Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.

I'm not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I'd confront him as well.

I am a fighter and I will fight anybody.

I'm not afraid to stand toe-to-toe and throw punches.

More can I bear than you dare execute.

The sea hates a coward.

As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you-at this time of your life and in this world-will need particularly. That attribute is courage.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.