Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “Real recognize real, I suppose.”

— Young Jeezy

209. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

211. “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

212. “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

213. “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

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Mary Kay Ash

218. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

220. “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

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Frank A. Clark

223. “It’s always better to be real.”

— Selena Gómez

224. “Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.”

— Denis Waitley

225. “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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Toni Morrison

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

— George Washington

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

230. “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

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

232. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Ron Paul

235. “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

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

— Chesty Puller

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— John Green

239. “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

240. “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

241. “To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is – not the quick little excitement, but the real deep, life-filling bliss.”

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Henry David Thoreau

243. “The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Hermann Hesse

245. “The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.”

— Joseph Campbell

246. “When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

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

— Robin S. Sharma

248. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

250. “In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.”

— Neal A. Maxwell