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50 Quotes About Facing Reality

List Of 50 Quotes About Facing Reality:

#1 Jack Welch

“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”

#2 Desiderius Erasmus

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”

#3 Antonia Bird

“Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in clichés and lies, fighting to find a way out … that’s what ‘Rehab’ is about.”

#4 Ji Chang-wook

“Of course, my mind changed as I started to face reality.”

#5 Ben Gibbard

“Living this life … you’re able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.”

#6 John Ortberg

“Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader – the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye … it’s what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.”

#7 Hussein of Jordan

“We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory…”
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#8 Rob Pilatus

“The scandal caused us a lot of pain, but I guess it made us face reality.”

#9 Malcolm XMalcolm X

“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”

#10 Lawrence M. Krauss

“Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on.”

#11 Kenneth Chenault

“My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability.”

#12 Carrie Lam

“Let’s face reality. To ensure Hong Kong remains competitive, we have to uphold a very low tax regime.”

#13 Burna Boy

“Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.”

#14 Max CavaleraMax Cavalera

“If you face problems, face reality, even when it’s hard sometimes you can wake up faster and do something to make things better.”

#15 Dylan Llewellyn

“But we’ve got to face reality.”

#16 Henry Cloud

“There is a big difference between hurt and harm … Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt.”

#17 Gautama Buddha

“All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.”

#18 Rick Warren

“Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.”

#19 Philip K. Dick

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

#20 Bob Thaves

“I believe in facing reality. But only because I don’t like turning my back on it.”

#21 Lily Tomlin

“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.”

#22 Eugene T. Gendlin

“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse. Not being open about it doesn’t make it go away.”

#23 C. JoyBell C.

“Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face.”

#24 Michael Bassey Johnson

“Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.”

#25 Laura Davis

“Many survivors struggle to believe the abuse happened. They don’t want to accuse family members or face the terrible loss.”

#26 Karen Marshall

“When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.”

#27 Michael Bassey Johnson

“The bed of thorns will teach you what the bed of roses can’t.”

#28 Nicky Verd

“It’s your life. It’s up to you to make it better.”

#29 Nelson Mandela

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

#30 John LennonJohn Lennon

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”

#31 Robert Frost

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”

#32 Oscar WildeOscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

#33 Aristotle

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

#34 Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey Quotes

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

#35 Buddha

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

#36 Steve JobsSteve Jobs famous quote

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

#37 Wayne Gretzky

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

#38 Confucius

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

#39 Henry FordHenry Ford quotes

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

#40 Elizabeth Edwards

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.”

#41 Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.”

#42 Nikos Kazantzakis

“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”

#43 Robertson Davies

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

#44 Rachel Carson

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us.”

#45 John Lennon

“The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets.”

#46 Ai Yazawa

“The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.”

#47 J.K. Rowling

“You must accept the reality of other people. … You must accept that you are not God.”

#48 Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”

#49 Bill Clinton

“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.”

#50 Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson famous quote

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

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