Top 656 Real Quotes

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.
John Legend
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
Jerry Seinfeld
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Confucius
The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They’re personalities.
Jayne Mansfield
If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln
I like to show my ability on the field. I’m not one to show off with words. I’m really looking forward to the chance. I’m a calm goalkeeper, and above all, I’ve got a real desire to win. When I get on the pitch, I give everything for the team, everything for the shirt.
Alisson
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
Rodney Dangerfield
Folktales are real.
Italo Calvino
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
Klaus Kinski
There is real value in sharing moments that don’t live forever.
Evan Spiegel
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
Stephen Hawking
When you are a starting Real Madrid player, you have to think big. Think of the Ballon d’Or, FIFA’s World XI.
Casemiro
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
William J. Clinton
I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn’t exist in real life. It’s a wrong title for me.
Aamir Khan
Over the years, a lot of rappers – Lil’ Wayne, Ice Cube – have used my name in their songs. I’m a real touchstone of history.
Rodney King
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of re

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
Simon Beaufoy
‘Pathological liar’ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not.
Dale Archer
I don’t like to talk hypotheticals. I deal with the real life situations. I treat every day as a blessing.
Tim Tebow
The real question is: if you knew there was a god, would you behave any differently? And if the answer is yes, then perhaps you should assume there is.
A. A. Gill
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don’t necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
Bradley Whitford
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don’t seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Emo Philips
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
Igor Stravinsky
In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Althea Gibson
At Real Madrid there is always pressure to win.
Casemiro
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
Zoltan Kodaly
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one’s reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can – who thinks they can use what you have to offer.
Eric Betzig
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake
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
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
Auguste Comte
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. Eliot
It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That’s how we leave no one behind.
Amy Klobuchar
Whoever says Real Madrid are dead is always proved wrong in the long term.
Sergio Ramos
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don’t want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
Jon Voight
I think people will be surprised to find that I’m not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I’m not a real moron.
Steve-O
As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot’s in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
Aaron Sorkin
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane Satrapi
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich Fromm
Some people would call me a workaholic. I don’t consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it’s my real hobby, OK? And, yeah, getting some play during working hours for which you are paid is the best job I can recommend for anyone around!
Andre Geim
To become a great player, you’ve got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you’ve got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you’ve got to fight to make your dreams come true.
Sergio Ramos
Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn’t love; it happens.
Katrina Kaif
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: s

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just ‘virtual reality.’
Martin Rees
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro
In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.
Liam Neeson
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it’s a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
Michael Nesmith
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It’s a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
Gary Gygax
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara De Angelis
In a nursery, if you don’t take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.
Jack Dangermond
The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
Joe Biden
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
Morgan Freeman
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I’m one of those scenarios.
Snoop Dogg
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive!
Christopher McCandless
I always keep a good manicure because these are acrylics. They’re the safest because your real nails are actually sharper than acrylics.
Eve Torres
Country music is the people’s music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
John Lennon
Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.
Richard J. Codey
It’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
Matt Damon
The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
Nas
Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Eckhart Tolle