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.

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

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

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

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.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

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

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

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