#afraid

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' ↗

— John Abbott

#afraid #answer #anything #ashamed #ask

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#also #best #best friend #everyone #failing

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#been #daughters #eve #fine #fine thing

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. ↗

— Maude Adams

#failure #petty #success

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. ↗

— Aeschylus

#afraid #i #learning #sail #ship

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#believed #challenges #faith #i #lack

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#criticism #i #may #somebody #think

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people. ↗

— Richard McKenna

#am #banks #citizen #control #create

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#cooking #i #like #rules #want

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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