Realization Quotes - Page 2

• It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

  Emmet Fox

  Love, Motivational, Mistake

  Emmet Fox (1940). “Power Through Constructive Thinking”

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• You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

  Denis Waitley

  Dream, Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination

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• Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination

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• Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Happy Birthday, Mean, People

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• The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Mean, Goal

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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• The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

  Stephen Hawking

  God, Science, Order

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.104, Random House

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• The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Thinking, Secret, Want

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• Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Fear, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A Fresh Look at Empiricism 1927-42”

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• You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

  Larry Page

  Dream, Loss, Entrepreneur

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• India is the meeting-place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Sri Lanka, India

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

  Daniel Burnham

  Motivational, Hope, Work

  "Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities" by Charles Moore, Vol. 2, (p. 147), 1921.

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• An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

  Theodor Adorno

  Hands, Differences, Culture

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.79, Univ of California Press

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• When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realisation dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

  Julian Assange

  Reading, Book, Littles

  "So, Mr Assange, why won't you go back to Sweden now?" by Catherine Bennett, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2010.

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• Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

  Lou Gerstner

  Inspirational, Dream, Compassion

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• Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Opposites, Goal, Causes

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.109, Middleway Press

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• The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mean, Maturity, Ideas

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

  Jim Sanborn

  Cryptography, Mathematics, Used

  Jonathan P. Binstock, Jim Sanborn (2003). “Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction”, Corcoran Gallery Of Art

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• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Nature

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• More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

  Gabriel Heatter

  Men, Hands, Boss

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

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• Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.

  Conor Oberst

  Mean, Kids, Insecure

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• Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

  Adam Schiff

  Anniversary, Dream, Kings

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• For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Healing, Writing, Comeback

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• God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Struggle, Heart

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Life And Love, Ambition

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