Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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