If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.