Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.