Real Quotes
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

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

— Ignatius of Antioch

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

— William Arthur Ward

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

208. “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

209. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Chris Rock

213. “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

214. “To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”

— Winston Churchill

215. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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217. “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

218. “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

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Frank Zappa

221. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

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

— Rumi

227. “Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Chesty Puller

229. “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”

— Milton Friedman

230. “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

231. “It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It’s real. And I meant it.”

— John Lennon

232. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”

— Albert Einstein

233. “The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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234. “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

235. “Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.”

— Ron Paul

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236. “Tell me, Do you feel the way I feel? ’Cause nothing else is real In the La La Land machine.”

— Demi Lovato

237. “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

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238. “The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.”

— Milton Friedman

239. “All the well-meaning advice in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans if we’re not even addressing the real problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

240. “In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.”

— Stephen Hawking

241. “As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

242. “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

243. “It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.”

— Douglas Adams

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

— John Green

245. “The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

246. “Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

248. “Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.”

— J. C. Ryle

249. “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

250. “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

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