Realistic Quotes

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

~ Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

~ Debasish Mridha

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 without needing someone to save.

~ Brandon Varnell

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.

~ Brandon Varnell

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, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save.

~ Brandon Varnell

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, for one cannot be a hero without needing someone to save.

~ Brandon Varnell

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.

~ Craig Groeschel

A Pause tends the existence of any definition to its end.

~ Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such a way that we can fulfill the expectations we create.

~ Marian Deegan

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.

~ Veronica Roth

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

~ India Knight

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.

~ Amen Muffler

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I prefer to be a sad screwed stupid bitch, than a fucking liar, fake and pretender that has to put different masks per day.

~ Sara Keddar

In that second, I think about running through that door and going with him. But I know that it’s not the road I’m meant for.Because we’re both still incapable of love. We’re both not ready yet.And I know that I’ll miss him. And some nights, I’ll cry in my sleep.But for now, I’m okay. And that’s all that matters.The void in my heart has finally been filled.And as the train moves farther and farther from me on the platform, I can only smile.

~ L. Jayne

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

~ Lisa Gardiner

What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.

~ May Sarton

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

If you expect perfection from other people your whole life is a series of disappointments grumbling and complaints. If on the contrary you pitch your expectations low taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

~ Bruce Barton

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

~ Margaret Deland

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

~ George Eliot

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

~ L. M. Montgomery

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.

~ Italian Proverb

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

~ Marcelene Cox

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

~ George Santayana

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

~ Flannery O'connor

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.

~ Madeleine L'engle

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

No one is happy all his life long.

~ Euripides

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

~ Marcus Aurelius

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

~ Ludwig Lewisohn

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

~ Herbert Hoover

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

~ Abigail Van Buren

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages.

~ Nichiren Daishonen

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

~ O. Henry

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

~ George Eliot