Top 44 Being Afraid Quotes

It’s fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

Creating content and never being afraid to try something new have been my two hallmarks.

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

But as soon as I joined ‘Six Feet Under’, I felt like I was finally doing something again that the fans really loved, and I could stop being afraid of ‘Clueless’ fans!

I like courage, I like fearlessness, I like not being afraid of making mistakes.

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

I grew up with the idea that someone might hate you if they knew what religion you were; being afraid to open my mouth because my accent might make people think something about me. Or even if they didn’t, would they understand me?

I just realized one day that I was so unhappy. And not only that, but I didn’t even like the person that I was. I didn’t even know who I was. And so ‘Shatter Me’ is about first discovering what was under the shell and then learning to love that person that was under it. And then not being afraid to break free.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

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 lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

I’ve never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I’m 35, which I’m not, and have them say, ‘Oh that’s nice,’ when I could tell them I’m 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, ‘Whoa!’. I’m not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

I would be much less stressed out without social media. I am constantly afraid of getting hacked. It’s like being afraid of stepping on glass.

Being told to get out, not being afraid to fail and try new things – that really makes a difference.

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it’s about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I’ve always been comfortable with being gay.

‘Friends’ played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that’s wrong.

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 where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

If you’re doing the same work, you should get the same amount of money, and you should get the same respect. It’s about valuation. It’s about not being afraid to ask for those things.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.

‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.’

Over time, I have come to believe that ‘brave’ does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean ‘being afraid and doing it anyway.’ Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying.

I am not made for lonely expeditions. In the sixties, I climbed during the day so I wouldn’t have to be alone. I finally learned to stay up for weeks in the high altitude all by my own without being afraid.

If you go around being afraid, you’re never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you’ve got to have fun.

It’s not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person has special things to offer, and it’s about embracing it and not being afraid of the fact that maybe you’re different or quirky, but it’s okay to be different, and it can be a wonderful thing.

Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive.

I’ll never forget the moment in class when I went from being afraid to fail, to expecting to fail. This informs everything I do.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

That’s part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

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, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

I’m just grasping everything, getting as much knowledge as I can, and continuing to learn and not being afraid to take challenges and actually take action.

I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything – height, flights – I had no idea why.

When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I’m actually excited by things. And if things don’t work out, you know, by the time you’ve hit your thirties, you’ve had your fair share of disappointments.

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

I don’t remember being afraid of anything in making films.