Top 100 Face Reality Sayings
#1. The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
Thomas Sowell
#2. In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.
Lawrence Bossidy
#3. It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.
Halle Berry
#4. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
Brett Armstrong
#5. I think when you're really stressed out and can't really face reality ... you shop.
Rachel Zoe
#7. You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.
Fred Brooks
#8. Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.
Esther Hicks
#9. I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. - BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW
Melody Beattie
#10. Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
William Glasser
#11. Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
Antonia Bird
#12. Frosties are just Cornflakes for people who can't face reality.
Mark Corrigan
#13. When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!
Karen Maezen Miller
#14. One and all have to face reality now.
Bob Marley
#15. As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.
Brad Warner
#17. We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.
Brian Johnson
#18. There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
#19. Some managers are able to let go of the past better than others. Those that have the greatest difficulty abandoning things are often those unable to face reality.
Henry Cloud
#20. Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
Harold Sherman
#21. Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
John Ortberg
#22. We don't need to face our demons, we only need to face reality.
Marty Rubin
#23. Only a few can survive and face reality without a vice.
Jacob Wild
#24. You face reality, not the lights. The lights go off as quickly as they come on.
James Baldwin
#25. The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
Martin Esslin
#26. There's no reason for any of us to face reality if we don't like it.
Stephanie Rowe
#27. All that remained were poignant memories, and she must face reality, not live on dreams.
Elizabeth Chadwick
#28. It is unwise to refuse to face reality; however if our reality is negative we can still have a positive attitude toward it.
Joyce Meyer
#29. Love must face reality, if it is to survive
Jumping in the Puddles of Life
Loretta Livingstone
#30. How to Face Reality: Don't! Everyone has the right to live in an imaginary world.
Robin Sacredfire
#31. Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#32. Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you'd like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.
Oli Anderson
#33. I use Fiction to face Reality And write dark Stories in hope to brighten my Path.
A. Mani
#34. What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
Pete Townshend
#35. How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
Hortense Odlum
#36. You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
Jesse Jackson
#37. When the senile patient awakens in the morning and asks for his mother, remind him that she is long since dead, that he is over eighty years old and living in a convalescent home, and that this is 1992 and not 1913 and that he must face reality and the fact that
Philip K. Dick
#38. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcolm X
#39. You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.
Peter F. Hamilton
#40. We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.
Jonathan Tropper
#41. Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it you choose either a life of abundant strength and energy, or you're living in the gap, far beneath the quality of life you could be enjoying.
Shawn Phillips
#42. Only our imagination has the power to create the world you want and whatever gives you true joy. Beware of those who tell you to face reality and let go of your imagination. All they may truly ask for is that you shift your imagination from what you want to what they want.
Franco Santoro
#43. The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.
Eliot Spitzer
#44. There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#45. Okay. So what? I can move to another. Life's too short to spend in misery.' 'The biggest mistake is not to face reality,
Peter Gray
#46. You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.
Billy Beane
#47. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Jack Welch
#48. The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
Bell Hooks
#49. You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X
#51. Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
Alexander Pope
#52. Believe it. The world isn't all fairy tales and pixie dust. You need to grow up and face reality.
Melody Anne
#53. Which is more real, when you face reality, or when reality faces you?
Anthony Liccione
#54. It is not good news, but we have to face reality.
Pascal Lamy
#55. In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.
Kristian Kan
#56. An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
George Bernard Shaw
#57. Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.
Jack Welch
#58. We're 5-3, that's what we are. We're 5-3 with three games left. Maybe it doesn't feel like it, but we've got to face reality. We're 5-3, and 8-3 looks a lot better than 5-6 or 6-5. We can make something of our season.
Bryan Cupito
#59. We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
King Hussein
#60. Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.
Evelyn Underhill
#61. Take a good look at them, Mama. We were a wretched mass of fleeing people who had been kicked out of our homes. In just a few seconds, we had become immigrants, something she never wanted to accept. She had to face reality now. Suddenly
Armando Lucas Correa
#62. My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.
Kenneth Chenault
#64. Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.
Richard Dawkins
#65. Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
Ben Gibbard
#66. A free spirit's just an idiot who doesn't want to face reality.
Susan Minot
#67. It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you ... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?
Woody Allen
#68. You have to face reality, and coming off 4-12, you're not going to be the national draw you were previously. But for 13 years, we were a pretty good draw.
Bob Harlan
#69. There is no grief amount wolves. Nature has a wonderful way of making you face reality. You can sit and weep if you want, but you are likely to be killed while you're still in your mourning, because you let your guard down.
Jodi Picoult
#70. One day we shall all face the truth and reality that we all hate.
Auliq Ice
#71. Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
Sherman Edwards
#72. The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis
only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.
Dag Hammarskjold
#73. You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears.
Sandy Woodward
#74. The train blows through town
delivering reality,
slapping my face and screaming,
"You are alone"
Rose colored memories drown,
taking their last breath.
Kellie Elmore
#75. Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.
Hsing Yun
#76. I climbed the stairs and got back into bed, pulling a pillow over my face to block out the summer light. But there was no hiding from reality that morning.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#77. Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#78. There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.
Donald Miller
#79. Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.
Leonard Binder
#80. I was either still dreaming or I had entered an alternate reality where I was a flippin' insane person. I doubted I had entered an alternate reality and a quick slap to my own face proved I wasn't still dreaming. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency
P.S. Martinez
#81. To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realize that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.
Ray Toro
#82. You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it
Brent Weeks
#83. I have no choice but to face whatever my reality has become.
S.J. Watson
#84. Becca had only had to deal with technology and administration issues and had thus far been removed from danger while she was in training for the more serious assignments. As the newest, and smallest, employee at the Society, she was too young and innocent to face the grim reality, anyway.
Anne Marie Becker
#85. If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.
Alfred Noyes
#86. What all life has faced and experienced before you, you still have to face and experience yourself.
Marty Rubin
#87. There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
Tony Blair
#88. friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. HENRI NOUWEN
Laura Petherbridge
#89. Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
Henri Bergson
#90. We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.
Bryant McGill
#91. He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
John Piper
#92. Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.
Bell Hooks
#93. The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Bertrand Russell
#94. The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.
John Edgar Park
#95. Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.
Ralph Ellison
#96. Unless we take the time to regain our perspective and face the reality that life is short, we risk arriving at a destination we didn't choose - or at least one we wouldn't prefer.
Michael Hyatt
#97. 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
#98. Reality is okay if you have a friend that will help you up when it comes around to smack you in the face.
Xena Thornton
#99. Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
Alexandra Bracken
#100. The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.
Karen Marie Moning
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