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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

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