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

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

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

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

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