Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.
We fear the thing we want the most.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
Only your mind can produce fear.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.
I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.
I am never afraid of what I know.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
