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.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

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

African women in general need to know that it is OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

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

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

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

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Comedy is defiance. It is a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it is the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Fear is exciting for me.

The fear really hits you. That is what you feel first. And then it is the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.