George W. Norris Quotes

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

We must do as we may when we may not do as we would.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

You've got to understand and accept that nothing in the world is perfect. The sooner you understand that, the better it will be.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

To take the world as one finds it

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.