Fear Motivates Quotes

#1. Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Jonny Wilkinson

#3. It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. The God of Quran is trying to unskin Muslims from their humanity. Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#5. Ethan, you can choose to hope or you can choose to fear. Fear is a crippling disease. It takes over and paralyzes. Hope bolsters, motivates. People who fear, die. People who hope, live. Even in death they live.

Fisher Amelie

#6. If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything? ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is a powerful motivator.

Arron Wood

#8. Disaster unites families, not excess.

Madeleine Henry

#9. We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

Jonny Wilkinson

#11. I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.

Andrea Bocelli

#12. On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear.

Dave Barry

#13. Oh happy Meat. Oh happy Soul. Oh happy Rabo Karabekian.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. So what motivates you more? The fear of failure or the fantastic feeling of achieving your dreams?

Farshad Asl

#15. This is Just to Say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

William Carlos Williams

#16. What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.

Annette Bening