Afraid Quotes

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

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

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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.

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

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.