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Quotes About Facing

I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. —BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW
~ Melody Beattie
I'd like to make a motion that we face reality.
~ Melody Beattie
It is the way in which the Dark returns, Harrier. I will explain, if you like. Oh, no, Harrier said. I'd much rather not know a thing about what we're facing. Let me get dressed first. A few minutes later Harrier came back, dressed for the day. He made another cup of hot cordial for Tiercel, refilled the kettle and started the water brewing for tea, and set some dried fruit to soak for griddle-cakes. Okay. Now. Ruin my day, he invited.
~ Mercedes Lackey
When we turn pro, we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
~ Steven Pressfield
It had felt liberating to acknowledge this to himself and others, to shed his painful sense of the obligation to be somehow remarkable; but it left him with the unanswered question of what to do with his life, and simultaneously the realization that working on the novel endlessly had been a way to avoid facing that question.
~ Sue Miller
Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.
~ Susan Neiman
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
~ Jude Morgan
Was den Menschen vom Tier unterschied, war die Fähigkeit, im Angesicht der Katastrophe "Siehste!" zu denken.
~ Juli Zeh
Teams are already marking me individually: they are putting two players there on my side. Unfortunately, it's difficult, but I'm doing what I can. I'm facing them. I'm making assists. I'm trying to score my goals.
~ Richarlison
My goal is to get all these fighters that everybody say I'm running from inside the ring with me.
~ Terence Crawford
People can change, learn, and grow, and it's better to face your demons instead of perpetually running away from them.
~ Jessica Rothe
How can I get rid of fear?" I reply, "By walking up to the thing you are afraid of.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
At times when you transform yourself and when you've opened too much, you tend to doubt how you're going to face it, how you're going to react to a situation, so it's important that you believe yourself.
~ Dinesh Karthik
nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
~ David Gemmell, Dark Moon
What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer.
~ Robert Tew
Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.
~ Jay Woodman
The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.
~ Nina LaCour, We Are Okay
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
~ Hussein of Jordan
When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...
~ Tennessee Williams
To feel apprehensive about certain things is normal, but in doing them, in conquering our fears- that is where the true rewards are. That is when we accomplish great things." He gazed down at her lovely profile and wondered how it was possible that a woman could make him feel so content and inspired, yet so enormously randy at the same time. "I agree," he said, struggling to focus on the subject at hand. "Life has to be faced head-on with courage and fortitude.
~ Julianne MacLean
If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.
~ Matthew Desmond
Fear is the mind-killer…. I will face my fear.
~ Frank Herbert