If you’re looking for some badass quotes about life, girls, guys, and love, look no further! In this blog post, we have compiled over 217 of the best quotes from some of the most inspiring people in history. Whether you’re looking for motivation to achieve your goals or simply need a little inspiration in your love life, these quotes will do the trick!
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Badass Quotes
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.” – Emiliano Zapata
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “I don’t think of the misery, but the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank
- “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” –Theodore Roosevelt
- “The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.” – Plutarch
- “See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things” – Laozi
- “May God have mercy upon my enemies because I won’t” – General George S. Patton
- “Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” – George Carlin
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn
- “People’s opinion doesn’t matter unless you give them importance in your life.”
- “Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.” – Amelia Earhart
- “May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” – GeneraL George S. Patton
- “Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
- “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid” – Epictetus
- “I’ll never stop caring, but if you decide to push me away, I’ll go.” – Anonymous
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” – Aristotle
- “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” – Russell Warren
- “Passion first, and everything else will fall into place.”-Holly Holm, MMA fighter
- “I love it when someone mess with me, that means I don’t have to be nice anymore.”
- “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” –Dolly Parton
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me: it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
- “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
- “If you think you can’t, you never will. If you think you can, you’re half way there”
- “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Strength and growth only come through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
- “No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.” – Peter Parker
- “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Push that snooze button and you’ll end up working for someone who didn’t.” – Eric Thomas
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sils
- “I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubble gum.” – Roddy Piper
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
- “Never let success get to your head, never let failure get to your heart.” – Maurice Lavelle
- “It’s not about being superhuman, it’s about realizing that being human is super!” – Sadhguru
- “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” – Henry Rollins
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
- “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
- “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain
- “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
- “They laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at them because they are same.” – Arthur Fleck
- “Discipline is your best friend. It will take care of you like nothing else can.” – Jocko Willink
- “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.” – Ann Bradford
- “Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?” – Mr. Blonde, “Reservoir Dogs”
- “I’m not here to live up to your expectations and you’re not here to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee
- “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas
- “When I was a child I was afraid of ghosts, as I grew up I realized that people are more scarier.”
- “Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it’s learning how to dance in the rain” – Vivian Greene
- “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide
- “If there is nothing but what we make in this world, brothers…let us make it good.” – Beta Ray Bill
- “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
- “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Tis better to keep quiet and be thot a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” – Dr. Arthur Burns
- “There is a source of strength that will always spring up if thou wilt always look” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Know that it’s your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.” – Tony Robbins
- “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “Consider useless opinions as a boomerang. Listen to it from one ear and let it leave from the other.”
Short Badass Quotes
- “Be Valuable, Not Available.”
- “I got my own back.” ― Maya Angelou
- “Bitches get stuff done.” – Tina Fey
- “Do or do not. There is no try” – Yoda
- “Hunt or be hunted”- from House of Cards
- “It takes skill to be real.” – Tupac Shakur
- “I think, therefore I’m single.”-Liz Winston
- “Don’t come back when you realized I’m rare”
- “I came. I saw. I conquered.” – Julius Caesar
- “The less you reveal the more you can wonder.”
- “The best is the enemy of the good.” – Voltaire
- “I’m motivated by the fear of being an average.”
- “Choose people who lift you up.” — Michelle Obama
- “We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
- “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
- “Don’t look for my heart, the beasts have eaten it.”
- “I don’t have dreams, I have goals.” – Harvey Specter
- “Through endurance we conquer” – Ernest H. Shackleton
- “There are no men like me. Only me.” – Jaime Lannister
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan
- “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
- “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
- “Love is my religion – I could die for it” – John Keats
- “Shoot me again, you best pray I’m dead.” – Daryl Dixon
- “It’s better to be a lonely lion than a popular sheep.”
- “Make me angry and I’ll register your death certificate.”
- “Don’t judge me by my past, I don’t live there anymore. “
- “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Howard Ruff
- “Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war.” – Sun Tzu
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Denise Brennan-Nelson
- “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” – Haruki Mirakami
- “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
- “The greatest war is between time and patience.” –Leo Tolstoy
- “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how” – Nietzsche
- “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath
- “Fall seven times. Stand up eight.” – Ancient Japanese Proverb
- “Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” – Hunter S. Thompson
- “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
- “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” – Ron Swanson
- “Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” – Philip Sidney
- “If you don’t like my attitude, quit talking to me.” – Anonymous
- “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” – Yoda
- “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston
- Tough times never last, but tough people do” – Dr. Robert Schuller
- “The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.” – Eddie Vedder
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” – Mike Tyson
- “He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway” – John Wayne
- “Passion first, and everything else will fall into place.” – Holly Holm
- “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson
- “Stop missing people who don’t even waste a second thinking about you.”
