Quotes About Facing

I don't hide from unpleasant possibilities," the Somber Knight replied. "I embrace them. Some call it pessimism. I see it as an advantage.

Then again I shifted my eyes-I faced what I had to face.

It's to be something you're merely to suffer? Well, say to wait for--to have to meet, to face, to see suddenly break out in my life; possibly destroying all further consciousness, possibly annihilating me; possibly, on the other hand, only altering everything, striking at the root of all my world and leaving me to the consequences, however they shape themselves.

Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion.

My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I've made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow.

Scholars who write of Moscow facing an "uncooperative world economy" have it exactly backward.

Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you;

Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.

When something is festering in your memory or 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 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...

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for

Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.

You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

Fear is more than a wasted emotion. It's the penultimate set of blinders. If you can't face the truth of your reality, you can't be a part of it, can't control it. You may as well throw in the towel and yield to the whims of anyone with a stronger will.

Indeed, there are times the most desirable, correct, necessary action results in catastrophic consequences. We're facing them now.

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

THE GREAT HEROISM OF A SOBER LIFE is getting up in the morning and facing the day, greeting others, going out into the world with something to give. When we are in the grave of our own thoughts, feeling like we will never be able to crawl back out, our fingernails packed with dirt, how is it that sometime later we can be laughing, and laughing hard?

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

In facing up to the knotty problem so early in the conflict, Marshall began to reveal why he would prove the one really indispensable American military leader of the Second World War.

I try to do my job and be a decent person, and a decent person has the courage to face what is not necessarily pleasant, what is perhaps dark and troublesome.

We made the mistake of trusting the Chinese and then compounded it by allowing our men to go out to face them with their hands literally tied behind their backs. Galwan was a totally avoidable tragedy.

Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.

There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.

Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you; for without critical judgement, the weapon you wield delivers – and let us not be coy here – naught but murder. And its first victim is the moral probity of your cause.