Top 500 Real Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Pop life Everybody needs a thrill Pop life We all got a space 2 fill Pop life Everybody can’t be on top But life it ain’t real funky Unless it’s got that pop Dig it.”

— Prince

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

403. “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

404. “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

405. “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— James Baldwin

407. “I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That’s all. That’s the real truth.”

— Michael Jackson

408. “Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.”

— William S. Burroughs

409. “Adults are the real monsters.”

— Stephen King

410. “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

411. “Inner space is the real frontier.”

— Gloria Steinem

412. “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

413. “We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.”

— Helen Keller

414. “Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.”

— William S. Burroughs

415. “The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Rick Warren

417. “Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

418. “Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

419. “You can’t just make me different and then leave. You can’t. You can’t change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.”

— John Green

420. “Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.”

— Napoleon Hill

421. “Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.”

— Cormac McCarthy

422. “The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.”

— Thomas Merton

423. “You can’t have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.”

— Joyce Meyer

424. “If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.”

— Hermann Hesse

425. “Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

426. “Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.”

— Margaret Thatcher

427. “Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.”

— Richard Dawkins

428. “Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.”

— Rick Warren

429. “Perception is real, truth is not. I’m not fighting for money and possessions. I’m fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age – the Age of Transparency – the facts and the truth will out.”

— Imelda Marcos

430. “Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well, don’t waste your time waiting.”

— Bruce Springsteen

431. “Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

432. “The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.”

— Franz Kafka

433. “You know it’s real when you are who you think you are.”

— Drake

434. “Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended.”

— T. S. Eliot

435. “All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”

— Karl Marx

436. “A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

437. “To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.”

— Vincent van Gogh

438. “No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.”

— Napoleon Hill

439. “Real estate is at the core of almost every business, and it’s certainly at the core of most people’s wealth. In order to build your wealth and improve your business smarts, you need to know about real estate.”

— Donald Trump

440. “In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”

— Douglas Adams

441. “The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.”

— Aristotle

442. “Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment’s glance.”

— Victor Hugo

443. “The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can’t both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn’t fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.”

— C. S. Lewis

444. “The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life. The gospel of Jesus Christ is again on the earth. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true and living.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

445. “Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

446. “The real safeguard of democracy is education.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

447. “The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.”

— Marcel Proust

448. “Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.”

— Oswald J. Smith

449. “After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”

— Paulo Coelho

450. “Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.”

— Nhat Hanh