Last updated October 12, 2021
Are you looking for inspirational quotes to ignite your passion? The following quotes can help you get the badass mindset. These quotes are meant for builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who love to take their life by the horns.
Sometimes all it takes to achieve success is a little push, if you will. Your search was successful, friend. Here are 40 inspirational quotes to motivate you. 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’s a harsh and dangerous place. If you let it, it will beat you to the ground and keep you there for life. YouNobody, me or anybody is going to hit life as hard. 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
“YouDo you have any enemies? That’s great. 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 might last for one minute, an hour, a week, or even a year. However, eventually, the pain will go away and another will replace it. 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 sees himself, thoughts and feelings as separate from the rest. This is an optical delusion. This delusion creates a kind of prison in our minds, limiting us to our individual desires and to the affection we have for a few people closest 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
