Afraid Quotes

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

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.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

No, I was never afraid.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.