Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.”

— William Arthur Ward

352. “You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.”

— Bob Marley

353. “There is but one thing of real value – to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.”

— Marcus Aurelius

354. “The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.”

— Albert Einstein

355. “Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

356. “If we believe in magic, we’ll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we’ve suddenly made those beliefs real.”

— Tony Robbins

357. “The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.”

— C. S. Lewis

358. “It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I’d rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.”

— Chetan Bhagat

359. “If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That’s how change happens.”

— Howard Zinn

360. “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

— Cormac McCarthy

361. “We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.”

— William James

362. “The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.”

— George Orwell

363. “The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.”

— Deepak Chopra

364. “I’m not real. I’m theatre.”

— Lady Gaga

365. “The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.”

— Brian Tracy

366. “All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.”

— C. S. Lewis

367. “Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.”

— Andy Warhol

368. “The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”

— Victor Hugo

369. “Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.”

— Pope John Paul II

370. “I’m one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.”

— Steve Jobs

371. “For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world...”

— Audre Lorde

372. “Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”

— Jim Morrison

373. “Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.”

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

374. “Do not be deceived by a man’s eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people’s honour is a real man.”

— Umar

375. “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

— Ray Bradbury

376. “The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind’s problems. I believe that very much.”

— Steve Jobs

377. “A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.”

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

378. “Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

379. “Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.”

— Deepak Chopra

380. “When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.”

— John Green

381. “When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.”

— Harvey MacKay

382. “Not all the monsters have fangs.”

— Jack London

383. “I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

384. “Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.”

— Rick Warren

385. “I love Switzerland. It’s so clean and cool. We don’t get much snow where I live so I get real excited in Lausanne and Geneva. I’d like to buy a house there when I’m older and settle down. It’s all so cute that it looks like a movie set.”

— Michael Jackson

386. “The words ‘I will forgive you, but I’ll never forget what you’ve done’ never explain the real nature of forgiveness.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

387. “Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

388. “What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don’t let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.”

— D.L. Moody

389. “The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.”

— George Washington

390. “It is only in folk tales, children’s stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.”

— Noam Chomsky

391. “Our real journey in life is interior.”

— Thomas Merton

392. “The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.”

— Isabel Allende

393. “Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.”

— Thomas Sowell

394. “We think sometimes we’re only drawn to the good, but we’re actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties.”

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

395. “When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.”

— Rihanna

396. “In real life there is no such thing as the average man.”

— Aldous Huxley

397. “I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don’t think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.”

— Beth Moore

398. “But what’s real? You can’t find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything’s a lie, you can’t hurt yourself.”

— Marilyn Manson

399. “Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”

— Stephen King

400. “God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer