Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.”

— John C. Maxwell

152. “We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.”

— C. S. Lewis

153. “Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.”

— John Keats

154. “Don’t judge me by the cover, ’cause I’m a real good book.”

— Dolly Parton

155. “The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else’s dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.”

— Oprah Winfrey

156. “Real men stay faithful. They don’t have time to look for other women because they’re too busy looking for new ways to love their own.”

— John F. Kennedy

157. “If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.”

— Byron Katie

158. “Your imagination is more real than the world you see, because the world you see comes from what you imagine and believe! What you believe and feel to be true is what will be your life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

159. “I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it’s expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it’s perils.”

— Charlotte Brontë

160. “The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.”

— Bertrand Russell

161. “We’re hallucinating. And that’s what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.”

— Marianne Williamson

162. “When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.”

— Maria Montessori

163. “A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

164. “The real excitement is playing the game.”

— Donald Trump

165. “No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What’s regretted is how real we thought it was.”

— Rumi

166. “Nothing’s real ,but all is possible if God is on my side.”

— Michael Jackson

167. “A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.”

— Bertrand Russell

168. “Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.”

— C. S. Lewis

169. “God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.”

— Joyce Meyer

170. “Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

171. “Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.”

— Og Mandino

172. “It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.”

— Ignatius of Antioch

173. “I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.”

— Leonard Cohen

174. “Real revenge is making something of yourself.”

— Gerard Way

175. “Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.”

— Henry Rollins

176. “A beach house isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.”

— Douglas Adams

177. “Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.”

— Smith Wigglesworth

178. “Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don’t pretend to be someone you’re not.”

— Tom Hiddleston

179. “Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.”

— Victor Hugo

180. “We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.”

— Thomas Merton

181. “To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

182. “Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

183. “Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.”

— Jim Rohn

184. “The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

185. “Your own mental attitude is your real boss.”

— Napoleon Hill

186. “Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.”

— D.L. Moody

187. “I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

— James Joyce

188. “Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

189. “May the Lord bless you real good.”

— Billy Graham

190. “The prayer preceding all prayers is ‘May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.’”

— C. S. Lewis

191. “Nothing is more real than nothing.”

— Samuel Beckett

192. “Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”

— Pema Chödrön

193. “In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...”

— George Orwell

194. “We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.”

— Blaise Pascal

195. “Our real reality is beyond the five senses.”

— Deepak Chopra

196. “There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.”

— Johnny Cash

197. “Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.”

— William Arthur Ward

198. “Those who dare to try what others only dream of – never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.”

— Guy Finley

199. “Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.”

— Rumi

200. “Muhammad says, ‘Love of one’s country is a part of the faith.’ But don’t take that literally! Your real ‘country’ is where you’re heading, not where you are. Don’t misread that hadith.”

— Rumi