Top 100 Quotes About Being Afraid
#1. Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#2. The key to warriorship and the first principle of Shambhala vision is not being afraid of who you are. Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
#3. Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid
Robert Liparulo
#4. Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.
Willow Smith
#5. Fear in the biblical sense ... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.
Edward T. Welch
#6. Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn't at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.
Russell Hoban
#7. To evangelize, therefore, it is necessary to open ourselves once again to the horizon of God's Spirit, without being afraid of what he asks us or of where he leads us.
Pope Francis
#8. One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
Dustin Hoffman
#9. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.
Eve Ensler
#10. Don't you see? You can't be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.
Teri Hall
#11. When are we going to stop being afraid to push for change and begin putting into action the things we have discussed for centuries? Mental health cannot wait any longer. Lets get to work!
Tamara Hill
#12. Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.
J'son M. Lee
#13. When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, "You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything."
Neko Case
#14. Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything hostile in the world gone and overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as time would have been put out of existence by one's thoughts?
Hermann Hesse
#15. Being afraid wouldn't find justice for the family---this boy seemed to understand that.
Kerri Maniscalco
#16. Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway.
Oprah Winfrey
#17. Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow.
Dan Gemeinhart
#18. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow
Dan Rather
#19. When the river takes me I don't try to swim or stay afloat. I open my eyes and my mouth and let the water fill me up. I feel my lungs spasm but there's no pain, and I stop being afraid. The current carries me along. I'm flotsam, and I understand that flotsam is all I've ever been.
Hillary Jordan
#20. The staying still was the worst part. The waiting and not-knowing and being afraid: That was worse than anything else that might happen.
Ali Benjamin
#21. I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies.
Albert Einstein
#22. You can only be brave by being afraid. Embrace what you are scared of and shift its energy to destroy your fears.
Joel Brown
#23. The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.
Christopher Rice
#24. Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
John Irving
#25. Now that I've found you, it scares me witless to think of anything happening. To you. I'm not used to being ... afraid." A sudden realization came to her, "So this is love," she said quietly. "The daily prospect of joy or disaster
Zoe Archer
#26. We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
Kim Il-sung
#27. Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
John Dryden
#28. We all experience doubts and fears as we approach new challenges. The fear diminishes with the confidence that comes from experience and faith. Sometimes you just have to go for it and see what happens. Jumping into the battle does not guarantee victory, but being afraid to try guarantees defeat
Brian Goodell
#29. Before one is afraid, one sees clearly; while one is afraid, one sees double; and after being afraid, one sees dimly.
Alexandre Dumas
#30. I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything - height, flights - I had no idea why.
Shari Arison
#31. Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.
Laura Wiess
#32. The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.
Raymond E. Feist
#33. I used to be very afraid of graveyards and death and such things, but not anymore. There is just no sense of being afraid when you live so near the graves; it would be like the tongue fearing the teeth.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#34. If you keep being afraid then you might never try.
Jessica Madden
#35. Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.
Rudy Giuliani
#36. That is what's meant by being afraid of the future, by showing how brilliant you come out of it.
Bisco Hatori
#37. When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I'm actually excited by things. And if things don't work out, you know, by the time you've hit your thirties, you've had your fair share of disappointments.
Anne Hathaway
#38. I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.
Christopher Rice
#39. A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.
Ally Carter
#40. Don't be afraid of being unique. It's like being afraid of your best self.
Donald Trump
#41. Being afraid of Islam is no doubt moronic, absurd, and plenty of other things as well, but it's not a crime.
Charb
#42. ...what was important, what mattered, was not the fact of being afraid, but what you did, the choices you made, when you were afraid. And maybe that was something to do with being alive--or staying dead.
Graham Gardner
#43. People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid.
Darren Hardy
#44. I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#45. And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what's inside is good or bad. Because it's both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.
M.R. Carey
#46. So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment.
Jane Smiley
#47. Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers - which is even sillier, because that's like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. That's only cowardice.
Peter Kreeft
#49. As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.
Richard Rogers
#50. True bondage is being afraid and ashamed of your shadow.
K.A. Hosein
#51. America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse.
Aasif Mandvi
#52. There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
Jon Krakauer
#53. My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.
Poppy King
#54. It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.
Justin Cronin
#55. Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.
Terry Goodkind
#56. Being brave isn't not being afraid. Being brave is being afraid and going ahead and doing what you have to do.
S'TarKan
#57. Being afraid is when you let fear control your life, let it stop you from doing what you want. When you're afraid, but you look your fear in the eye and live, that's courageous.
Vi Keeland
#58. What I'm trying to say, Garion,' Durnik continued seriously, 'is that you can't go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who'll misunderstand, and you'll have to do something to show him that it's not him that you're afraid of.
David Eddings
#59. Stop Being Afraid Of What Can Go Wrong In Your Life & Start Putting Your Positive Energy Towards All That Can Go Right!
Timothy Pina
#60. The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.
Steven Furtick
#61. That's all beliefs are; stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid. Beliefs have very little to do with the truth.
Adrian Walker
#62. I hate when somebody says, "This may not work." You'll never get anywhere with that. I've pushed a lot of people out of my way - I don't mean physically - over them being afraid something isn't going to work.
Gordon Willis
#63. Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.
Elizabeth Wein
#64. As an actor, you can't play big, huge things. But, what you can play is love for your father and caring for your daughter and being afraid, and having to dig deep and find out what you're made of. All of those things have been incredibly fun to play.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#65. The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#66. There was no shame in being afraid, only in showing your fear.
George R R Martin
#67. Do you know what courage is? It's being afraid and doing it anyway.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#68. Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
#69. The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
Dale Carnegie
#70. But I guess what I mean is, being afraid can't be a reason for us not to do something now ... '
'Our voice will only get louder the more of us we bring together.
Alexandra Bracken
#71. Stop being afraid of fear, let it be scared of you
Munia Khan
#72. I told you so you'd see how this whole world was made for you, how it warms when you smile and aches when you hurt. I told you so you could stop being afraid.
Emily Henry
#73. Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.
Karrine Steffans
#74. That when you have something important to do, you should simply do it. Because fear is a useless emotion that doesn't change anything." She rested her cheek against his chest. "And life is too short and too precious to spend any of it being afraid.
Shelly Thacker
#75. The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
Bernie Mac
#76. Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.
Thomas Browne
#77. I believe that half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
Steve Chandler
#78. I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.
Elle Fanning
#79. Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway.
Jack Campbell
#80. Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.
Yoana Dianika
#81. I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.
John Green
#82. There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.
Ram Dass
#83. Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.
R. K. Milholland
#84. Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#85. Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.
Demi Lovato
#86. Being a girl in this world means being afraid. That fear'll keep you safe. It'll keep you alive.
Meredith Russo
#87. Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [ ... ] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.
Homer Hickam
#88. As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.
Mark McNairy
#89. Emma sat up very straight in the saddle. Her eyes were huge, but she said bravely, "I could do it!"
"I know you can."
"I wasn't afraid."
"There's nothing wrong with being afraid," I told her. "It's how you handle it.
Josh Lanyon
#90. They were not really afraid. They were just afraid of being afraid.
Malcolm Gladwell
#91. Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.
John Carpenter
#92. If you stop being afraid of the word no and take more chances, you will get more yes.
Jeanette Coron
#93. It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
Jerome Cady
#94. 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
#95. Funny how growing up can change your opinion of being afraid of the dark and afraid of the bills.
Amelia Hutchins
#96. I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. We waste too much time being afraid, when what we should really fear is wasting time.
Stephanie Shirley
#98. 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
#99. Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#100. I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.
Jeff Blatnick
