Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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

403. “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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

406. “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

407. “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.

408. “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

409. “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

410. “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

411. “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

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

— Joyce Meyer

413. “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

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

— Stephen King

415. “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

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— William S. Burroughs

418. “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

419. “Inner space is the real frontier.”

— Gloria Steinem

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

— William S. Burroughs

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

— Rick Warren

422. “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

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

— Drake

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Ernest Hemingway

427. “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

428. “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

429. “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

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

— Nhat Hanh

431. “The Internet is a big distraction. It’s distracting, it’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”

— Ray Bradbury

432. “The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.”

— Thomas A. Edison

433. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

435. “Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Cormac McCarthy

437. “The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

438. “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

439. “Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.”

— Albert Camus

440. “Authentic power is the real deal. You can’t inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can’t lose it. You don’t need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.”

— Gary Zukav

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

— Margaret Thatcher

442. “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

443. “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

444. “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

445. “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

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

— Karl Marx

447. “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

448. “The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone’s problem, be aware that most people aren’t going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.”

— Jim Rohn

449. “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

450. “In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, ‘Your home is not an asset.’ Real estate agents sent me hate mail.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki