I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
Colin Powell

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Clint Eastwood

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Lucille Ball

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
Douglas MacArthur

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
George W. Bush

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Henny Youngman