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“We all have fears. And it takes a lot to be brave, be confident, and talk about it. And you never know what it may lead to.”
Rachel Yankey (born 1979) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rachel Yankey: Everybody thought that I was a boy...they didn't question whether I could play football by Yara El-Shaboury. June 23, 2023. Retrieved 2023/11/28.
“There are a lot of fears, anxiety, and uncertainty in that [for me], but you push past that and the best that can happen is you’re living your life to the max.”
Yvonne Orji (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be a hero, you constantly have to face your fears head on. Don't give up, someone has to save the day, why not you?”
Amina Temitope Ajayi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My shoes are soaked, my bones too, | my fears echo like distant thunder. (from Damned Rainy Day, n. 4)”
“Recently, I've been listening to a lot of Western musics from the 80s. Tears For Fears is my eternal theme song!!”
Kazuki Takahashi (1961–2022) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shonen Jump magazine – April 29, 2002, issue 20.
“An artist's creation is an extension of themselves, thus their artworks mirror their inner workings, desires and fears. When someone commits money to buy art, it is an indication, that they were moved by an aspect of the work.”
Modupeola Fadugba (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With education, we will conquer fears and transform Africa.”
Ajoritsedere Awosika wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Contrary to fears by the public that 100,000 were insurgents, only about 5,000 are actual fighters. Most of the others are farmers, women and children held hostage by the insurgents.”
Zuwaira Gambo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those are being addressed or they’ve already been addressed in the MOU. They will just be reinforced in the treaty,” she said, adding that it is not to confirm that the fears raised by the court were real but rather an effort to give more assurances to those still in doubt.”
Yolande Makolo first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: RWANDA REMAINS A SAFE PLACE FOR REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS- GOV’T SPOKESPERSON KT Press (November 21, 2023)
“Sarita placed little faith in such rumors. The fears of small people everywhere could speak louder than any voice, and with less reason. Legends were just that: legendary.”
Jay Lake (1964–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only the People’s full participation can bring true victory. And the People are real individual human beings, like me—with brains, desires, fears, angers, dreams, etc.”
Ashanti Alston (born 1954) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anarcho-Pantherista, 1995 Aug/Sep issue of L&R
“Starting from the faith in the Risen Jesus Christ, victorious over the Kingdom of evil, we can show the world paths of hope, peace, freedom; paths that lead to erasing ancestral fears, such as witchcraft that sowed much suffering among our peoples.”
Manuel António Mendes dos Santos (born 1960) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: H. Exc. Mons. Manuel António MENDES DOS SANTOS, C.M.F., Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe (SÃO TOMÉ) (October 13, 2009) Press Office of the Holy See
“This tendency to pathologise opinions and life patterns which are not in accordance with its own political ends is characteristic of Cultural Marxism. Differing views are often seen as irrational fears of the unknown — ‘phobias’.”
Daniel Friberg (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He wanted to possess not the body but the soul of that woman; and to possess her entire soul, with all her tenderness, all her joys, all her fears, all her anguish, all her dreams, in other words, the entire lief of her soul; and to be able to say: I am the life of her life.”
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man who fears to go his way alone, But follows where the greater number tread, Should hasten to his rest beneath a stone; The great majority of men are dead.”
Edmund Vance Cooke (1866–1932) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Requiescat in Pace" in A Patch of Pansies (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894)
“Listen not to human fears, but look at it from God's perspective.”
Mykola Semenyshyn (born 1982) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I would learn His Beatitude, Lubomyr Husar, how to listen," - nominee bishop Mykola Semenyshyn (28 October 2022) Religious Information Service of Ukraine
“Who shuns offence and holds with neither side, Who dreads the deep and never dares to swim, Who fears to trip and never tries to run, May yet in walking stumble.”
John Nichol (biographer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A bold claim, perhaps. But not a boastful one. Courage abides in a kind of purposeful detachment, admitting our fears and false steps even as we advance—to paraphrase Sojourner Truth, not allowing our light to be determined by the darkness around us. And in courage, we find freedom—where we dare to imagine and make a different future together.”
Claudine Gay (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you sense your life’s a mess right now, this is simply because your fears are just a little stronger than your faith.”
Robin Sharma (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Limitation is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it’s reality. It breaks my heart to see so many potentially powerful human beings stuck in a story about why they can’t be extraordinary, professionally and personally. You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves”
Robin Sharma (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“science has revealed truth, which has ultimately liberated humanity from its absurd fears”
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1928–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the fears of her childhood were coming back. There was a vice-like band around her head and she thought she would faint. In her head one thought went round and round, beating its wings like a trapped bird. “My child - not you, not you!”
Margaret Ogola (1958–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are all invited to a concrete commitment against the expansion of initiatives that refer to the world of the occult. Carry out an appropriate sensitization in parishes through the parish priests, avoiding counterproductive fears and psychosis and useless alarmism.”
Domenico Crusco (1934–2013) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anti-Satanism Panel Set Up (29 October 2004) Zenit
“In your deep floods Drown all my faults and fears; Not let His eye See sin, but through my tears.”
Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) first seen 1633 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poetical Miscellanies (1633), "An Hymn
“Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.”
Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) said by 1650 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gold is now at a 20-year high against the dollar, and the dollar at a one-year low against the euro. The Financial Times of May 16th, under the headline: “Fears for Dollar as Central Banks Sell US assets” reported that ‘central banks sold a net $14.4 billion during the month, the largest sale since August 1998.”
Margaret Legum (1933–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.”
Carson McCullers (1917–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who trusts himself to women, or to waves, Should never hazard what he fears to lose.”
John Oldmixon (1673–1742) first seen 1703 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1703), act 3 (loq. Virotto)
“I love the sound of the wind as it whispers 'sweet nothings' in my ears, The warmth of the sun that heals my soul and melts my fears, The rhythm of soft breeze, That makes my hair dance on its favourite track. And Oh, I love the touch of the waves That kiss my feet with a promise to be back!”
Kriti Sanon (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are paths to knowledge which must be forever closed to us, and the way of vivisection is one of those paths. It is made possible only because of our cowardice and fears.”
William Brown (veterinarian) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anti-Vivisection Week", Huddersfield Daily Examiner (6 October 1936), p. 1
“mid fears & tremblings but did surprise myself.”
Inez Knight Allen (1876–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Real Live Mormon Women” Retrieved 6 April 2025
“I’m having such a great time with this pregnancy, simply because I am taking it one step at a time and not allowing my fears to overshadow my future.”
Rosemary Zimu (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With the political and social landscape, being what it is today. I decided to take a leaf out of Osamu Tezuka's book and turn my fears, hopes and dreams of THIS era into a philosophical adventure Manga”
Asia Alfasi (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He sows no vile dissensions; good-will to all he bears; He knows no vain pretensions, no paltry fears or cares; To Erin's and to Britain's sons his worth his name endears; They love the man, who led the van of Irish Volunteers.”
Edward Lysaght (1763–1811) said by 1811 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Man, Who Led the Irish Volunteers", st. 2, in Barry (1845), pp. 132–3
“Long story short, my biggest songs to date are all singing songs. And the people who were saying that I was bad were just projecting their inner fears of trying something that they wanted to try, but not being able to. And now I’m better at singing and they’re probably not better at whatever they wanted to do. – Tyler, the Creator”
Tyler, the Creator (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate — A thousand years of Middle Life.”
Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Boon", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 11th ed. (New York, 1938 [1937]) p. 812
“Americans of Chinese ancestry share in disproportionate measure the apprehension of other non-Whites with regard to the summary treatment of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Tightening of residential restrictions against them, for instance, in the neighborhood surrounding San Francisco’s ‘Chinatown’ gives basis for their fears.”
Erna P. Harris (1908–1995) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In February 1946 she complained in her Los Angeles Tribune column that all the events for Brotherhood Week that year were being hosted by whites
“I don't know if the present time has brought us great benefits, but it has certainly invented a lot of fears.”
Vittorino Andreoli (born 1940) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Le paure non vanno in vacanza, Corriere della Sera, 19 July 2009, p. 45
“The teenager does not know who they have been and fears that they will not be able to become what they dream of being: self-awareness is the result of a long, complex confrontation between precarious stages of one's identity, and the group allows one to reflect oneself in others, to learn to recognize oneself and others.”
Paolo Crepet (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have known for years that Salvini had decided to fan the flames of people's fears about the wave of migration. Now we have discovered that Di Maio and the Five Star Movement are doing the same.”
Andrea Orlando (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tommaso Labate, «Non pensavo che Angelino s'iscrivesse al partito populista», Corriere della Sera, 30 aprile 2017, p. 7.
“I want to overcome my limits and fears. I feel the urge to do it, and I want to lay myself bare as a person—no makeup, no camera-facing poses. I want people to know sides of me that only a few know. My human side. For better or worse.”
Bianca Atzei (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to be very careful. We have to understand the context. We have to also take into consideration the concerns and the fears of men.”
Fatuma Ndangiza (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The character created most closely from my personal experiences is Jean Carson, the teacher in Mirrors. Her struggles were mine, her hopes and fears were mine. She struggled to protect her job, while trying to help a bullied student. I kept my job, but lost a student to suicide.”
Marianne K. Martin (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.”
Mara Brock Akil (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn’t have any fears because my mama said a prayer!”
Maggie Benedict (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing is a very cathartic experience and I use it to address my fears”
Angela Makholwa (born 1976) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: GLAM Book Chat: Angela Makholwa 17 June, 2014
“Those experiences helped me conquer many fears and self-doubts”
Bryoni Govender (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The worries and fears about personal lacks are immobilizing and make me dream the dream too long”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By extending a helping hand to those in need is a testament Ms. Moorosi fears God and could not stand watching people suffer.”
Nthati Moorosi first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PARLIAMENTARIAN CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS WITH VOTERS,LENA(22 December 2024)
“I kinda really enjoy playing myself now, with all the flaws, with all my insecurities, with all my fears, because I feel like this is liberation for me.”
Heart Evangelista (born 1985) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: . "Heart Evangelista Talks Marriage with Chiz Escudero". 12 May 2023.