Quotes About Facing Yourself

#1. The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.

Joe Strummer

#2. To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.

Bryant McGill

#3. Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.

Corey Irwin

#4. That in turn made him think of some poem or other, one about how you could spend years running, but in the end you always wound up facing yourself in a hotel room, with a naked bulb hanging overhead and a revolver on the table.

Stephen King

#5. Facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. Good or bad the idea is simply to face the facts. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself without cutting yourself down.

Chogyam Trungpa

#6. You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

Jewel

#7. Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself

Steve Kluger

#8. See yourself as a pioneer in a new world. We are not facing the end of the world, as some would have us believe, but the greatest adventure of our lives. We have the unique opportunity to write a new chapter in the history of humankind, to be active participants in shaping a new world.

Jed Diamond

#9. Do you find yourself facing a challenge and too tired to pray? Allow the power of prayer to revive your spirit and restore your physical and mental vigor. By following Nehemiah's example, you will have the energy needed to defeat the enemy and thrive in the midst of your challenges.

Lysa TerKeurst

#10. The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

Max Lucado

#11. Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

Anthony Liccione

#12. Feet on ground,
Heart in hand,
Facing forward,
Be yourself.

Jann Arden

#13. I think that facing your own ugliness ... and trying to change yourself
turning your scars into strengths ... is very strong and beautiful.

Minari Endou

#14. Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

Susana Fortes

#15. When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)

Christopher Healy

#16. The issue is not what you may be facing, rather your interpretation of it. Always think in a positive light to create a better world for yourself and others.

Steven Redhead

#17. When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.

Stephen Richards

#18. What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and see what youre capable of. Your true goal is not to conquer fifty feet of inanimate rock, but to expand your abilities through learning.

Arno Hintjens

#19. The weakest spot in a good defence is designed to fail. It falls, but in falling it summons the next defence and so on. It's all about layers. At the end of it all you'll find yourself facing the thing you sought to avoid all along, only now you're weaker, and it's forewarned.

Mark Lawrence

#20. If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don't be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.

Joyce Meyer

#21. No. All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in. And I have looked in. . . .

Leo Tolstoy

#22. Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared.

Frantisek Kupka

#23. You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

L. Frank Baum

#24. You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.

J.K. Rowling

#25. Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Jose Mourinho

#26. Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts ... ... Knowing is KEY to acceptance.

Abby Espiritu

#27. Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking from your heart. That's something that's not easy to do, you set yourself up for all sorts of criticism or vulnerability but that's why we do it.

Brett Dennen

#28. You can take your fitness seriously, but not yourself. That's the most difficult part: not to relax. That's the most difficult challenge I'm facing every fight.

Wladimir Klitschko

#29. Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.

Tite Kubo

#30. Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs

Eileen Caddy

#31. Don't complain if your're facing hard moments in life. Challenge yourself to face it, challenge yourself to beat it.

Jayson Engay

#32. When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

Martin Villeneuve

#33. It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

Katherine McNamara

#34. We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

Bryant McGill

#35. What all life has faced and experienced before you, you still have to face and experience yourself.

Marty Rubin

#36. One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.

Zachary Cole Smith

#37. Be persistent and never give up. I had to deal with facing stereotypes and had a lot of people doubt me and my ability to drum, but I didn't let it phase me. You just have to believe in yourself. And of course, PRACTICE.

Jess Bowen