Afraid Quotes

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob Bronowski

Nature, Future, Forward

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.
Ellie Goulding

Emotional, Human, Body

Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.
Ellie Goulding

Heart, Political, Same

I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Hard, Working

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.
Shakira

Marriage, Death

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.
Paula Deen

Around, Seasoning

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams

Success, Failure, Petty

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Jean Giraudoux

Life, Death, Game

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
Sammy Hagar

Love, Sometimes, She

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Trent Reznor

Failure, True, Try

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
Bill Parcells

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.
Craig Ferguson

Past, Mean, Brave

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Katherine Anne Porter

End, Nothing, Leaving

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.
Gene Simmons

Love, Work, Money

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

Life, Deal, Stories

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
Phil McGraw

Food, Lost, Giving

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen

Business, Society, Science

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George

Two, Small, Big

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
Shahrukh Khan

Change, Happiness, Sad

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.
Ricky Williams

Dark, Place, Taboo

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Government, Speak, Against

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
Anna Deavere Smith

Talk, Seems, Race

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
Carol Burnett

Good, Voice, Loud

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
Henning Mankell

Hope, Brain, Die

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
Stonewall Jackson

Enemy, Alcohol, Bullets

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
David Packard

Mistakes, Enough, Big

If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.
Jeffrey Kluger

Dark, Older, Needs

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.
Shimon Peres

Why, Israel, Nuclear

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
Caroline Kennedy

Poetry, Boring, Understand

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
Vera Farmiga

Good, Ambition, Used

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