Top 595 Reality Quotes

Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
Ross Perot
I think the reality is that there’s a role for everybody to play in the work of social justice and that we have to organize everybody. That means that Silicon Valley has to be organized, the fashion industry has to be organized, the formerly incarcerated have to be organized, the teachers.
DeRay Mckesson
Art is magic… But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
Hans Hofmann
When you are young, it’s deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There’s almost always some condescension in the proposition that your reality, your hopes, your frustrations, are just a condition of your age, that what feels unique to you is a very common thing after all.
Rumaan Alam
I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn’t find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.
Keith Miller
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
Henri Nouwen
Education from six-year-old to 14 is compulsory in Nigeria, but the simple fact is that a lack of resources, coupled with peoples’ inability to afford books and uniforms mean the reality for millions of Nigerian children is a life without education.
Jay-Jay Okocha
Hostel’ is a hard-hitting reality film depicting actual hostel life and I hope to break from my chocolate boy image.
Vatsal Sheth
Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
Jordan Peterson
You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get ever

You’re doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that’s not the way life’s going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.
Steve Carell
If you’re a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite – but it’s the reality, and part of my personality – yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.
Russell Crowe
Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.
Noel Fielding
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
As far as ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’ is concerned, I think it’s one of the most fairest TV reality shows.
Hina Khan
Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day.
Adam Lashinsky
The narrative behind bitcoin has been dominated by bad behavior. The reality is bitcoin is filled with tons of talented developers building infrastructure.
Tyler Winklevoss
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
Pierre de Coubertin
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.
James Nesbitt
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.
Ray Kurzweil
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
Warren Bennis
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
John Fiske
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it’s real and you’re not to blame.
Umberto Eco
If you have a huge following, you should be sharing a little bit about reality. And reality is not just about lip gloss for me.
Toni Garrn
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Virginia Woolf
I went onto reality TV as a business decision.
Bethenny Frankel
Even the best guys in the sport have losses on their record, and Myles Jury, I just feel like he’s coming up into that reality check with me.
Diego Sanchez
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
Alberto Giacometti
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.
Margaret Atwood
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Garrison Keillor
Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.
Richard Smalley
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
George Soros
What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
DeRay Mckesson
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
Thomas Nagel
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.
John McCain
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge.
James E. Faust
Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that’s only 10% of my life. There’s a whole other side of me that people don’t see.
Kylie Jenner
Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.
Matt Hasselbeck
Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.
Deepak Chopra
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is

The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.
Tony Evans
Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
Marianne Williamson
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Publilius Syrus
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
Paul Arden
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I’d come to take for granted.
David Harewood
Reality, in general, in my opinion, has gotten blurred.
Sam Esmail
As fighters, the stark reality is, there’s times in that cage when we want out. There’s times when we’ve had enough and we want out, and we’re able to recognize defeat.
Chael Sonnen
Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.
Chris Milk
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
Alphonse Karr
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
Stephen Hawking
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
Anna Deavere Smith
‘Playboy’ made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings – not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
LeRoy Neiman
I’ve taken a lot of risks through the years, but I always followed my instincts and always explored new opportunities. The biggest reward has been having an idea and being able to make it a reality. My passions always lead the way – travel and adventure, fitness, art, and home.
Cynthia Rowley
Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.
Joe Kaeser
Of course, Minneapolis, we think, ‘Oh well, it’s cold there, lethally cold.’ But the reality is you adapt to weather… Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
Dan Buettner
Augmented reality will change the world more than a lot of other technologies. Traveling around to meet people will be much less important when you can stand in a room and chat with a virtual representation of a person that’s so close to reality – it’ll be a whole new level.
Tim Sweeney