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

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.

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

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

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

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

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

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

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

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