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.

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.

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

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

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

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

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

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

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