Quotes About Influence Of Fear

#1. Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#2. Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Livy

#3. In my experience, the human mind, when under the influence of fear, rushes round in frantic circles.

Georgette Heyer

#4. Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

Maria Edgeworth

#5. When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

Byron Katie

#6. The majority of people permit relatives, friends,
and the public at large to so influence them
that they cannot live their own lives,
because they fear criticism.

Napoleon Hill

#7. Since the caveman days, fear has been a powerful motivator that can influence our decision-making. Nowadays, however, we aren't running from wild animals, but instead are afraid of emotional trauma, change, disappointment and rejection.

Elaina Marie

#8. The fear of not measuring up robs us of seeing the value in our influence, and it keeps us on a perpetual quest to be better than others.

Jenni Catron

#9. If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. The only way to live is to forget that you're going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#12. Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

Peter Cushing

#13. When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended.

Iain Pears

#14. A trusted man doesn't flip-flop on where he stands. He says what he means and stand where he stands.He's not easily influenced by fear. He's influenced by destiny and will not be taken advantage of.

Henry Johnson Jr

#15. What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#16. Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

Horace

#17. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

J.K. Rowling

#18. And where do you see in all this the influence of the Castle?" asked K. "So far it doesn't seem to have come in. What you've told me about is simply the ordinary senseless fear of the people, malicious pleasure in hurting a neighbor, specious friendship, things that can be found anywhere, ...

Franz Kafka

#19. Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.

Susan Holloway Scott

#20. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell

#21. After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.

Rick Riordan

#22. Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Dorothea Dix

#23. We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

John Adams

#24. Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

Thomas Paine

#25. staying out of wars and political confrontations and zeroing in on business - its global influence far exceeds its existing economic strength. Nations do not fear China's military might; they fear its ability to give or withhold trade and investments."2

Robert D. Blackwill

#26. Yeah, sci-fi is definitely a big influence on Fear Factory. I've had people tell me we always sing about the same thing but it's like well, if we were a black metal band we'd sing about Satan, you know? What if we were a Christian metal band? All the songs would be about how much we loved Jesus.

Dino Cazares

#27. If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

Franz Grillparzer

#28. Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.

Robert A. Caro

#30. There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by ... swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Henry Clay

#31. Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. Jesus repeatedly emphasized the power of good thoughts and proper motives: 'Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not'
In Proverbs we read, 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#32. One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Anthony Liccione