Afraid Quotes
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People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am afraid it is only too true, as someone has remarked, that "this is the age of obedient parents!" What then will be the future of their children? How can they yield to God who have never been taught to yield to human authority? And how well fitted will they be to rule their own households who have never learned to rule themselves?
Elizabeth Prentiss
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Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.
Beau Biden
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I typed becasue I had to. I typed because I was afraid I might disappear.
Brady Udall
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We're the first generation that doesn't need to be afraid of the media. We will become the media
Christy Haubegger
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I'm not afraid of anything, and I've got the whole world in front of me
Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
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Save myself from death is that it?! Is that why I've come here?! I'm not afraid to die! At times I've welcomed death!
American McGee
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Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.
Rei Kawakubo
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Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.
Elspeth Huxley
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
Rumi
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You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
Erol Alkan
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But he felt too confident in Catherine’s beautiful nature to be afraid of Ned. Catherine, who loved beauty, who was so much moved by it—witness her rapt face at The Immortal Hour—would never listen to blandishments from anyone with Ned’s nose. Besides, Ned was elderly. In spite of the fur rug up to his chin, Christopher had seen that all right. He was an elderly, puffy man. Elderliness and love! He grinned to himself. If only the elderly could see themselves….
Elizabeth von Arnim
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... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.
Betty Rollin
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Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?
Drew Carey
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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
Marianne Williamson
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When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.
Bob Goff
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He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.
Nizami Ganjavi
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You're always afraid of losing what you have. Regardless of success or anything, you're always afraid.
Donald Faison
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War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
Robert Frost
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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
Seneca the Younger
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The way our defense is set up, it puts me in situations where I'm one-on-one in making tackles on running backs. When I go into it, I think I am going to win. It really doesn't matter the size, height, weight, whatever. I'm not afraid of putting my body in there.
Bob Sanders
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Everything is so beautiful I am afraid to wake up again to the hard world.
Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
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When you're of a different race people distrust you because they are afraid. If you don't give them reason to dislike you, it becomes their problem, not yours.
Elizabeth Haydon
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You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
Mike Tyson