All Time Famous Badass Quotes

A "badass" embodies toughness, fearlessness, and resilience in adversity. They exude confidence, take risks, and stand up against injustice. Their rebellious, non-conformist nature aligns with strength, courage, and a willingness to defend themselves and others, making them formidable and inspiring figures in society.

Badass Quotes

1. “If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with a heart of an angel.”
– Keanu Reeves

2. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

3. “One day, I am gonna make the onions cry.”
– Anonymous

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

5. “Don’t be perfect. Be you. Don’t be what you think they want you to be. Be what you know you are. Don’t look outside yourself for anything. It’s all within.”
– Jackson Kiddard

6. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
– Maya Angelou

7. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough.”
– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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

9. “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.”
– Richard Bach

10. “I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”
– Shayne Mcclendon

11. “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

12. “Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”
– Bob Marley

13. “For every reason, it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.”
– Jack Canfield

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

15. “One of the lessons that i grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.”
– Michelle Obama

16. “Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”
– Johnny Depp

17. “Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.”
– Nicholas Sparks

18. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
– Steve Jobs

19. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.”
– Anonymous

20. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.”
– Don Zimmer

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

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

23. “Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
– Pope John XXIII

24. “If you wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
– Toni Morrison

25. “Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
– Denis Waitley

26. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
– Johnny Depp

27. “Only those who are willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S Elliot

28. “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
– James Joyce

29. “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

30. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

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

32. “The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
– Charles Bukowski

33. “Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness.”
– Karen Nave

34. “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

35. “To hold it together when everyone else would understand it if you fell apart, that’s true strength”
– Miyamoto Musashi

36. “Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
– Og Mandino

37. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
– Bruce Lee

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

39. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.”
– Jerome

40. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
– George Herbert

41. “To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

42. “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
– Woodrow Wilson

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

44. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
– William Gibson

45. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou

46. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

47. “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
– Edmund Hillary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

55. “Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

56. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
– Marilyn Monroe

57. “A Clear Vision, Backed By Definite Plans, Gives You A Tremendous Feeling Of Confidence And Personal Power.”
– Brian Tracy

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

59. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
– Steve Jobs

60. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
– Wayne Dyer

61. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

62. “I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
– Cassandra Clare

63. “I’d rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.”
– Emiliano Zapata

64. “I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”
– Ray Charles

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

66. “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

67. “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safe, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
– Sir Cecil Beaton

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

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

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

71. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
– Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

81. “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