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

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

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

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

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

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

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

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

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

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.