101 Badass Quotes About Life

Perfect, just perfect!

“Son, remember when you fight to be free
To see things how they are and not how you like em to be
Cause even when the world is falling on top of me
Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy” – Immortal Technique

Nice Chris! A great list to return to again and again…

“The tragedy of life is not death itself but what dies inside of you while you live.”

“I fear not the man that has thrown 1,000 kicks one time, but the man that has thrown 1 kick 1,000 times.” –Bruce Lee

Thank you for this awesome post Chris!

Another quote from my dad, “Don’t walk in fear, but AS fear.”

you don’t know a champ when he is winning,
he shows to be a champ by the way he stands up after falling…

Bravo! Some quotes made me pause a little and reflect for a moment and then I wrote not to forget.

kindness generates kindness. (Profeta Gentileza)

Miracles happen when we go to the fight! (Sérgio Vaz)

The best way to help others is to tell them that they can think. (Dom Élder Câmara)

I mean now the opposite of what I said before. I’d rather be a metamorphosis to have that old idea unchanging about everything. (Raul Seixas)

Voiceless peace is not peace, it’s fear. Sometimes I talk about life, sometimes she
asks me: what kind of peace do I need to be happy?(O Rappa)

Dude, I like the quotes, but only 6 (!) out of 100 are by women! That has to be rectified. Here’s one to start with:

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf

Be strong when you are weak. Be brave when you are scared. .Be humble when you are victorious. Be badass every day.

I haven’t read this one yet, but just wanted to say that I am so glad you stay up in the middle of the night to write this stuff, because reading your blog in the morning is the perfect way to start my day. Can’t wait to read it!

First they ignore you.. then they make fun of you.. then they fight you.. then you WIN. – Ghandi

“We’re in hell right now gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell… one inch at a time.”
– Tony D’Amato – Any Given Sunday

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of lifespan, in effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. And I have searched myself for this possibility with a kind of horror. For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage. ~John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

Wonderful list, and unlike the other comments I have no need to add any… Thank you!

“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

comfort murders the passion of the soul, then walks grinning at the funeral “Kahil Gilbran”

Always been my favourite quote to try to live by… Great job Chris…love your blog

Awesome thing to read in the morning! Thanks for the post! Really puts your mind back on track

Chris, this is a great list of quotes. I think of great quotes supplements for the mind.

I love quote 99. and in context from the Journal of Marcus Aurelius ” He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.”

I love the quotes, but you have room for one more! (you skipped #77) One of my personal favorites is “Having a positive attitude won’t solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people along the way to be worth the effort” 🙂

“Sooner or later your life is going to flash before your eyes – make sure it’s worth watching!” – Gerard Way

“Worry is NOT preparation.”

“Never underestimate the power of simply doing the right thing.”

– Grandpa Edwards 🙂

“If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don’t care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we’re gonna be winners.” – Coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman), Hoosiers 1986

Great Blog!

Love the Churchill quote!

“Never, never, never, never give up.”

Giving up is always the easiest option, but, it’s also the least rewarding.

Nice quote collection, Chris. Keep putting out the goods.

Hey Chris!
Great, simply Great!
For your consideration-

100% of all putts short don’t go in! – Dave Marr I think but not certain.

Most things in life fall under the heading of ‘You don’t know, what you don’t know’ – unknown

If you don’t know where you’re going! Any road will take you there! – unknown

Just some I can think of at the moment.

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” -Jack London

…and #80 sure does give one pause…”“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.” – Aldous Huxley

“God’s original plan for us was to hang out in a garden with some naked vegetarians.” Keep up the good work, Chris.

“You are your own g#d@*n inventory. There’s nothing you have to do,
and nothing you can’t do. Use your inventory and work like hell!” ― General MacKenzie Hawkins,
The Road to Gandolfo

“I wish to have no connection to a ship which does not sail fast; for I intend to go into harm’s way.” – John Paul Jones

“Nothing without having comes without some kind of fight
You’ve got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.”
– Lovers in a Dangerous Time, by Barenaked Ladies

“He falls not badly who rises stronger from the fall.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I’d rather be nine people’s favorite thing than a hundred people’s ninth-favorite thing.”
– [title of show]

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” – Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

“Never put a question mark where God puts a Period” – Richard Petty

Love ’em! Bookmarked for future reference 🙂

I cheated a little bit, but this is something I truly strive to live by. Here’s a quote I first saw on Art of Manliness, run by Brett and Kate McKay:

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” – Robert Heinlein

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

I also love this quote from the Emerald Tablet. “As within, so without. As above, so below.”

“Breathe, Believe, Battle.”

