Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”

— Zig Ziglar

102. “There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”

— Erich Fromm

103. “The real Da’wah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

104. “If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.”

— Rumi

105. “Real strength has to do with helping others.”

— Fred Rogers

106. “The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.”

— Steve Jobs

107. “Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.”

— John Steinbeck

108. “A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”

— Tony Robbins

109. “The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

110. “The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

111. “You break free when you feel neither beneath anyone nor superior to anyone, when you shed the need to control other people, when you create space for others to be who they are and for your real self to be what it is.”

— Deepak Chopra

112. “Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.”

— Brennan Manning

113. “Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they’re not making any more.”

— Will Rogers

114. “Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

115. “There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.”

— Ronald Reagan

116. “Whatever you know, or don’t – only Love is real.”

— Rumi

117. “The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.”

— Zig Ziglar

118. “The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.”

— Tony Robbins

119. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”

— Brené Brown

120. “Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward – get real with yourself.”

— Bryant McGill

121. “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

122. “Pain or love or danger makes you real again...”

— Jack Kerouac

123. “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

— Albert Camus

124. “Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

125. “Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”

— George Orwell

126. “The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.”

— Robin S. Sharma

127. “We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

128. “You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

— Cheryl Strayed

129. “Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.”

— Robin S. Sharma

130. “Time is a mind construct. It’s not real.”

— Prince

131. “Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

132. “A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.”

— Marianne Williamson

133. “The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.”

— Albert Camus

134. “Real power comes by empowering others.”

— Denis Waitley

135. “A joy shared is a joy doubled.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

136. “Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.”

— Paulo Coelho

137. “There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.”

— Honoré de Balzac

138. “How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.”

— William Wordsworth

139. “Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.”

— Eckhart Tolle

140. “The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”

— James Baldwin

141. “Real improvement is of slow growth only.”

— Seneca the Younger

142. “Love is real, real is love.”

— John Lennon

143. “Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

144. “By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.”

— Deepak Chopra

145. “God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.”

— Oswald Chambers

146. “Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.”

— Orison Swett Marden

147. “Being busy does not always mean real work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

148. “For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.”

— Isabel Allende

149. “Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.”

— Billy Graham

150. “May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon