Realistic Quotes - Page 3

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.

Not all dreams are possible or realistic. When this happens you have to bade them farewell. This isn't failure, but it's a sign of maturity and learning on your part. All you need to do is rethink what you wanted to do, in the first place,and see what you can change.Then that is called determination and that, will lead to you having success.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have the more we want. And for this reason we never have it all.

Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!

Prophecy is nothing but only just an estimation based on regularities of the Nature.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do what experience tells you to do and what your nerves let you do.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness. ... We expect too much.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others in order to save them, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save.

. We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values. That realism forces us to confront a question facing every leader and nation in this room. It is a question we cannot escape or avoid. We will slide down the path of complacency, numb to the challenges, threats, and even wars that we face. Or do we have enough strength and pride to confront those dangers today, so that our citizens can enjoy peace and prosperity tomorrow?

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

No Doctor I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

You might plan how to sleep but you can't plan how to wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans out to wake up is a Dreamer.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.

A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.

We cannot all be masters.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

There's no map there's no master plan there's just people.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.