It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.
I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.
Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.
I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.
If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.
I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.
She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.
I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.
I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.
It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We don't know their stories, their histories, their real live human feelings. We don't know their favorite movies and best memories and what makes them afraid. It is unfair to take one fact, one thing they've said or we heard they said, or one thing they wrote, or someone else's experience, or a group they identify with and make a character sketch. If people did that to us, the picture would be so woefully incomplete, we wouldn't even recognize our own description.
People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.
Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is never afraid of death; he welcomes death. Whenever death comes he hugs death, he embraces death, he welcomes death, he receives death as a guest. To the man who has not known what life is, death is an enemy; and to the man who knows what life is, death is the ultimate crescendo of life.
Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just. . . try.
Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.
If your fear is talking to people, then go out and talk to people. You will find it just keeps getting easier and there's really nothing to be afraid of. However, I can tell you that if I stop for a month, it starts to seem scary again. So, the easiest way to fend off fear is to attack it, embrace it.
I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.