Top 75 Realist Quotes

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
Paul Wellstone
I’m a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.
Danny K. Davis
I’m a realist.
Sheila Hancock
I’m a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.
Telly Savalas
I’m a realist.
Kamaru Usman
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you’re a realist!
Jennifer Egan
I refuse to use terms like ‘optimist’ or ‘pessimist’ and instead prefer ‘realist.’
David Petraeus
I’m a realist and I always have been.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
Gore Vidal
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
Cameron Sinclair
I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I’m a revolutionary – but not in the political sense.
John Cassavetes