Better than yesterday

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

~Rabindranath Tagore

If you search Pinterest for “old Cherokee saying” there is one about a grandson and grandfather. That. Is life changing.

What do I fear?
I fear stagnation and lack of progress
I fear never reaching my potential and being average
I fear being forgotten…the past… Yesterday’s news
I fear giving up and being passed by
I fear letting those I love down and my self down
I fear settling giving in to the “that’s just the way it is” mindset
I fear dying without leaving my mark
I fear not feeling these fears anymore and just floating along
These fears feed me. They nourish my drive.
I love my fear ..

“It is no measure of mental health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
J.Krishnamurti

Live now, we are all on borrowed time. We just don’t know how long the loan is!

“ah, fuck it” The Dude

“Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don’t fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn’t good for him.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”

-Socrates

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson

Will: He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, “Choose.”
Sean: Well, I gotta go with the belt there.
Will: I used to go with the wrench.
Sean: Why?
Will: Cause fuck him, that’ why.
Good Will Hunting

“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
-Winston Churchill

“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Invictus

You can’t swim to shore with ankers tied to your ass

The past doesnt equal the future

A man is rich who has friends

People look at things that are and say why.. i see things that are not and say why not.

Love lists like this. And I particularly love the Rocky Balboa quote. I remember the first time I watched him give that speech to his son how it hit me.

In the wake of losing the great actor, James Gandolfini, I’ll leave my comment with a couple of my favorite Tony Soprano quotes:

“There’s an old Italian saying: you f*ck up once, you lose two teeth.”

“Those who want respect, give respect.”

“A wrong decision is better than indecision.”

This is an awesome list. I found a lot of inspiration. Some time back I found an anonymous quote and I thought you might like it. “Fighting with your fist you’re strong, Fighting with your mind you’re smart, Fighting with your heart you’re invincible.

Brilliant list. Thanks for sharing x
23. Was my fav!
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” — Howard Zinn.

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
–Helen Keller

Albert Einstein – “I have not failed, I have just found 10000 ways that don’t work.”
Albert Einstein – “You never fail until you stop trying.”
Albert Einstein – “Failing isn’t bad when you learn what not to do.”
Common theme because I feel like I have dealt with it a lot
I don’t get to your blog enough but thank you for what you post…it helps sometimes way more than u know!!

“You were given a body that can stand most anything, it’s your mind you have to convince.”

“what you want to do with ease you must first do with diligence.”

“A wise man does as once what a fool does at last. Both do that same things, only at different times.”

Some awesome quotes thanks for sharing some inspirational stuff, always appreciated.

“Who are you, who do not know your history?”

“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t”
– General George S. Patton

Now that’s what I call badass.

Very nice list, Chris! Thanks for making and posting it for others to benefit from. It includes a lot of my favorite quotes.

I’ve used a few specific quotes quite extensively in my life, especially for a quick reminder to maintain course and to make the right decisions when my mind is screaming poor choices and excuses at me. I’ve come up with a few of my own as well. Here are three of my favorites:

“Don’t accept average habits. Strive for excellence and push the limits.”
“Humble yourself before the sight of GOD, lest GOD humble you before the sight of man.”
“Face the fear you fear to death and the death of fear is sure to come.”

And here are three more of my favorites, all of which I found while reading:

“Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.” … “What I’m saying is that we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!”
– Raistlin Majere (a fictional character created by Margaret Weis)

“All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.”
– Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

“People are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want it to be true; or they’re afraid it’s true. Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe its true, or because they’re afraid it might be true. Peoples’ heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”
– Zeddicus Zorander (fictional character created by Terry Goodkind)

“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.” – Paul Newman

Personal favourite
“We are the kids our parents warned us about”

A few more:
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.”
– Khalil Gibran

“Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.”
– Phillips Brooks

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”
– Vernon Howard

And my personal favorite:
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

” its hard to face a problem, if the problem is your face” -jan lucero

” Let war be waged in the house of who wants it”- Serbian proverb
“Brother against brother, brothers against the world”-unknown
Great list. Thanks!

Whether you think you can or think you cannot… you`re right -Henry Ford

While reading all these i thought of something it might not really be much of a quote but….”dont fear anybody becoz from their name anybody , you would know they are not somebody only mediocres trying to be a somebody lyk you”

Great list.

“Live like you mean, love ’til you feel it, its all that we need in our lives”

“once friend told me, instead of asking god all sorts of things just move ya ass and do them yourself” ^^

I aspire to be the kind of person,
that when my feet hit the ground in the morning,
the Devil say’, awe shit, he’s up!!!z

Excellent quotes, I love them & there are many I neaver heard about. For inspirational quotes I also recommend The Reader Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/The.Reader.Page.

