Confront Quotes

• We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

  

  Maya Angelou
  • See
  • Ourselves
  • Rise

• We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Courage
  • Condemned

• How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Wonder
  • Terror
  • Confront

• The actions to standardize and consolidate our operations and technology platforms and improve our efficiency will take place over the next 12 to 18 months, ... We believe we can manage the dynamics we confront while improving our growth opportunities.

  

  John Reed
  • Believe
  • Actions
  • Efficiency

• It's a clever move, they don't want to directly confront the regime.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Regime
  • Confront
  • Directly

• I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Fear

• There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

  

  Denise Levertov
  • Confront
  • Marvelous
  • Guise

• “I have a feeling of - wanting to confront my enemies. No, of wanting to confront the enemy part of my friends.

  

  James Keller
  • Feeling
  • Enemies
  • Confront

• The idea of ignoring your past, only to confront it later in life, is a familiar experience whether you come here from Hungary or French Canada or Ireland.

  

  Reg E. Cathey
  • Experience
  • Idea
  • Familiar

• We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Resources
  • Confront
  • Solitute

• The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Wealth
  • Confront
  • Equivalent

• In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Hope
  • Peace
  • Britain

• He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

  

  Plutarch
  • Circumstances
  • Confront
  • Aright

• If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Society
  • Combat
  • Anti-Semitism

• These (election) results may confront us with an entirely new situation which will need to be analyzed.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Results
  • Confront
  • Analyzed

• We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.

  

  Carl Mydans
  • War
  • Control
  • Adversary

• ...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Real
  • Dangerous

• It's only until we confront the darkness of our past that we can responsibly move forward.

  

  Winston Duke
  • Move
  • Confront
  • Responsibly

• When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.

  

  Buck 65
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Face

• Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.

  

  Boaz Ganor
  • Decision
  • Terrorism
  • Policies

• At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Thinking
  • Confront
  • Step By Step

• The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

  

  David Toop
  • Meaning
  • Longer
  • Obliged

• While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

  

  Mike Ross
  • Middle
  • Worked
  • Washington

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