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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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