Facing Quotes

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. (Gillian Anderson)
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. View quote
Joseph Conrad
I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. View quote
Ayn Rand
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion. View quote
Clarence Darrow
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them. View quote
Yasser Arafat
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. View quote
Carl Jung
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. View quote
Brian Tracy
The most important political task facing the out-of-power party- the Democrats for now- is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign. View quote
Pat Sajak
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems. (Martha Beck)
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public. View quote
Placido Domingo
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience. View quote
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. View quote
Keith Miller
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. View quote
Mary Wesley
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring. View quote
Russ Carnahan
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist. View quote
Warren Rudman
The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock. View quote
Kingoro Hashimoto
I think it would be much better for the country and for (Clinton) personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone. View quote
Mark Sanford
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing? View quote
John Lennon
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending. (Nicholas G. Carr)
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe. View quote
Vasily Chuikov
A lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters. View quote
Margaret Atwood
There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far - quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it. View quote
Al Gore
I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation. View quote
Ted Cruz