Gloria Estefan Quotes

I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you-at this time of your life and in this world-will need particularly. That attribute is courage.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

Each of us face a moment in our lives called 'the breakdown moment.' This is the time when you must stand toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball, with the very thing you have tried desperately to avoid. In that moment, when there is nothing standing between you and the thing you fear the most, you will be forced to step into your greatness, because that is what life is demanding of you.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

I need to be able to face things.

I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.

One should be brave. It's life, there will be ups and downs. It's only when you are down, that you get the strength to get back up.

Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.

We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy-mate rial or spiritual. We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

Never ran away for the sake of scars.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

I feel like through martial arts I'm able to face my fears head on. It makes me not run away from challenges in life. I'm able to transfer my martial arts training over to other challenges. To be able to conquer your fears is the best feeling in the world.

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.