Being Exceptional

“When being exceptional the one thing you will realize is inevitably you will be alone.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Tyrants' Largess

“Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, “Long live the King!” The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.”
--Étienne de La Boétie

Freedom of Others

“People came to realize that not standing up for the freedom of others meant surrendering one’s own freedom.”
--Václav Havel

Not In Your Life

“At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.”
--Sandi Lynn

Life Dependencies

“Our life depends on one another. And as you begin to realize that, you can't help but be grateful.”
--Blanche Hartman

Dare to be Great

“We must dare to be great, and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

Now Push You

“Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Opinion Independent

“In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.”
--Bruce Lee

Future Mistrust

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
--Chuck Palahniuk

No Power Past

“Your past is just a story. and once you realize this it has no power over you.”
--Chuck Palahniuk

Not Liked

“Realize not everybody is going to like you. Most people don't even like themselves.”
--Unknown

Life of Gratitude

“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude.”
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Well Connected

“To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Rejected To Better

“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”
―Steve Maraboli

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Dreams Realized

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.”
--Man Ray

Great Leadership

“Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.”
--Jeffrey Fry

An Insecure Defense

“Is the insecurity you are defending worth the dream you’ll never realize or the love you’ll never venture or the joy you’ll never feel?”
--Lachlan Cotter

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Wisdom's Dichotomy

“To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Close Does Not Count

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
--Thomas Alva Edison