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“In my true sense as a visual artist; I think it is about appreciating oneself and being in tune with ones thoughts and abilities, and not being afraid of expressing those thoughts in the best way possible. This is how I approach a piece of wood; imagining how I can turn it into one perfect, beautiful sculpture. An expression of a persons individuality. And in a way, I am giving the viewer me.”
Rose Kirumira (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They also told me not to be afraid of supporters, that I should just play my normal game”
Eric Mathoho (born 1990) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mathoho glad he joined Chiefs, September 2013,IOL by Tshepang Mailwane
“Know God and do not be afraid of anybody.”
Fateema Mohammed first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Women can change Nigeria’s politics –Fateema Mohammed, politician The Sun (Nigeria), 6 February 2018.
“They told me not to be afraid, They reminded me that I was not there by mistake, and to just play my game.”
Khulumani Ndamane (born 2004) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one thing I tell people is, do not be afraid to start!”
Ken Nwadiogbu (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always saw people with dwarfism as normal, but I found that there were people who were afraid of them and didn’t see them the same way.”
Adetona Omokanye (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The president is promising everything: to build new churches, give to specific causes. I feel it’s not sincere and I’m afraid Christians will be used for political purposes, as it already happened before.”
Ketakandriana Rafitoson wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I arrived here as an eighth man and was told I would be signed as a loosehead prop. I was very excited to play prop but the whole way back home my mom cried because she was afraid for her son’s neck.”
Dayan van der Westhuizen (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Winners? I'm around a lot of winners and winners never quit. And I think that's the kind of the personality that I have. And I think some people are so afraid of failure that they don't try things. That's the worst mistake you can make. It's o.k. to fail. You just have to get up, dust yourself off and try again. You keep trying until you have success.”
Cynthia Bailey (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At first I was really afraid because I didn’t want that.”
Nafissatou Thiam (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It does. 'Cause in a way it's like, I'm still putting it off on like this "character," but it's me, ultimately. It's me, but sometimes I'm afraid to say the things directly from my mouth, but if I give it to something else or somebody else, then it's like, alright, cool, but I'm being direct like the character. It is me. It is me.”
Tierra Whack (born 1995) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tierra Whack opens up: 'Don't we all fake it?';By Rodney Carmichael on March 23, 2024
“The first work of importance of this character [I] constructed in Spain... in 1868—the manufactory of Batllo in La Corts de Serria. ...Afterwards I built others. In some cases the risk and danger caused by the irregularity of the materials was so plain that the workmen were afraid.., compelling me to remain in the works to inspire confidence and success.”
Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
Voltaire (misattributed) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Creator — A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh." — H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques‎ (1920), p. 203. and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), Ch. 30
“Socrates: Shall we set down astronomy among the objects of study? Glaucon: I think so, to know something about the seasons, the months and the years is of use for military purposes, as well as for agriculture and for navigation. Socrates: It amuses me to see how afraid you are, lest the common herd of people should accuse you of recommending useless studies.”
Socrates (attributed) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Socrates as quoted by Plato. In Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (eds.), The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature (1899), Vol. 4, 111.
“With thee how should we be afraid of loss O thou, who turnest every loss to gain.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.”
Bette Davis (attributed) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker, Macmillan, 1992, , p. 383.
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great”
John D. Rockefeller (disputed) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Earliest citation found in Google Books is from 1993, where it is attributed to country-music singer Kenny Rogers. Not found attributed to Rockefeller until 2006.
“Don't be afraid to be different.”
Michael Jackson (attributed) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Kobe Bryant - Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009 - TIME (October 27, 2022)
“Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.”
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.”
Vine Deloria Jr. (misattributed) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commonly attributed to Deloria on the internet, or sometimes to a few others, but without legitimate sourcing, the earliest variant of this yet located is a single quotation in Awakened India Vo. 99 (1994) p. 327, ascri…
“Even when Richard didn't understand, he always seemed to understand better than the rest of us. And whatever he understood, he could make others understand as well. Richard made people feel like children do when a grown-up first treats them as adults. He was never afraid to tell the truth, and however foolish your question was, he never made you feel like a fool.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: W. Daniel Hillis, "Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine", Physics Today, volume 42, number 2, February 1989, p. 78-83, at p. 83
“David Cameron: "I'm sure that when Morrissey finds that he's getting an endorsement from the leader of the Conservative Party, he will think "heaven know's I'm miserable now". I'm a big fan, I'm afraid. Sorry about that.”