- “It seems the more successful I become, the more I become the bad guy.”
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Maya Angelou
- “A warrior must only take care that his spirit is never broken” – Shissai
- “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde
- “If you think money can’t buy happiness, then transfer it to my account.”
- “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa
- “You create opportunities by performing, not complaining.” – Muriel Siebert
- “A stubborn enough person can survive just about anything.” – Zaeed Massani
- “Honestly, you just take a deep breath and say f*ck it.” – Johnny Knoxville
- “Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “I think my goal is a goal, and not all my goals are pretty.” – Alex Morgan
- “Do the most productive thing possible at every given moment” – Tom Hopkins
- “Sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am”- Harvey Specter
Badass Quotes For Girls
- “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
- “But where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.” – Inazo Natube
- “It ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward.” – Rocky Balboa
- “Only those who are willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S Elliot
- “Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
- “The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.” –Robert Jordan
- “He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post to fight against the enemy.” – Socrates
- “None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.” – Rorschach
- “Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day.” – Heraclitus
- “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.” –Seneca
- “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein
- “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” – Richard Feynman
- “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Edmund Hillary
- “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
- “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston S. Churchill
- “Strength is the product of struggle. You must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.” – Henry Rollins
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
- “Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.” – Terry Crews
- “Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.” – Cullen Hightower
- “We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” – Charles Bukowski
- “Be so determined about your goal that even the hardest rocks on your way to success melt like candles due to fear.”
- “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
- “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.” – Richard Bach
- “I don’t care what you think of me! Unless you think I’m awesome – in which case, you’re right! Carry on.” – Anonymous
- “To hold it together when everyone else would understand it if you fell apart, that’s true strength” – Miyamoto Musashi
- “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
- “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” – Walter Payton
- “And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ― Anais Nin
- “Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.” – Johnny Depp
- “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
- “I fear not the man who practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
- “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Van Gogh
- “I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man” – Thomas Jefferson
- “There has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free.” – Alexander the Great
- “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein
Badass Quotes For Guys
- “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
- “Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.” – Rae Smith
- “It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” – Mae Jemison
- “You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend – those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig”. – Clint Eastwood
- “Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget
- “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” – Raylan Givens
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine, Badass quotes about life
- “I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.” – Ken Venturi
- “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
- “Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.” – Seneca the Younger
- “All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re right in front of us, they’re behind us… THEY CAN’T GET AWAY THIS TIME.” – Lewis B Puller
- “When something bad happens, you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you or let it strengthen you.” – Kay-Marie Fletcher
- “The edge – there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” – Hunter S. Thompson
- “A bird on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on her own wings. Always believe in yourself.” – Unknown
- “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.” – Miyamoto Musashi
- “A bird on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on her own wings. Always believe in yourself.” – Anonymous
- “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.” – Douglas Adams
- “Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day – that’s powerful.” – Jordan Peterson
- “The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
- “What is the ultimate quantification of success? For me, it’s not how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s how little time you spend doing what you hate.” – Casey Neistat
- “Solitude is one of our great superpowers… Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.” – Susan Cain
- “The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind’s flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality-without exploiting them for fun and profit.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
Badass Quotes About Life
- “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
- “When I was a child, my mother said to me, if you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Nobody’s paying attention to anyone else at all. You think everyone is, but they’re not. So take as long as you want if you’re talented. You’ll get their attention again if you have a reason to.” – B.J Novak
- “When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.” – Pablo Picasso
- “At the end of the day, who cares? What’s the big deal? I’m here, I’m going to try my best, and I’m going to go home, and my family’s there…Even though my whole world’s wrapped up in this, who cares?” – Shaun White
- “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Lao Tzu
- “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves to the ordinary.” – Cecil Beaton
- “Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.” – Confucius
- “The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.” – Steven Pressfield
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Jason Bennett
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Sarah Frances Brown
- “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” – Seneca the Younger
- “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward.” – Rocky Balboa
- “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” – Bradley Whitford
- “I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.” – Dawna Markova
- “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein
- “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Wrapping Up
As you can see, there is a lot of wisdom to be gleaned from the words of others when it comes to life, girls, guys, and love. We hope that this blog post has helped you find some inspiration and motivation for your own journey. If you are looking for more quotes about these topics, be sure to check out our other posts! What is your favorite badass quote?
