Keeping It Real Quotes

• Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.5, Best Books on

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• People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

  Trick Daddy

  Real, People, Fake

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• I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

  Demi Lovato

  Real, Worry, Trying

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• Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Compassion, Empathy

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

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• I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Real, People, Cracks

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• Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Character, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.93, Da Capo Press

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• I feel it's most important to keep it real and enjoy each moment, you know, take advantage of every opportunity life provides, because who knows what tomorrow may bring

  C. R. Johnson

  Real, Opportunity, Important

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• We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Truth, Real, Stories

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• A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can't expect them to keep it real with you. In this industry people just want to be famous and they forget how to keep it real and they forget to give credit to the people who helped them get to where they at.

  Gucci Mane

  Real, People, Giving

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• It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb. There's always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you're letting them win. And they don't deserve that. What you're doing by being yourself is you're keeping it real, and you're being really brave.

  Adam Lambert

  Bullying, Being Yourself, Real

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• I am just trying to keep it real.

  Jessie Ware

  Real, Trying

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• What is real is beyond all reach.

  Julian Green

  Real, Pathos

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• I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

  Vanilla Ice

  Real, Kids, Years

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• Keep it real by being straight forward. Don't pull no punches on people. It's better to tell somebody than just lollygag around, letting them think they're living their life the right way. Because some people don't know what the hell they're doing, they don't know if they're living the right way or making the right decisions. Some people don't know that.

  J. B. Smoove

  Real, Thinking, People

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• "Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.

  Larry Wilmore

  Real, Mean, Expression

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

  Ice T

  Real, Play, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I keeps it real nothing. Like you actors do

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Real, Actors

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• I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

  Vanilla Ice

  Real, Want, Matter

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• You cannot lose your real treasure.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Treasure, Loser

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• Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Truth, Real, Passion

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• I just kind of take every day at a time. I just know that I don't do anything that I don't want to do; I enjoy everything that I do and that's what you have to do to keep it good and keep it real.

  Chris Jericho

  Real, Want, Kind

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

  Martin Lawrence

  Mother, Real, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel a responsibility to myself and my parents and the people whose love has gotten me this far - people who were in my life before fame. That's where I get my sense of self. It's deadly for anyone to take on that role of a deity; it's not sustainable. I've got tons of flaws. Call my mother - she'll tell you! She keeps it real. Sometimes you don't want to hear the truth; she'll tell it to you out of love.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Mother, Real, Responsibility

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Knowledge, Thinking

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• So when it comes to being a role model to women, I think it's because of the way that I feel about myself, and the way that I treat myself. I am a woman, I treat myself with respect and I love myself, and I think that if I'm holding myself to a certain esteem and keeping it real with myself, then that's going to translate to people like me.

  Lizzo

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Lizzo’s Big Moment". Interview with Lea Weatherby, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 15, 2014.

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