Afraid Quotes

I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

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.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

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.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.