Afraid Quotes
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I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Socrates
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I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.
Mike Tyson
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
Taylor Caldwell
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw
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My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there's no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it's confirmed, then you can be afraid.
Nile Rodgers Chic
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As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.
Safra A. Catz
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Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.
Bob Galvin
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Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
Fiona Shaw
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Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.
Eve Ensler
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Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.
Tamron Hall
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Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
Muhammad Ali
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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 day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
Billy Joel
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It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
Alex Trebek
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We are constantly searching from being afraid of finding.
Phase
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They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs.
Norm MacDonald
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My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Rumi
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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 even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Young children are not prejudiced against languages, unlike many adults, ... They are not afraid of having a go, of interacting with others linguistically. Later on, their hormones tend to get in the way.
Peter Hall
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I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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I hope (the ban) doesn't backfire because there's so much stress and so much isolation. They offend because they don't really have good coping mechanisms and I'm afraid more stress is going to (cause the ban to backfire). They're already under Megan's Law -- community supervision for life -- and that's stressful for them. But add to that ... Where are you going to live? Where are you going to go?
John Whiting