The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made.
If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.
A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures. ' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death. "
Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.
Don't be afraid to get stupid and feel it. Remember everyone's looking at me and not you.
For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.
If you can be not afraid to be laughed at, you could do so many things.
In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.
I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.
I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.
I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.
If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.
Not to let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur is something that you shouldn't do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us are afraid for us and talk us out of it.
