Facing Reality Quotes:

Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.

- Rick Warren

topic: Reality, Facing Reality, Discouraged

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

- Bob Thaves

topic: Believe, Reality, Facing Reality

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

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Reality, Facing Reality, Unhappiness

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

- Margaret Halsey

source: Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

topic: Mean, Reality, Ideas, Facing Reality

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

- M. Scott Peck

topic: Motivational, Reality, Emotional, Facing Reality, Emotional Health

The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

- Jack Welch

topic: Art, Mistake, Simple, Mistakes You've Made, Facing Reality

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

- Jack Welch

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Reality, Competitive Advantage, Facing Reality

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.

- Douglas Everett

topic: Dream, Reality, People, Follow Your Passion, Dream Reality

There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt.

- Henry Cloud

topic: Hurt, Reality, Differences, Hard Truths, Facing Reality

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

- Philip K. Dick

topic: Atheist, Real, Believe, Spiritual Awareness, Don't Stop Believing

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

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Funny, Leadership, Stress, Inspirational Stress, Leading Causes

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. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

- Eugene Gendlin

source: "Focusing". Book by Eugene Gendlin, 1978.

topic: Integrity, People, Going Away, Facing Reality

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

- John Lennon

source: Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), January 13, 2003.

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Imagine That, Surrealism

I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Heart, Reality, Imagination, Facing Reality, Ashley Wilkes

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

- William Hague

topic: Reality, Today, Faces, Facing Reality

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Disturbing the Universe" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 17, (p. 193), 1979.

topic: Witty, Attitude, Freedom, Mind Opening, Opening Your Mind

Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

- John Bolton

topic: Reality, Thinking, Weapons, Sept 11, Facing Reality

Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

- Natalie Angier

source: Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Science, Reality, Squares, Facing Reality

That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.

- Gary Reilly

topic: Reality, Trying, Facing Reality