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

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.

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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

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