I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I’m probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they’re not very good.
I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people’s reactions to my aging.
I think about death every day – what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
There’s the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who’s afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that’s my problem with my fellow liberals.
I’m afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I’m afraid of it, then I want to do it.
You can’t be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you’re gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
Educators shouldn’t be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don’t know most of them! They’re a new audience. And they’re inspired by cliches.
Don’t be afraid to look silly.
I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says ‘I was afraid’ of a big black guy, that’s enough to say, ‘Okay, not guilty,’ or, ‘No indictment.’ It’s persisted over generations, and it needs to stop.
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
I never read ‘The Cinderella Complex’ – I’m too afraid that my name might be in it.
I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.
The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don’t know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.
Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don’t be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.
Stateless people are hidden. During the 2011 refugee crises, it was obvious that people were fleeing Somalia and Libya – there was a lot of international attention. Statelessness goes undetected because stateless people are in legal limbo and are afraid to show up.
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.
Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn’t right for me. They’re afraid to step outside the box – even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.
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.
As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don’t be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
Don’t be afraid to step through some of that uncertainty that you might feel when you’re passionate about doing something.
It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don’t, but there’s no solving it.
I just want to say, don’t be afraid, believe in yourself, whatever comes your way you have to experience it to really know what that is. So if you have too much fear inside you may let go of certain opportunities or chances, so trust in yourself and stick with it.
I’m afraid of open bodies of water. I was in a glass-bottomed boat that broke a long time ago, so I’ve always been kind of freaked out.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
We can’t be afraid to make mistakes.
It’s better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.
Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He’s an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
I’m not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can’t throw a wet ball.
I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.
You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.
Compton is a much safer Compton than it was in the ’80s. People play in parks. People aren’t afraid to be out at night.
I had a good loud voice and I wasn’t afraid to be goofy or zany.
A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
But I’m someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.
If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you’re never really afraid for her because you know she’s not going to die.
I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.
I’m not afraid of anything.
As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
People are afraid of changing; that they’re losing something. They don’t understand that they are also gaining something.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.
Well, I’m not afraid to say something if I think it’s funny, even if it’s harsh or racist.
I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Don’t be afraid to see what you see.
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
Anyone who said he wasn’t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn’t shake but inside I was shaking.
I’m just afraid I’m gonna miss it all… being married… being a mother.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions.
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that.
I taught myself confidence. When I’d walk into a room and feel scared to death, I’d tell myself, ‘I’m not afraid of anybody.’ And people believed me. You’ve got to teach yourself to take over the world.
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.
