During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it’s sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what’s in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits.
The process of quitting smoking doesn’t end with the last cigarette. It’s not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit.
It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.
There is no real force without justice.
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.
Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.
Your own mental attitude is your real boss.
There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.
If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you will never have real wealth based on peace of mind.
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man’s real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.
Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.
Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.
Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.