Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m not perfect. But I’ll always be real.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Artist Quotes

2. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

3. “Don’t believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies.”

— Tupac Shakur

4. “Danger is very real but fear is a choice.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Choices Quotes

5. “The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Hero Quotes

6. “Things change; that’s the way it is.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Short Quotes, Moving On Quotes

7. “Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Values Quotes, Common Sense Quotes

8. “Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.”

— Lil Wayne

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Challenges Quotes

9. “Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.”

— Socrates

10. “In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Mistake Quotes

11. “The real achiever does one thing at a time.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Productivity Quotes

12. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Winning Quotes, Fear Quotes

13. “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Stoic Philosophy Quotes, Anxiety Quotes

14. “Real bliss is to have peace of mind.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Peace of Mind Quotes

15. “Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Kindness Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Helping Quotes

16. “Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Determination Quotes, Habit Quotes

17. “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Winning Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

18. “Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.”

— C.G. Jung

19. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.”

— Muhammad Ali

20. “Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word ‘emotion’ stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes

21. “A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Also featured in: Soul Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Men

22. “You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Passion Quotes, Quotes About Believing

23. “If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Personality Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

24. “The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Opportunity Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Ambition Quotes

25. “The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Changing the World Quotes

26. “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Imagination Quotes

27. “When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

28. “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Funny Work Quotes

29. “Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Reflection Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Character Quotes

30. “Real eyes, realize, real lies...”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Artist Quotes, Liars Quotes

31. “I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”

— Albert Einstein

32. “Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser – having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!”

— Donald Trump

Also featured in: Ego Quotes

33. “The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.”

— Nikola Tesla

34. “Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Satisfaction Quotes, Monday Motivation Quotes

35. “If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Inspirational Business Quotes

36. “Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Science Quotes

37. “There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

38. “In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Sales Motivational Quotes

39. “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Work Ethic Quotes, Efficiency Quotes

40. “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

— René Descartes

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Truth Quotes, Doubt Quotes

41. “Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Quotes About Children, Quotes About Growing Up

42. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Wise Quotes

43. “Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

44. “If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”

— Robin Williams

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Passion Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Graduation Quotes

45. “One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom.”

— Swami Vivekananda

46. “Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness.”

— Maria Montessori

47. “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

— Aldous Huxley

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Hipster Quotes

48. “Proverbs are all very fine when there’s nothing to worry you, but when you’re in real trouble, they’re not a bit of help.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes

49. “I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Moving Quotes

50. “Real gs move in silence like lasagna.”

— Lil Wayne

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Silly Quotes, Moving Quotes, Short Funny Quotes