Afraid Quotes
5719 Afraid quotes by 3276 unique authors
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If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
— Margaret Heffernan
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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and…
— Joseph Campbell
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I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
— Confucius
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable…
— Tony Kushner
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid
— E E Cummings
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Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a…
— Charlotte Bronte
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People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
— Alan Moore
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I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.
— Ani DiFranco
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Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you…
— Rajneesh
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Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite…
— Truman Capote
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The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I…
— Martin Amis
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Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
— Dale Carnegie
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You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
— Jon Bon Jovi
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Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point…
— Douglas Adams
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
— John Irving
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He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other…
— Daniel Defoe
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
— Erica Jong
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[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians…
— Bob Dylan
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I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
— Terry Goodkind
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