Morrissey (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a big difference between hating losing and being afraid to lose.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unvarnished truth, that truth which runs contrary to the vital needs of human nature, is worse than any lie. This is what Tolstoy thought when he wrote War and Peace, when he was still entirely possessed by Aristotle's ideas, when he was afraid of madness and the asylum and hoped that he would never have to live in an individual world of his own. p. 94”
Lev Shestov (1866–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) said by 1845 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, he wasn't a relativist. There's a long and complicated story of the rise of a desire for scientific relativism. Part of it may well be simply sort of rage against reason, the fear of the sciences and a kind of total dislike of the arrogance of a great many scientists who say we're finding out the truth about everything—and here [with Kuhn] there was a way to undermine that arrogance.”
Ian Hacking (1936–2023) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ian Hacking, in Gary Stix, "A Q&A with Ian Hacking on Thomas Kuhn's Legacy as "The Paradigm Shift" Turns 50" (April 27, 2012)
“A Jew waits for Messiah to come and redeem the world from fear and pain, from the cataclysmic conflicts between rich and poor. All shall enjoy the earth. This means, in popular imagination, that bread and clothes shall grow, ready-made, on trees. Do you have more winged ideals?”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Advice to the Estranged. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 348.
“I fear you. As victors, you may become the bureaucracy: doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each his task as in a prison. And you will exterminate the creator of new worlds,—the free human will, and stop up the purest well of human happiness—the power of the one to face thousands, to stand up to peoples and generations.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 279.
“Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.”
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) first seen 1329 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted as a remark of Bismark without quotation marks, in Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s (1984) by , p. 136, a paraphrase of what Bismarck told the Reichstag on Feb. 9, 1876. Referring to March 1875, when t…
“When fear admits no hope of safety, then Necessity makes dastards valiant men.”
Robert Herrick (poet) first seen 1118 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1118. "No Danger to Men Desperate
“Too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning— Oh friend, I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes heaviest mourning.”
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was a little girl, my parents would say Puerto Rico can't be free because we would be poor like Cuba and poor like Haiti. Out of the fear of becoming poor we didn't dare to become free. Then a hurricane comes, devastates everything, and maybe we are as poor as Cuba and Haiti, but we are not free.”
Giannina Braschi (born 1953) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the aftermath of Hurricane Maria (El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico, July 23, 2018)
“Tragedy is all about losing. And humor is all about gaining perspective. Humour returns our gladness. And with gladness comes generosity. Humor returns us to the light and makes us light—it kills grudges, buries bodies–buries revenge—buries blame and guilt—fear and dread. Laughter, like hiccups and sneezes and farts and burps, relieves us of severity.”
Giannina Braschi (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the power of humor. (Monkey Bicycle, August 23, 2013)
“We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear”
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But if the envious nymphs shall fear Their beauties will be scorn'd, And hire the ruder winds to tear That face which you adorn'd;Then rage and foam amain, that we Their malice may despise; And from your froth we soon shall see A second Venus rise.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mighty Jove did love us. Did? He does. There is a spell of unresisted power In wonder-working weak simplicity, Because it is not fear'd.”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mortal! fear no more,— The reign is past of ancient violence; And Jove hath sworn that time shall not deface, Nor death destroy, nor mutability Perplex the truth of love.”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.”
Wendy Kaminer (born 1949) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 6/24/95 Wendy Kaminer on Crime" (24 June 1995)
“Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Press on! there's no such word as fail! Press nobly on! the goal is near,— Ascend the mountain! breast the gale! Look upward, onward,—never fear! Why shouldst thou faint? Heaven smiles above, Though storm and vapor intervene; That sun shines on, whose name is Love, Serenely o'er Life's shadow'd scene.”
Park Benjamin Sr. (1809–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear,— Nothing to lose or to gain.”
Madison Cawein (1865–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the End of the Road", line 1, in The Cup of Comus (New York: The Cameo Press, 1915), p. 20.
“Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Saying "yes" for fear of saying "no" is a recipe for resentment.”
Guy Finley (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you know what a good life is? A good life is a life in which you never have to think about yourself again. You know why? Because you can't think about yourself without producing fear.”
Guy Finley (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, "You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me." It makes me weepy … but I don’t think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.”
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wrote a little song for you With a melody I'd borrowed put to words that didn't rhyme To repeat what you already knew; As the stones thrown at your window tapped in syncopation, You kept a distance out of fear you'd break, But what good's a single windchime, hanging quiet all alone?”
Aaron Weiss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear is a great enemy of man. It is the enemy of his progress. It disturbs his peace and harmony. It sucks or saps his vitality and energy. It drains the nervous system of its reserve of energy. It produces weakness.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the fear is released or dispelled, he will have peace of mind.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source