Afraid Quotes

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby

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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
Lorraine Hansberry

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya

Work, Failure, Working

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw

Best, Children, Honesty

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Courage, True, Job

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw

Human, Beings, Thoroughly

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin Luther

Great, Heart, Self

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe

Him, Brave, Coward

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Ideas, Quite, Top

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford

Great, Greatest, Find

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Time, Best, Care

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
Ayn Rand

Looking, Road, Walk

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud

Success, America, Seen

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki

Truth, Play, Tell

My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.
Rodney Dangerfield

Wife, Dark, Light

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Free, Sense

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill

Person, Find, Ashamed

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato

Fear, Suffering, Injustice

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 trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Trust, Nation, Almost

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway

Hope, Book, Writing

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball

Work, Hard, Else

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley

Dark, Losing, Obscurity

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

Sleep, Wife, Married

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor

Behind, Doors, Opened

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
Stephen Hawking

Death, Die, Hurry

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Jim Carrey

Life, Either, Stay

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Marcus Garvey

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
W. C. Fields

Become, Water, Drink

I'm not afraid to die.
John Wooden

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