217+ Badass Quotes About Life, Girls, Guys & Love

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!

Badass Quotes

1. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
2. “It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.” – Emiliano Zapata
3. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
4. “I don’t think of the misery, but the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank
5. “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” –Theodore Roosevelt
6. “The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.” – Plutarch
7. “See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things” – Laozi
8. “May God have mercy upon my enemies because I won’t” – General George S. Patton
9. “Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” – George Carlin
10. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn
11. “People’s opinion doesn’t matter unless you give them importance in your life.”
12. “Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.” – Amelia Earhart
13. “May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” – GeneraL George S. Patton
14. “Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
15. “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid” – Epictetus
16. “I’ll never stop caring, but if you decide to push me away, I’ll go.” – Anonymous
17. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” – Aristotle
18. “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” – Russell Warren
19. “Passion first, and everything else will fall into place.”-Holly Holm, MMA fighter
20. “I love it when someone mess with me, that means I don’t have to be nice anymore.”
21. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” –Dolly Parton
22. “The question isn’t who is going to let me: it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
23. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
24. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
25. “If you think you can’t, you never will. If you think you can, you’re half way there”
26. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
27. “Strength and growth only come through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
28. “No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.” – Peter Parker
29. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
30. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
31. “Push that snooze button and you’ll end up working for someone who didn’t.” – Eric Thomas
32. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
33. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
34. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sils
35. “I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubble gum.” – Roddy Piper
36. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
37. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
38. “Never let success get to your head, never let failure get to your heart.” – Maurice Lavelle
39. “It’s not about being superhuman, it’s about realizing that being human is super!” – Sadhguru
40. “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” – Henry Rollins
41. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
42. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush
43. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
44. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain
45. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
46. “They laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at them because they are same.” – Arthur Fleck
47. “Discipline is your best friend. It will take care of you like nothing else can.” – Jocko Willink
48. “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living” – Eckhart Tolle
49. “Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.” – Ann Bradford
50. “Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?” – Mr. Blonde, “Reservoir Dogs”
51. “I’m not here to live up to your expectations and you’re not here to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee
52. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas
53. “When I was a child I was afraid of ghosts, as I grew up I realized that people are more scarier.”
54. “Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it’s learning how to dance in the rain” – Vivian Greene
55. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide
56. “If there is nothing but what we make in this world, brothers…let us make it good.” – Beta Ray Bill
57. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
58. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
59. “Tis better to keep quiet and be thot a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” – Dr. Arthur Burns
60. “There is a source of strength that will always spring up if thou wilt always look” – Marcus Aurelius
61. “Know that it’s your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.” – Tony Robbins
62. “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” – Marilyn Monroe
63. “Consider useless opinions as a boomerang. Listen to it from one ear and let it leave from the other.”

