Confronting Quotes

Confronting a liar makes a better liar. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Consciousness is a process of constant alienation. The mind, through reflection, confronting itself. — Alena Graedon

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are. — Henry Cloud

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage. — Suzanne Finnamore

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities. — Anthony Giddens

I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.
It made me patient when confronting your temper. — Toba Beta

Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia — Josip Broz Tito

For them it's not about immediate perfection. It's about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress. — Carol S. Dweck

Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them. — Ellen Hopkins

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness. — David Brooks

True resistance begins with people confronting pain ... and wanting to do something to change it. — Bell Hooks

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. — Zoe Heller

When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves. — Bryant McGill

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Confronting discomfort is giving me strength, in a world where perfect strangers can render me powerless. — Veronica Larsen

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism. — Tony Blair

As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at. — Richard Castle

Tidying is the act of confronting yourself; cleaning is the act of confronting nature — Marie Kondo

The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them. — Sam Owen

Made one feel one was confronting a man who never doubted of himself. He — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. — Johann Lamont

I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most. — David Archuleta

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions. — George Carey

Fear of confronting emotions is like fear of reading road signs. — Sam Owen

If we succeed without confronting and changing shaking foundation of low self-esteem rooted in contempt of hatred, we will falter along the way. — Bell Hooks

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq. — Sam Brownback

See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ. — Les Brown

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination. — George Jackson

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager. — John Oates

A personal revolution is the consequence of confronting self - as is. — T.F. Hodge

With an effort, the kind you use when confronting an unpleasant duty, — Mark Lawrence

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man. — John Eccles

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. — J. Donald Walters

What makes us heroic?
Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process. — Bell Hooks

If you smell fear - bite on it; it can't bite back. — T.F. Hodge

Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes. — Nina Easton

Sometimes, when confronting the odds, the war is already won. — Angela Khristin Brown

I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men. — Jane Fonda

The spiritual path is all about confronting resistance and finding strength from within. — Deepak Chopra

malevolence has been released from the earth. Instead of laying her ghosts to rest, Jade finds herself confronting — Dale Mayer

He was as powerless and lonely as a river confronting the sea. — Haruki Murakami

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. — Bret Easton Ellis

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided. — Orrin Woodward

There are some things you can't get across without confronting them. — Reki Kawahara

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us. — Emma Goldman

He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. — Yukio Mishima

I might fear but never feared confronting the fears. — Pushpa Rana

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. — Cory Booker

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them! — Margaret Thatcher

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible. — Claude Chabrol

Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state. — Theodor W. Adorno

A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically. — Carrie Vaughn

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats. — Jalal Talabani

Being back here - I'm suddenly confronting the enormity of that kind of commitment. And just how much you can fuck someone up if you half-ass it. — Emma McLaughlin

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. — Thomas Aquinas

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths — Daisaku Ikeda

The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation. — Arlen Specter

The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships. — Dalai Lama

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. — Fareed Zakaria

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. — Robert Hayden

Confronting fear, weaknesses, and neediness by choosing our own thoughts is the way out. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from — Rolf Potts

Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear. — Nely Cab

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk. — Sufjan Stevens

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward. — James Surowiecki

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears. — Michael Trucco

A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists. — Deepak Chopra

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. — Karl Marx

Fearing our confrontations is one thing ... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter. — Mark W. Boyer

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power — Andrea Dworkin

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. — Criss Jami

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. — Lurlene McDaniel

So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word? — Howard G. Hendricks

The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House. — Jeff Goodell

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for. — Jonathan Ive

The real evil is usually the element that makes one nervous while they are confronting or exposing it. — Walid Shoebat

The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure. — Archibald Marwizi

A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what's right, and earning your own self-respect. — David Schnarch

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive — Martin Luther King Jr.

Ignoring the pain is more desirable than confronting it. And that's survival one-oh-one. — Siobhan Davis

Without confronting internalized sexism women
who picked up the feminist banner often betrayed the cause in their
interactions with other women. — Bell Hooks

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man! — Terry Pratchett