53 Short Badass Quotes for Everyone

These are the badass quotes that haters are just asking for. Wether you’re looking to respectfully flex on their ignorance or just sharing your fierce confidence with the world.

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Badass Quotes

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordana

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

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

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

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

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

“Failure Will Never Overtake Me If My Determination To Succeed Is Strong Enough.” – Og Mandino

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

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

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

“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

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

“For Every Reason, It’s Not Possible, There Are Hundreds Of People Who Have Faced The Same Circumstances And Succeeded.” – Jack Canfield

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

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

“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

“What You Lack In Talent Can Be Made Up With Desire, Hustle And Giving 110% All The Time.” – Don Zimmer

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

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

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

“You Learn More From Failure Than From Success. Don’t Let It Stop You. Failure Builds Character.” – Unknown

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

“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

“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

“When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” – Walter Payton

“You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” – C.S. Lewis

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be a badass.” – Terry Crews

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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