Top 500 Real Quotes (2023 Update)

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Muhammad Ali

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: Choices Quotes

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Hero Quotes

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

— Socrates

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

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Lil Wayne

10. “The real achiever do one thing at a time.”

— Peter F. Drucker

11. “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

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

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Hate Quotes

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

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Anxiety Quotes

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

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Winning Quotes

17. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

19. “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: Habit Quotes

20. “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

21. “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

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

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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, 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

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Terry Pratchett

29. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Science Quotes

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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: Character Quotes

36. “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: Commitment Quotes

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

— Brian Tracy

38. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Desire Quotes

40. “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

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. “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: Truth Quotes

43. “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

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: Carpe Diem Quotes

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

— Maria Montessori

46. “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

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: Hipster Quotes

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

— Lil Wayne

Also featured in: Moving 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. “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