Badass Quotes

• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, Bad Ass, Interesting

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• Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war

  Sun Tzu

  War, Sweat

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  I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Life, Positive, Death

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• You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

  Clint Eastwood

  Gun, Two, People

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

  Roddy Piper

  Funny, Wrestling, Gum

  Rowdy Roddy Piper, Robert Picarello (2002). “In The Pit With Piper”, p.78, Penguin

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

  Terry Crews

  Love, Being Yourself, American Football

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, Quality, Remember

  Epistulae ad Lucilium XCIV

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• 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 them 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 at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Work, Experts

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

  Walter Payton

  Champion

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• Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

  Douglas Adams

  Philosophy, Thinking, Hitchhiking

  "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Book by Douglas Adams, 1987.

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• Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

  Confucius

  Goal, Wish, Looks

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• There's nothing more badass than being who you are.

  Darren Criss

  Soul, Who You Are

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• 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 A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

  Jill Abramson

  Littles, Dangerous

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• See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

  Laozi

  Greatness, Simplicity, Littles

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Go ahead, make my day.

  Clint Eastwood

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.209, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm a badass. I really am. When you see me hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg, I am perfectly at home and comfortable.

  Joan Baez

  Home

  "Joan Baez, rock star? Believe it". Interview with James Reed, www.latimes.com. April 27, 2017.

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