Inspiration has the power to ignite our passion, shift our perspective, and fuel our journey toward personal growth. Whether you’re facing challenges or simply seeking motivation, the right words can make all the difference. We’ve gathered a curated collection of the top 33 real inspirational quotes to uplift your spirit and encourage you to keep moving forward. Dive in and let these powerful messages remind you of the strength and potential within.
1. “ The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide eyes, holding up his sword in defense, She heated his sword and he dropped it, his expression barely changing, as if he had been expecting that. She held up her two swords to his throat, but they were two heavy, so she dropped one and held the other with both hands. "Where are the two Bayern boys kept?" The soldier shook his head. BURN HIM, prompted the fire. The excitement of burning was simmering in her, heating her up for more action.” - Shannon Hale
2. “The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe.” - P.S. Baber
3. “A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.” - Frances O'Roark Dowell
4. “Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?” - Inoue Takehiko
5. “Suffering is a part of real life lesson.” - Toba Beta
6. “Fake sUCKs!” - Toba Beta
7. “Life is difficult.” - M. Scott Peck
8. “I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.” - Sarah Dessen
9. “Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!” - C. JoyBell C.
10. “When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.” - Margery Williams Bianco
11. “The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.” - Vera Nazarian
12. “Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.” - C. JoyBell C.
13. “Was [Sisyphus] from your province?'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.''Then why tell his story?' I don't understand, and for a second I feel betrayed. Why did Ky tell me about this person and make me feel empathy for him when there's no proof that he ever lived at all?Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, ...'Even if he didn't live his story, enough of us have lived lives just like it. So it's true anyway.” - Ally Condie
14. “I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.” - Suzanne Collins
15. “The God that we commonly know may be less sinister than the true God that we don't know for sure.” - Toba Beta
16. “Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.” - Markus Zusak
17. “He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” - Jack London
18. “When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” - Margery Williams Bianco
19. “Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.” - Elias Williams
20. “Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not.” - Steven Redhead
21. “Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!!” - Anita R. Sneed-Carter
22. “The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.” - Shannon L. Alder
23. “I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.” - Criss Jami
24. “I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.” - Michael Haneke
25. “Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.” - Francesca Lia Block
26. “Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman
27. “Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open” - jay woodman
28. “(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22” - Sanford Kwinter
29. “It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.” - Gillian Flynn
30. “Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.” - Amy Neftzger
31. “We dream and fight with demons real and imagined.” - Dejan Stojanovic
32. “The Tone is the Message.” - Kevin T. McCarney
33. “It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.” - Gerard Way
