Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “You’ll need to suffer to make any real art.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

252. “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

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

— Chris Rock

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

— Frank Zappa

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

259. “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

260. “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

261. “I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.”

— Kathryn Kuhlman

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

263. “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

264. “The problem with real estate is that it’s local. You have to understand the local market.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— George Bernard Shaw

266. “Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”

— Napoleon Hill

267. “The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.”

— Karl Marx

268. “School is tough sometimes, but it’s all about knowing who your real friends are.”

— Ariana Grande

269. “Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”

— Jodi Picoult

270. “You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.”

— William Faulkner

271. “All your beliefs, they’re just that. They’re nothing. They’re how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make ’em real.”

— Bill Hicks

272. “The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

273. “The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit.”

— George A. Sheehan

274. “Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you – your relationship with God.”

— Rick Warren

275. “Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.””

— Timothy Keller

276. “A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

277. “Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.”

— Jodi Picoult

278. “The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.”

— Fred Rogers

279. “No, none of us seem so very real. We’re only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

280. “It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other.”

— Tupac Shakur

281. “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

282. “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

283. “Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

284. “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

285. “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

286. “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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

288. “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

289. “In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Demi Lovato

291. “Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.”

— Swami Vivekananda

292. “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

293. “There will never be a nuclear war; there’s too much real estate involved.”

— Frank Zappa

294. “All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.”

— Pema Chödrön

295. “Conceit is a fog that envelops a man’s real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .”

— Napoleon Hill

296. “Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”

— Orhan Pamuk

297. “A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.”

— Francis Bacon

298. “The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.”

— Marianne Williamson

299. “That’s what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act.”

— Jim Morrison

300. “Ive never understood having crushes on people who you dont know in real life. I only crush on people I meet. I mean, I can appreciate that someone is good-looking, obviously, but I dont intend to fantasize about people I dont know!”

— Emma Watson