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.

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

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

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

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

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

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

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

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