Definition of Realize

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Realize

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.

To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.

To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.

To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.

To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.

To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.

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Realize Quotations

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
Maya Angelou

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Tony Robbins

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Michael Jordan

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
George Carlin

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

Realize Translations

realize in Afrikaans is verstaan, besef
realize in Dutch is beseffen, bevatten, begrijpen
realize in Italian is riconoscere, realizzare, comprendere, attuare
realize in Spanish is comprender, entender, connocer, idear

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