Last Updated on August 9, 2024

Looking for quotes that will ignite a fire inside you? The following quotes will help you develop the badass mentality. These quotes are for the dreamers, builders, and entrepreneurs who want to take life by the horns.

Sometimes you just need that small nudge, a mental push if you will, to help you achieve success. Well my friend, you clicked the right search result. Here are 130+ badass quotes that will inspire and encourage you to take action. Enjoy!

 

Badass Quotes

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Van Gogh

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs

 

“Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” – Yoda

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

 

“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 create opportunities by performing, not complaining.” – Muriel Siebert

 

“The question isn’t who is going to let me: it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde

 

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

 

“I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

 

“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

“Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” – Russell Warren

 

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston S. Churchill

“Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice

 

“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Howard Ruff

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” – Richard Feynman

 

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

 

“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath

 

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein

“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

 

“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

“The best is the enemy of the good.” – Voltaire

 

“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

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

 

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti

 

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

 

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” – Henry Rollins

“Someday is not a day of the week.” – Denise Brennan-Nelson

“If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan

 

“Push that snooze button and you’ll end up working for someone who didn’t.” – Eric Thomas

“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.” – Amelia Earhart

“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.” – Eddie Vedder

“They laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at them because they are same.” – Arthur Fleck

“I’m not here to live up to your expectations and you’re not here to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee

“It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.” – Emiliano Zapata

“Tis better to keep quiet and be thot a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” – Dr. Arthur Burns

“Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” – George Carlin

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” – Charles Bukowski

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” –Dolly Parton

“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

“I got my own back.” – Maya Angelou

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“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

“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

“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” – Philip Sidney

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“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

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee

“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

“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

“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

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“It takes skill to be real.” – Tupac Shakur

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sils

“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.” – Ancient Japanese Proverb

“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb

“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

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney

“Never let success get to your head, never let failure get to your heart.” – Maurice Lavelle

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn

“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

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Passion first, and everything else will fall into place.” – Holly Holm

“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

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale

“Choose people who lift you up.” — Michelle Obama

“I think my goal is a goal, and not all my goals are pretty.” – Alex Morgan

“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

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

“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

“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.” – Michael Jordan

“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

“Bitches get stuff done.” – Tina Fey

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide

“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

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein

“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.

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.” – Ann Bradford

“Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” – Hunter S. Thompson

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

Bonus Quotes that will make you look extra Badass!

“Passion first, and everything else will fall into place.”-Holly Holm, MMA fighter

“Hunt or be hunted”- from House of Cards

“Sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am”- Harvey Specter

“Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?” – Mr. Blonde, “Reservoir Dogs”

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.” –Robert Jordan

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Maya Angelou

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson

“The greatest war is between time and patience.” –Leo Tolstoy

“I think, therefore I’m single.”-Liz Winston

“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” –Theodore Roosevelt

“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.

“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.” –Seneca

“Do the most productive thing possible at every given moment” – Tom Hopkins

19 Awesome Anonymous Quotes that You Can Use and Claim as Your Own

“Consider useless opinions as a boomerang. Listen to it from one ear and let it leave from the other.”

“If you think you can’t, you never will. If you think you can, you’re half way there”

“Be so determined about your goal that even the hardest rocks on your way to success melt like candles due to fear.”

“Stop missing people who don’t even waste a second thinking about you.”

“When I was a child I was afraid of ghosts, as I grew up I realized that people are more scarier.”

“I’m a very private person. You don’t ask, I don’t tell actually, even if you ask. MIND YOUR BUSINESS”

People’s opinion doesn’t matter unless you give them importance in your life.

“Make me angry and I’ll register your death certificate.”

“Don’t come back when you realized I’m rare”

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

“Don’t look for my heart, the beasts have eaten it.”

If you think money can’t buy happiness, then transfer it to my account.

“I love it when someone mess with me, that means I don’t have to be nice anymore.”

“It seems the more successful I become, the more I become the bad guy.”

“I’m motivated by the fear of being an average.”

“It’s better to be a lonely lion than a popular sheep.”

“Be Valuable, Not Available.”

“The less you reveal the more you can wonder.”

“Don’t judge me by my past, I don’t live there anymore. “