Top 484 Afraid Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Afraid Quotes from famous people such as Kobe Bryant, Melissa Etheridge, Evelyn Lauder, Dorothy Gilman, Lisa Guerrero, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
Kobe Bryant
Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn’t afraid of anything anymore.
Melissa Etheridge
Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
Evelyn Lauder
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
Dorothy Gilman
I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn’t talk to me because I’m a woman.
Lisa Guerrero
I am afraid that if you don’t find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it’s always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.
Thomas Piketty
I’m not afraid to die.
John Wooden
During the climb, I never get afraid. But you can’t lose your fear – it is really important. If you lose it, you are going to die.
Ueli Steck
When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don’t be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot – it’s good for you!
Paula Radcliffe
Afraid no, I wasn’t afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
Ralph Boston
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
John Mellencamp
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
R. L. Stine
Powerful women intimidate men. If she’s a really well-known woman, she has a career, she’s famous – in that case, men are really afraid.
Donatella Versace
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we’re afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.
Martha Beck
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry
Children, if they haven’t been introduced to foods by the time they’re 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don’t really get out of that until they’re 6 or 7 – it’s a safety mechanism, and you’re not going to win.
Tyler Florence
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
Carter G. Woodson
The one who intimidates me is myself. I’m scared to fail. That is the thing that makes me the most afraid, to fail. Just to think that I can do a mistake and lose the fight scares me, so that is why I work out a lot: to bring more chance to my size and less chance to my opponent.
Francis Ngannou
I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
Lemmy
We must not be afraid to define our enemy. It is Islamic extremist terrorism. I did not say all of Islam. I said Islamic extremist terrorism. Failing to identify them properly maligns decent Muslims around the world. It also sets up a fear of being politically incorrect that can have serious consequences. And it has.
Rudy Giuliani
I’m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
Jim Garrison
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
William Jennings Bryan
Some officials are afraid to blow the whistle with 20,000 people screaming and yelling at them. Some officials love to have the crowd go against them.
Tim Donaghy
It’s not that people want to be like me, but some want to say the things I say and can’t because they’re afraid. I say it for them.
Cardi B
My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.
Clint Eastwood
Everyone is born, and has a death date. The days in between are meant to live, which is why I am not afraid of anyone.
Rajpal Yadav
I’d tell my 20-year-old self, ‘Don’t be afraid to do it all. Whatever you’re interested in, just go for it. Don’t wait around for a better time.’
Angela Bassett
I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn’t afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it’s cool if she’s a tomboy.
Chris Brown
You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
LeBron James
I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.
Thomas Kretschmann
Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confi

Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
Barbra Streisand
If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
Kurt Cobain
I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
Taylor Swift
Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I’ve become. I’ve taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I’ve become those things.
Marilyn Manson
Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I’m just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.
George Michael
I’m so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women’s feelings.
Sam Kinison
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
Frank Ocean
My family always believed in me, even when I didn’t. Having that love and support made me not afraid of failing. I knew my mom would be proud of me just for taking a chance and pursuing my dream.
Nico Santos
51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I’m afraid I could never be that cool in real life!
Emily Mortimer
I’m afraid this man will kill me some day.
Nicole Brown Simpson
I’ve always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I’m most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It’s why we seek the limelight – so we’re not alone, were adored. We’re loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
Jennifer Lopez
There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.
Alanis Morissette
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
We had two terms of Barack Obama. Unfortunately, we have these people that are afraid, and they always try to roll us back, but they can never roll us back as much as we go forward.
Stephen Henderson
Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.
Greta Thunburg
Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily Tomlin
I have the courage of youth, and I’m not afraid of anything. My only enemies are illegality and corruption.
Alessandra Mussolini
I like attractive people who aren’t so terribly aware that they are attractive… people who aren’t afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.
Bob Fosse
We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
Peter Benchley
We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflects us, it’s the one thing we’re all afraid to face. We’re afraid to face ourselves. Building machines that mirror our consciousness is a very frightening proposition because we have seen how evil people can be.
Gray Scott
I’m a church boy. I got whuppin’s. So I’m afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.
Anthony Hamilton
Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.
Rollo May
Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?
Michelle Obama
I’m afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I’m glad I am not any of these.
Tom Glazer
When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed.
Brian Krause
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
Martha Beck
The violence in society, I’m afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
Rob Walton
By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn’t afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
Randy Harrison
I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn’t have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I’m so into the process itself, not so much the end product.
Jacqueline McKenzie
I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afrai

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don’t go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move… We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
Malala Yousafzai
How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?
Ryan White