Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

302. “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

303. “I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.”

— Mae West

304. “The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

305. “Real patriots ask questions.”

— Carl Sagan

306. “Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.”

— Henry Miller

307. “Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re real quite lucky.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— George A. Sheehan

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

— Timothy Keller

310. “This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Rick Warren

312. “You don’t need cocaine! There’s another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it’s called marathon running!”

— Robin Williams

313. “A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.”

— Marianne Williamson

314. “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.

315. “My father didn’t know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.”

— Malcolm X

316. “True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”

— George Washington

317. “Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”

— Seneca the Younger

318. “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

319. “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

320. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Marcus Aurelius

323. “Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.”

— Ansel Adams

324. “My strength comes from my abdomen. It’s the center of gravity and the source of real power.”

— Bruce Lee

325. “Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. – Jalaluddin al.”

— Rumi

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

— Swami Vivekananda

327. “The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.”

— Bruce Lee

328. “The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.”

— Tony Robbins

329. “If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you will never have real wealth based on peace of mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

330. “In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.”

— Quentin Tarantino

331. “Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.”

— Deepak Chopra

332. “Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.”

— Erin Morgenstern

333. “A real friend or mentor isn’t on your payroll.”

— Prince

334. “No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

335. “What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.”

— Oprah Winfrey

336. “The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.”

— Byron Katie

337. “Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

338. “Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.”

— Albert Schweitzer

339. “I’m a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion, and I love vintage.”

— Emma Watson

340. “The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.”

— Oswald Chambers

341. “I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That’s real beauty to me.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

342. “Exploration by real people inspires us.”

— Stephen Hawking

343. “The suffering itself is not so bad; it’s the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.”

— Allen Ginsberg

344. “Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.”

— Yvon Chouinard

345. “Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

346. “To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.”

— Michael Scott

347. “Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”

— Isaac Asimov

348. “Real beauty is my aim.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

349. “This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn’t working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

350. “Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.”

— Marianne Williamson