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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.