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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

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