Short Badass Quotes

1. “Be Valuable, Not Available.”
2. “I got my own back.” ― Maya Angelou
3. “Bitches get stuff done.” – Tina Fey
4. “Do or do not. There is no try” – Yoda
5. “Hunt or be hunted”- from House of Cards
6. “It takes skill to be real.” – Tupac Shakur
7. “I think, therefore I’m single.”-Liz Winston
8. “Don’t come back when you realized I’m rare”
9. “I came. I saw. I conquered.” – Julius Caesar
10. “The less you reveal the more you can wonder.”
11. “The best is the enemy of the good.” – Voltaire
12. “I’m motivated by the fear of being an average.”
13. “Choose people who lift you up.” — Michelle Obama
14. “We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
15. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
16. “Don’t look for my heart, the beasts have eaten it.”
17. “I don’t have dreams, I have goals.” – Harvey Specter
18. “Through endurance we conquer” – Ernest H. Shackleton
19. “There are no men like me. Only me.” – Jaime Lannister
20. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
21. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan
22. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
23. “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
24. “Love is my religion – I could die for it” – John Keats
25. “Shoot me again, you best pray I’m dead.” – Daryl Dixon
26. “It’s better to be a lonely lion than a popular sheep.”
27. “Make me angry and I’ll register your death certificate.”
28. “Don’t judge me by my past, I don’t live there anymore. “
29. “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Howard Ruff
30. “Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war.” – Sun Tzu
31. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
32. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Denise Brennan-Nelson
33. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” – Haruki Mirakami
34. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
35. “The greatest war is between time and patience.” –Leo Tolstoy
36. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how” – Nietzsche
37. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath
38. “Fall seven times. Stand up eight.” – Ancient Japanese Proverb
39. “Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” – Hunter S. Thompson
40. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
41. “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” – Ron Swanson
42. “Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” – Philip Sidney
43. “If you don’t like my attitude, quit talking to me.” – Anonymous
44. “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” – Yoda
45. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston
46. Tough times never last, but tough people do” – Dr. Robert Schuller
47. “The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.” – Eddie Vedder
48. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
49. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
50. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
51. “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” – Mike Tyson
52. “He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
53. “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway” – John Wayne
54. “Passion first, and everything else will fall into place.” – Holly Holm
55. “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson
56. “Stop missing people who don’t even waste a second thinking about you.”
57. “It seems the more successful I become, the more I become the bad guy.”
58. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
59. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Maya Angelou
60. “A warrior must only take care that his spirit is never broken” – Shissai
61. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde
62. “If you think money can’t buy happiness, then transfer it to my account.”
63. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa
64. “You create opportunities by performing, not complaining.” – Muriel Siebert
65. “A stubborn enough person can survive just about anything.” – Zaeed Massani
66. “Honestly, you just take a deep breath and say f*ck it.” – Johnny Knoxville
67. “Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.” – Mahatma Gandhi
68. “I think my goal is a goal, and not all my goals are pretty.” – Alex Morgan
69. “Do the most productive thing possible at every given moment” – Tom Hopkins
70. “Sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am”- Harvey Specter

Badass Quotes For Girls

1. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
2. “But where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.” – Inazo Natube
3. “It ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward.” – Rocky Balboa
4. “Only those who are willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S Elliot
5. “Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.” – Robert A. Heinlein
6. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
7. “The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
8. “There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.” –Robert Jordan
9. “He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post to fight against the enemy.” – Socrates
10. “None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.” – Rorschach
11. “Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day.” – Heraclitus
12. “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.” –Seneca
13. “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein
14. “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” – Richard Feynman
15. “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Edmund Hillary
16. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
17. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
18. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston S. Churchill
19. “Strength is the product of struggle. You must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.” – Henry Rollins
20. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
21. “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
22. “Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.” – Cullen Hightower
23. “We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” – Charles Bukowski
24. “Be so determined about your goal that even the hardest rocks on your way to success melt like candles due to fear.”
25. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
26. “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.” – Richard Bach
27. “I don’t care what you think of me! Unless you think I’m awesome – in which case, you’re right! Carry on.” – Anonymous
28. “To hold it together when everyone else would understand it if you fell apart, that’s true strength” – Miyamoto Musashi
29. “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
30. “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” – Walter Payton
31. “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
32. “Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.” – Johnny Depp
33. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
34. “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
35. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Van Gogh
36. “I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man” – Thomas Jefferson
37. “There has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free.” – Alexander the Great
38. “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

1. “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
2. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
3. “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
4. “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
5. “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
6. “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.
7. “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
8. “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” – Mahatma Gandhi
9. “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
10. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine, Badass quotes about life
11. “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
12. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
13. “Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.” – Seneca the Younger
14. “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
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.” – Miyamoto Musashi
19. “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
20. “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
21. “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
22. “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
23. “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
24. “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
25. “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.
26. “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
27. “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
28. “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
29. “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

1. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
2. “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
3. “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
4. “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
5. “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
6. “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
7. “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
8. “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
9. “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
10. “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
11. “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
12. “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
13. “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
14. “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
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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?