Quote:: “Some people hate me for I am, others for who I am not. Then there are those who hate me for who I can become.”
-Derrick Ryan Alvarez Gerstmann (me)

People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan. – Winston Churchill

Only when you stare from the shadows of the abyss will you find your inner beast; that’s where I found mine. – Jeff Boehler

“I think, therefore I am dangerous.” – V For Vendetta.
Great quotes, man. Love it!!

Thanks for sharing! Have an amazing day.

“It’s by one’s own actions that we clearly define our existence, our reality and ultimately the outcome. Seek truth, build character, find happiness and most of all share and be grateful to those that encouraged you to never give up!”
T. Eastwood

Awesome Collection!!
This is something badass:

“Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Keep knocking me down, I’ll keep getting back up. I guarantee you’ll get tired before I do.”
Shawn Vadis

“There’s no question that the worst enemies are in your head. The only question is whether you’ll put them in their place or they’ll put you in yours.”
-Shawn Vadis

Its not until we lose everything, that we are free to do anything-fight club

I am me, i can be no one else but me
so if i am not proud of who i am
i will change into a me who i am proud off

“Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying” Probably the best quote that has an impact on my life alongside:
“Take risks. If you win, you will be happy; if you lose you will be wise.”

“It doesn’t matter how much you owe, if you are smart enough, the bank of America will pay it.”― Nena Gonzales

For by grace are ye save through faith and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God. Not of works, least any man can boast.
Ephesians 2:8,9

In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless and those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. ~ Ayn Rand

Why not go out on a limb, isn’t that where the fruit is ?

Don’t find someone you can live with, find someone you can’t live without .

■Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Marrianne Williamson

Civilize the mind. But keep the body savage

These quotes have literally saved my life. A lot of med problems and its a fight to wake up. I won’t quit. Fuck it.

From Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here:

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

It’s never to late to get off the sidelines and back in ‘the fight’. Whatever your fight happens to be.

One of my favorite quotes,

The greatest revenge in life is to live well.
Blackie Lawless

“If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon.”
-Doug Rader

Chris, it’s people like you who silently inspire so many millions that you may never know, and me being one of them, I can only thank you for the blog. If we had just another couple of you in the world, it would be so much of a better place :’)

“Physical death i do not fear, death of conscience is a sure death” – S. Jarnail Singh

Love every quote and everyones participation!!

Here’s one of my favorites I didnt see:

“Every man dies,
not every man truely lives!”
– William Wallace
(The real braveheart)

The quotes are really splendid……I enjoyed reading them. That’s what we call life in written.

“There’s nothing as badass as being yourself.”

“Don’t feel sorry for yourself.Only assholes do that.”

“The only thing we have to fear is, fear itself.” – F.D.R.

“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” – J.F.K.

“Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up. ” – Jim Valvano

“Failure breeds success.”

“Fairy Tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.” -GK Chesterton

“The trick to humor is not joy but sorrow, there is no humor in heaven” – Mark Twain

If your brain was in a knat’s ass it would rattle around like a BB in a box car.
-Bill Flynn

Sanity is a waste of creativity. For we are all insane in our own way. Some simply express it better. (That one is from me)
Health nuts are going to be so depressed. Sitting in the hospital, dying of nothing. (Not sure)

Some more.
When from the blood of battle the stone has fed. Let the heroes prevail and the blighters lie dead. As one of the blighters, I wording salute you. (Oghren – Dragon Age: Origins)
“It means what you want it to mean,” Hoid said. “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often we forget that” (Hoid – The Way of Kings)
“Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.” (Lirin – The Way of Kings)
“Expectation isn’t just about what people expect of you. It’s about what you expect of yourself.” (Shallan – Words of Radiance)
“To be of use in even a single burst of flame and sound is worth more than a lifetime of achieving nothing.” (Not sure – Alloy of Law)
I have a thousand more.

Autocorrect… it’s “I sodding salute you.”

stupid people don’t go to heaven, they go paradise

-pabs

Tell my kids more than once during their sports seasons: Every day’s a tryout.

OMG! You quoted from my all time favorite movie. #24: Verbal Kint (Keyser Soze) – The Usual Suspects!

“Sometimes you just gotta show up and shut up”

Two of my favorites:

” if you are not actively involved in getting what you want, you don’t really want it!”

” If you keep on doing what you have always done, you will keep on being what you have always been. Nothing changes unless you make it change!!”

“Pain builds character!”

“Practice does NOT make perfect.
Practice makes PERMANENT.
Only PERFECT practice makes perfect.”