Being Real Quotes

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  Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.

  Lil Wayne

  Sorry, Real, Inspiration

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• The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Running, Volleyball

  "El Guerrouj digs deep for long-awaited gold" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2004.

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

  Tom Clancy

  Real, Memorable, Stuff

  The New York Times, July 27, 1986.

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• Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

  Pema Chodron

  Relationship, Real, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• People will always show their true selves in the end.

  Leona Lewis

  Life, Fake People, Truth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Trying

  Song: Precious, Album: Esperanza, 2008

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• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1925). “Young India”

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• I'd rather be real and hated, than fake and loved.

  Alli Simpson

  Real, Fake, Hated

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• be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Real

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fake People, Rapper, Lots Of Friends

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• Being real is what is important.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Real, Important

  FaceBook post by Gavin Rossdale from Oct 08, 2012

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

  Jane Haddam

  Real, Real Life, Take Me

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• Being offended is part of being in the real world.

  Courtney Love

  Real, World, Offended

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  Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• Acting is about being real, being honest.

  Kate Winslet

  Real, Acting, Honest

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• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Inspiration

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Fuel, Energy

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 10, 2012

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