Afraid Quotes

5719 Afraid quotes by 3276 unique authors

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you. — Tama J. Kieves
There are some closed doors we’re so frightened of opening that we don’t see them any more. We’ve pushed furniture in front of them; we’ve… — Timothee de Fombelle
Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective. — Erin O'Connor
Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of… — Frances Wright
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung. — Henry David Thoreau
He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master, and he who breaks the law is a runaway. And he… — Marcus Aurelius
A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our… — Winston Churchill
Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way. — Elie Wiesel
The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than… — George Bernard Shaw
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God… — C.S. Lewis
But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it.… — Harper Lee
We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to… — Rosa Parks
If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success. — Mark McCormack
I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps—and try to… — Deborah Feldman
I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings. — Julie Klausner
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened. — John Owen
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced… — Anatole France
I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. — Sylvia Plath
When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to… — Dolph Lundgren
When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do… — Jenny Hval
I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation. — John Mellencamp
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to… — Jodie Foster
I have a mouth and I'm not afraid to use it. — Megan Fox

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