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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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