Top 100 Quotes About Afraid
#1. A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
Les Brown
#2. Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.
Penelope J. Stokes
#3. The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.
Russell Crowe
#4. I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'
Joel Edgerton
#5. I'm afraid sometimes certain individual cases of defaults are unavoidable. What we should do is to step up monitoring, properly handle relevant matters, and ensure there is no regional and systemic financial risk.
Li Keqiang
#6. I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.
Cesar Chavez
#7. We need to prepare for the inevitable collapse that's going to happen. Yes, I say that as a politician on stage. It's going to happen. We should look it at as an opportunity, not as something to be afraid of.
Matt Shea
#9. Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
#10. The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
Joyce Meyer
#11. In your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.
Jerry Rubin
#12. Don't be afraid of new arenas.
Elon Musk
#13. I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.
Anja Niedringhaus
#14. Take my hand, don't be afraid. I'm wanna prove every word I say.
Otis Redding
#15. I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.
Sandra Cisneros
#16. It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.
Vladimir Putin
#17. Bring mine unopened, with a napkin and an opener. (Blaine)
What? Afraid I'm going to spit in it, big boy? (Aimee)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.
James Cash Penney
#19. Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger than space and older than time. It gives courage against all the misfortunes of life. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Leo Tolstoy
#20. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
#21. He is a sort of steady man in a wild way, you know. That's better than to be as some are, wild in a steady way. I am afraid that's how I am.
Thomas Hardy
#22. In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness ... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.
Louise J. Kaplan
#23. When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.
Lionel Shriver
#24. You start seeing things that you're afraid of ... or things you've always wished for.
Eowyn Ivey
#25. They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science.
Susan Meissner
#26. He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.
Spencer Johnson
#27. Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.
Margaret Atwood
#28. I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.
Shirley Maclaine
#29. Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#30. Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.
Edward Hoagland
#31. I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
Gabrielle Zevin
#32. Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
Vera Wang
#33. Oh, don't be afraid of being a skeptic, Patrick," Elsie said. "It's the duty of each generation to examine the 'wisdom' passed on by the previous generation. We'd
Tom Phelan
#34. We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#35. The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
Noam Chomsky
#36. ...I can't sleep, because I'm afraid I'll start dreaming...
Judith McNaught
#37. The left's idea of science is that we should all be riding bicycles and using the Clivus Multrum composting latrines instead of flush toilets. Anyone who dissents, they say - while adjusting their healing crystals for emphasis - is afraid of science.
Ann Coulter
#38. Most people are good," says Jim. "But not when they're afraid.
Daniel H. Wilson
#39. If they were afraid of him, then he must be Satan or something even worse, like maybe Sarah Palin.
Stephani Hecht
#40. I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde
#41. The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.
Tom Spanbauer
#42. Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.
Orson Scott Card
#43. Your words can change the course of your life, don't be afraid.
Annisa Swanson
#44. I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir.
Lizzie K. Foley
#45. Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get to know it so well, you're not afraid of it anymore.
Christopher McDougall
#46. It felt like he'd been pushing himself into my life from the very first time I dreamt of him. Ever since, my life had slowly chipped away into pieces that didn't seem to fit together anymore. I was afraid that if they ever came together, it would be far from the life i hoped it would be.
L.J. Kentowski
#47. Dad: someone who hopes his son will turn out just like him,
and who is afraid his daughters will meet someone who did.
John Walter Bratton
#48. Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.
Francis Fukuyama
#49. A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Akash Lal Karotia
#50. Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too," I said. "But he went on. I expect you to do the same.
Stephen King
#51. I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being; to have the courage to accept despair is to be.
Michael Novak
#52. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.
C. JoyBell C.
#53. We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Marcel Proust
#54. For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism ... We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.
Terence McKenna
#55. I'm not afraid to die. I'm just unwilling.
B.B. Reid
#56. I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
Audre Lorde
#57. Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.
Monica Johnson
#58. I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?
Valerie Bertinelli
#59. The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.
Agnes Sanford
#61. We waste too much time being afraid, when what we should really fear is wasting time.
Stephanie Shirley
#62. Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once. One never need be afraid of catching it a second time.
Jerome K. Jerome
#63. The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.
Ewan McGregor
#64. We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of ... we are afraid of what we think.
Michael Neill
#65. As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!
Richard Rohr
#66. I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.
Maggie Stiefvater
#67. I'm not afraid," Rafi said.
"Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.
Mark Helprin
#68. I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship
Giovanna Fletcher
#69. So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.
Jack Reynor
#70. you aren't alone because you are ugly or unattractive - you are alone because everyone, including you, is afraid to express themselves - practice self expression and the world is yours
David Charles Cain
#71. The Lord is the stronghold of my life - of whom should I be afraid? Psalm 27:1
Beth Moore
#72. I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy Connolly
#73. Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!
Sheryl Sandberg
#74. I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Philip Levine
#75. Funny how growing up can change your opinion of being afraid of the dark and afraid of the bills.
Amelia Hutchins
#76. Afraid?" he growled, irritated she could affect his senses so easily. "No," she snapped. "Not even just a little?
Monica Burns
#77. Don't be afraid to grow up, Peter. It's only a trap if you forget how to fly.
Jorge Enrique Ponce
#78. On Being Afraid to Use the Elementary School Bathrooms to Defecate
Son, you're complaining to the wrong man. I can shit anywhere, at any time. It's one of my finer qualities. Some might say my finest.
Justin Halpern
#79. Americans are clearly more afraid than at any time since 9/11. In Los Angeles, 650 schoolchildren didn't go to - 650,000 schoolchildren didn't go to school because of an e-mail threat, this two weeks after an attack killed 14 people in San Bernardino.
Wolf Blitzer
#80. You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.
Rosie O'Donnell
#81. It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.
Seth Rogen
#82. I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.
Matthew Diamond
#83. This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. Love without fear . . ." Miss Foster murmured, considering the notion. "It doesn't sound very practical, I'm afraid. For the more one loves, the more one has to fear losing." He looked at her, a grin tugging his mouth. "Impractical, maybe. Difficult, yes. But what a beautiful way to live.
Julie Klassen
#85. I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.
Nikki Reed
#86. While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try,
Well how can I say I'm alive.
Dido
#87. Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.
Tiko Kerr
#89. His muse walked the streets with the others but she wore galoshes and was terribly afraid of being recognized.
Harold Nicolson
#90. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#91. If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#92. I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.
Lisa Guerrero
#93. The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#94. Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.
Harvey Weinstein
#95. I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.
Anthony Bourdain
#96. When you love, you are not lonely. The sense of loneliness arises only when you are frightened of being alone and of not knowing what to do. When you are controlled by ideas, isolated by beliefs, then fear is inevitable; and when you are afraid, you are completely blind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#98. I'm strong and fearless and not afraid to take risks in business.
Khloe Kardashian
#99. Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.
Jean Kerr
#100. Be not afraid to love. Be accepting. Keep open your heart with a kind mind.
Debasish Mridha
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