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.

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

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

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

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

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

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

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

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

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