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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

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

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