Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

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

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

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

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

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.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

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