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Afraid even to look at the sky The birds of cage do seldom fly

A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.

A leader who allows their subordinates to suffer as proof of who is the boss likely quenches their thirst with salt water from a rusted canteen.

A lion is not afraid of walking alone, even if the whole jungle is pursuing it.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid. ("New York Blues")

All of your fears and thoughts were mine, you were so scared but it was beyond divine.

After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid. And now, in this darkness, I fear nothing. If you were to leave me here, I would feel nothing. I would walk as I am walking now. As a man, you can't know what I mean by what I say.You can't know a woman's vulnerability. You can't know the sense of power that belongs to me now.

All of us - all who knew her - felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used - to silence our own nightmares. And she let us, and thereby deserved our contempt. We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength. And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive

An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.

Are your kids afraid of the Dentist?

Are you afraid now?" said Gregor. "At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Everyday when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it." Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer. "And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

Anyone who says women are weak is afraid they're too strong.

As sonner began as sooner finished... the guilt is after you. I feel it, I see it and I smell you have done something..., didn't you?? Something bad... isn't it?? Tell me... don't be afraid I won't do anything bad... (I will just cut your fingers one by one... on your hands... it will be one bloody night... Then I will start with your legs finger by finger with axe... then I will start removing little from you.... the flesh from you!)

Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.

Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don’t be afraid to feel.

Because of fear, most people don’t dream big. Because of fear, even those who dream big do not start working on them. Because of fear, those who start working on their dreams end up quitting too early.

As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside. As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.

As a young girl I was told the truth. I knew about death. I was afraid to lose but not afraid to die.

Being creative is not being afraid of being lost.

Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved

Being around you was the sweetest torture. I wanted to touch you, hold you, kiss you. I wanted all of you.” His shoulders slumped. “But I was afraid of what would happen if I gave in my desire. If I let myself love you.

But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.

But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her...

BRAVE To be brave is to behave bravely when your heart is faint. So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.

But the things that make other people nervous have never scared me. I'm not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies or roller coasters. I didn't know precisely what I was afraid of, but it wasn't this.

Chirp of coward shouted in crowd, dare to speak but not to be known.

Cemeteries can be creepy, creepy, ‘specially at night.

Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... better ... YOU SAID THAT WE ARE FRIENDS... AND i WAIT HOURS FOR REPLY!?

But time changed. That was something only drunks and junkies understood. When you couldn’t sleep, when you were afraid to look around because of what you might see, time elongated and grew sharp teeth.

Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity.

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Courage promotes leaders; fear demotes them. Most people who have difficulties climbing up success ladders are fans of fear.

Cowardice is when you hide away from your real self, and wear another self in pretense. Be yourself; that is bravery. If yourself is not better for you to be, change yourself and live in that changed self!

Do not be afraid of what should be afraid of you

Do not be afraid to preach the gospel; Jesus Christ was not afraid to die on the cross.

Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don’t be afraid to leave the castle. It’s a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader

Do not be afraid to preach the gospel; Jesus was not afraid to die on the cross.

Don't' be afraid, it's not gonna help anyway, does it?

Don't be a bully, don't be mean Be a hero, don't be afraid to be seen.

Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid.

Don't be afraid of suffering. Often scars are the medals of success.

don't be afraid or discouraged to get old, it's a symbol of living don't be afraid or discouraged to express how you feel, it's about honesty and truth don't be afraid or discouraged share not only your pride and happiness and love even the failures, the sadness, and the loneliness and the most important...the yearning to be loved just let it out..don't be afraid or discouraged,

Don't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it.

Don’t be afraid,” he says with a half smile. “You’re with me.” His hand tightens around my wrist, tugging me down again playfully. And this time, I feel safe enough to take a deep breath of my own and do as he says.

....don't be afraid or discouraged to get old, it's a symbol of living don't be afraid or discouraged to express how you feel, it's about honesty and truth don't be afraid or discouraged share not only your pride and happiness and love don't be afraid or discouraged, even the failures, the sadness, and the loneliness and the most important...the yearning to be loved just let it out..don't be afraid or discouraged,

Don’t be afraid of the unknown because you will become enslaved to it

Don't be afraid to bite on a giant, learn from the mosquito

Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.