Quotes about Realism

Most people overestimate what they can do in a month and underestimate what they can do in an hour.

A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

If we begin our day believing life is supposed to be easy, we will certainly have a terrible day. Life is not easy, nor was it ever supposed to be.

People with a realistic view see rejections as a natural part of life and adjust accordingly. It

What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?

Usually, the most disappointing realities come from the most realistic expectations. An unmet longing from a realistic expectation is such a searing pain within a human heart.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

It is remarkable that what we call the world, which is so very credulous in what professes to be true, is most incredulous in what professes to be imaginary; and that, while, every day in real life, it will allow in one man no blemishes, and in another no virtues, it will seldom admit a very strongly-marked character, either good or bad, in a fictitious narrative, to be within the limits of probability.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.