Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived – not always looked forward to as though the “real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

202. “When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.”

— Fred Rogers

203. “Real recognize real, I suppose.”

— Young Jeezy

204. “Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”.”

— Chesty Puller

205. “All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

206. “Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.”

— C. S. Lewis

207. “The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.”

— Warren Buffett

208. “Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.”

— Kathryn Kuhlman

209. “I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.”

— John Wayne

210. “I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

211. “I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.”

— Quincy Jones

212. “In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

213. “In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

214. “Harry Potter’s like Santa Clause: something you can’t see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.”

— Emma Watson

215. “The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

216. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach.”

— Maya Angelou

217. “Real strength entails being considerate and supportive of people’s feelings.”

— Mary Kay Ash

218. “In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

219. “It’s like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.”

— C. S. Lewis

220. “A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

221. “Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.”

— Orison Swett Marden

222. “Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”

— Frank A. Clark

223. “Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.”

— Virginia Woolf

224. “My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”

— Hermann Hesse

225. “It’s always better to be real.”

— Selena Gómez

226. “Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones.”

— Robin S. Sharma

227. “Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.”

— Napoleon Hill

228. “But remember what drives a man; real men do what they have to do to make sure their people are taken care of, clothed, housed, and reasonably sastisfied, and if they’re doing anything less than that, they’re not men.”

— Steve Harvey

229. “I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.”

— Bear Bryant

230. “Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

231. “The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

232. “Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

233. “Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.”

— George Washington

234. “Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It’s real information, but it tells you next to nothing.”

— Toni Morrison

235. “I’m a strategist, not a motivator. I’m obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.”

— Tony Robbins

236. “You’ll need to suffer to make any real art.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

237. “If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

238. “Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.”

— Plutarch

239. “If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.”

— Byron Katie

240. “If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory.”

— Chris Rock

241. “A great property manager is key to success in real estate.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

242. “The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.”

— Frank Zappa

243. “If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.”

— Eckhart Tolle

244. “Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.”

— George Orwell

245. “In real existence there is only unity.”

— Rumi

246. “Before me now there is only one real fact – Death. The truth I have been seeking – this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So – we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.”

— Bruce Lee

247. “Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.”

— Ron Paul

248. “What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.”

— Terence McKenna

249. “The truth hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.”

— John Green

250. “When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.”

— Henry David Thoreau