Real Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

  Christina Stead

  Success, Liars, Lying

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.

  Jessica Ortner

  Hate, Self, Care

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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  It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Fitness, Yoga

  "Spiritual Wealth Management: The Abundance Bible and Prosperity Manifesto". Book by George S. Mentz (p. 114), September 1, 2012.

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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

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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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• Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.

  Sydney Banks

  Creating, Deep Thought, Thoughts Become Things

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• Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.

  Trent Shelton

  Jealousy, Fake Friends, Fake People

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013

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• Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

  Robin Williams

  Death, Philosophy, Love You

  "Robin Williams Good Will Hunting: Quotes, Wife Speech, Monologue From Sean Maguire" by Zachary Stieber, www.theepochtimes.com. August 12, 2014.

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• The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

  James Mangold

  Acting, Boundaries, Hard

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

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• A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Powerful, Taken

  Twitter post from Mar 02, 2016

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• Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, God, Prayer

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.136, Harmony

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• If we only knew the real value of a day.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Real Value, Ifs, Values

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• The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Life, Two, Important

  Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.113, Macmillan

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• The only real valuable thing is intuition.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

  Robert E. Howard

  Dream, Yesterday, Gone

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.90, Del Rey

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• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

  Anouk Aimee

  Beauty, Elderly, 50th Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Christian, Hurt

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.45, New World Library

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• To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

  A. H. Almaas

  Inspirational, Truth, Practice

  A. H. Almaas (2000). “The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.

  George Jones

  Love Is, Voice, People

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• If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

  Edward Snowden

  Acting, Belief, Ifs

  "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State". Book by Glenn Greenwald, May 13, 2014.

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• Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Strength, Humanity, Divinity

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• Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Romantic, Dream

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