Afraid Quotes

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

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

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

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

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.