Bad Ass Quotes - Page 7

• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• We become what we think about.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• No artist tolerates reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "The Rebel" by Albert Camus, (Part 4: Rebellion and Art), 1951.

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• The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.

  Marty Neumeier

  Badass, Thinking, Design

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• A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

  Bruno Munari

  Badass, Design, Aesthetic

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• Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Believe, Shining

  "Demi Lovato's Words To Live By" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. November 22, 2013.

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• When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Fun, Might

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mad, Political, Feminism

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

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• Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Stupid

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• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

  Randy Pausch

  Life, Change, Positive

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2010). “The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living”, Hodder Paperbacks

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• Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• I got a lot of friends that come up off the strip for me. The same ones that'll come up off the hip for me.

  Drake

  Real, Humble, Lots Of Friends

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• Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, Writing, Sea

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.361, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A camel is a horse designed by committee.

  Alec Issigonis

  Horse, Design, Camels

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• You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.

  Jennifer Freeman

  Inspirational, Smart, Way

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• Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

  John Stark

  Military, Sleep, Patriotic

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• Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

  Joseph Pilates

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

  "Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology".

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• The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.18, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Money

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• Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

  George Adair

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Life is never easy for those who dream.

  Robert James Waller

  Funny, Life, Dream

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• We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.

  Sam Houston

  Children, Father, Men

  Sam Houston, Eugene Campbell Barker (1939). “The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

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• We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

  Warren Ellis

  Taken, Doors, Rivers

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