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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.