Realization Quotes

• 

  The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945, final lines, in Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 616

  119 Copy quote

  Show source

• The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

  Alden Nowlan

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Wise

  78 Copy quote
• 

  I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Effort, Leader

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  Jean Toomer

  Ignorance, Knowing, Justice

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

  121 Copy quote

• Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Taken, Thinking

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.68, Lulu.com

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

  Henry Ford

  Happiness, Work, Inspiration

  21 Copy quote

• Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

  Sargent Shriver

  Men, Opinion, Worthy

  19 Copy quote

• Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Life, Inspiring, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

  313 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Reality, Self

  15 Copy quote

• There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

  Antonin Scalia

  Freedom, Order, Political

  "Opinion By Scalia Opposes Broad View Of Police Power" by Stuart Taylor Jr., www.nytimes.com. March 4, 1987.

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Death, Men, Dying

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

  Irving Langmuir

  Home, Awards, Mind

  7 Copy quote

• The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

  Betty Buckley

  Equality, Race, Giving

  7 Copy quote

• The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Interesting, Challenges, Humanity

  7 Copy quote

• In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

  Bill Porter

  Body, Next, Faces

  26 Copy quote

• The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be?

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Death, Sleep, Unity

  15 Copy quote

• Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

  David Guterson

  Who I Am, Play, Together

  16 Copy quote

• With the exception of very few who have gained higher spiritual tendencies in prior lives, Self-realization is not possible for anyone without the blessings of a guru. Think of the guru as the manifestation of God in this world. Take even the most insignificant word of the guru as an order and obey it. That is the real service to the guru. There is no greater austerity. The guru's blessings flow automatically to any obedient disciple. That is the real service to the guru.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

  Emmet Fox

  Life, Change, Art

  Emmet Fox (1938). “The Sermon on the Mount: a general introduction to scientific Christianity in the form of a spiritual key to Matthew V, VI, and VII”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Reflection, Self

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.50, Verso

  14 Copy quote

  Show source