Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

353. “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

354. “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

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

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

356. “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

357. “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

358. “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

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

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

— Deepak Chopra

361. “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

362. “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

363. “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

364. “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

365. “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

366. “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

367. “Not all the monsters have fangs.”

— Jack London

368. “Exploration by real people inspires us.”

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Gordon B. Hinckley

370. “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

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

— Thomas Merton

372. “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

373. “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

374. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

376. “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

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

— Isaac Asimov

378. “Real beauty is my aim.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

379. “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

380. “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

381. “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

382. “If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.”

— Gloria Steinem

383. “The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.”

— James Baldwin

384. “From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

385. “Do you know why I love God? Because Heaven is real. And one day, when we get to Heaven, we are going to have arms and legs. And we are going to run, and we are going play, and we are going to race.”

— Nick Vujicic

386. “The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.”

— Oswald Chambers

387. “Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.”

— Patrick Ness

388. “Adults are the real monsters.”

— Stephen King

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Zelda Fitzgerald

391. “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

392. “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

393. “REAL fellowship is being as committed to each other as we are to Jesus Christ.”

— Rick Warren

394. “I’m not real. I’m theatre.”

— Lady Gaga

395. “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

396. “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

397. “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

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— Victor Hugo

400. “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