Afraid Quotes

5719 Afraid quotes by 3276 unique authors

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. — H. L. Mencken
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… — Hale White
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. — Henry Van Dyke
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. — Lady Bird Johnson
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. — Plato
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid… — John F. Kennedy
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. — Robert Anthony
We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of. — Gerhard Schroder
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. — John Gray
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to… — Katherine Mansfield
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to… — James Madison
The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will. — Dixie Lee Ray
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid. — Thomas Hood
The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end. — Viktor Yushchenko
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining.… — Patricia Sun
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor… — James Harrington
Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. — David Thewlis
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… — Kevin J. Anderson
Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended… — Mary C. Jones
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. — Mary Harris Jones
Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so… — Emmy Rossum
We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough. — Keith Miller
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. — William John Wills
As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it. — Richard Morris

Who Wrote These Afraid Quotes

3,276 authors contributed a total of 5,719 Afraid Quotes, led by these top contributors: