Being Afraid Quotes
152 quotes by 138 authors
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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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
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I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to…
— Charlotte Gainsbourg
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I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
— Ruby Dee
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I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid,…
— Craig Ferguson
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The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture…
— Kathy Ireland
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
— Eartha Kitt
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
— Edwin Land
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
— Dan Rather
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel.…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend…
— Paulo Coelho
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Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,…
— Franz Kafka
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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on…
— Truman Capote
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If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're…
— Mitch Albom
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Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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