Fear Motivates Us 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. the way of men. One fights one's battles alone, not asking mercy nor expecting help.

Louis L'Amour

#4. 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

#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. 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

#7. A man wouldn't be holding a girl on a bridge like he's about to toss her over. I swear on my patch, killing you is not in the Terror's plans." - Pigpen

Katie McGarry

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

Jonny Wilkinson

#9. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Oscar Wilde

#10. 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

#11. Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.

Jillian Michaels

#12. The world is just waiting for you to come dance.

Tina Marie L. Lamb

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

Farshad Asl

#14. 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

#15. I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy.
I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table
gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell,
transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.

Roja Dove