Confronting Quotes

• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Choices, Challenges

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• Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Hater, Witty

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• Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

  Jim Rohn

  Determination, Challenges, Soul

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• Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.

  Donna Brazile

  Running, Tough Times, African American

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• There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Country, Law, Play

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• I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.

  Drake

  Confidence, Hater, Humble

  Song: A Scorpio's Mind

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• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

  August Wilson

  Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness

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• I find that white people in general, including white liberals and even revolutionaries, are most inclined to call you a racist when they don't want to confront the ugly realities that their racism has created. In their eyes, when you attempt to address those realities from your perspective you become a racist.

  Runoko Rashidi

  Eye, Reality, White

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• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  J. William Fulbright

  Change, Thinking, World

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• The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Believe, Progress

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

  Henry Cloud

  Painful, Persons, Irresponsible

  "Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No". Book by Henry Cloud, September 9, 2008.

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Positive, Powerful, Men

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• We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.

  Billy Graham

  Needs, May, Facts

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• Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Children, Pride, Errors

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• Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

  Fred Thompson

  Military, Cyberspace, Information

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• Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they aren’t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Optimistic, Impact, People

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• 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

  Heart, Issues, Way

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!

  Warren Spector

  Real, Player, Thinking

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• I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

  Andrew Denton

  Hate, People, Individual

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Baby, Courage, Journey

  Cherie Carter-Scott (1999). “If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul”, p.104, Harmony

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• What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.

  Brad Carson

  Country, Issues, Trying

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• One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Hate, Independent, School

  Journal entry for April 15, 1937. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 14, 1993.

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• The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Tasks, Figures

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 114, 1988.

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