed at ...
then you become afraid of everyone ...
and are no longer able to speak ...
even knowing all that does is bother everyone ...
Your heart ...
... shuts down ...
And your words die ...
Natsuki Takaya
#66. There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.
Toby Keith
#67. I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.
George Lopez
#68. I make big shots everywhere. I get accustomed to it. I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what you (reporters) say about me in the papers. In fact, I like it. It tickles me.
Sam Cassell
#69. What's the point of lying about anything? We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come and eat us anyway and we'll regret not doing all that stuff we wished we did.
Patrick Ness
#70. You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy.
Selena Gomez
#71. I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'
Alan Parker
#72. I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.
Jamaica Kincaid
#73. We have to report this."
Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves."
"Don't be ridiculous," Irene said briskly. "We may collect fiction, but we are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.
Genevieve Cogman
#74. We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#75. (W)rite the things you have the most to say about and the things you're afraid of messing up.
Emily Henry
#76. I'd heard someone say that bravery was doing the thing you were afraid to do, despite your fear. If that was true I was the bravest person I knew
Chloe Neill
#77. I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.
Sylvia Robinson
#78. I've always thought there was something so incredibly sexy about a wedding ring on a man's finger. It tells the world he has pledged himself to someone and isn't afraid to say so. Everyone you meet will know you're taken. I like that.
Then I'll never take it off.
Marie Force
#79. My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson.
Miranda Lambert
#80. In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.
Meghan Daum
#81. I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."
Junot Diaz
#82. True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid; "it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid.
Alexander MacLaren
#83. What are you afraid of," she said. "Daylight?"
No. I'm afraid of you. I'm afraid of myself, of whatever it is I'm going to do or say to make it all go wrong. I'm desperately trying to avoid that moment and walking straight toward it, all at the same time.
"I'm just tired," I said.
Jenny Valentine
#84. Love is a flicker. It's that hidden desire. It's the words you're afraid to say. It's stolen glances. It's the passive-aggressive hints. It's the mixed signal. It's the first brush against his hand. It's the first time you daydream about her.
Nessie Q.
#85. Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.
Sue Wicks
#86. I have to help you, Ash. I can't say no to what you're asking, but I'm afraid I'll hurt you in this process. I won't mean to, but I will.
Annabel Joseph
#87. And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
Joe Eszterhas
#88. I have looked evil in the eye, my friend. I am afraid to say it does not blink.
Adrian Cole
#89. I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.
Cristie Kerr
#90. Maybe there's something you're afraid to say or someone you're afraid to love or somewhere you're afraid to go
John Green
#91. Don't be afraid to say how you feel, Dylan. Holding things inside is what gets people in trouble.
Carolee Dean
#92. I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts will be very well looked after.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#93. In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about means, rarely about ends ... It is as if we are a nation of technicians, consumed by our expertise in how something should be done, afraid or incapable of thinking about why.
Neil Postman
#94. Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.
Lisa Vidal
#95. And I know you're not supposed to say 'Nazi Germany,' but I don't care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
Benjamin Carson
#96. The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.
Seth Godin
#97. I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.
Mika Brzezinski
#99. Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Charles Spurgeon
#100. Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.
Sarah Silverman
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