100+ Badass Motivational Quotes to Fuel Your Fire & Crush Goals

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” – Brené Brown

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz

“Don’t let fear make decisions that courage should.” – Unknown

“If you’re not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill

“I don’t need easy, I just need possible.” – Alexandra Erin

“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the hero within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley

“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more.” – Swedish Proverb

“Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” – Marva Collins

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself.” – Jordan Belfort

“Work until your idols become your rivals.” – Kanye West

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell

“Hustle in silence, let success make the noise.” – Unknown

“I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy — I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” – Art Williams

“Your hustle is your legacy.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.” – Unknown

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson

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

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

“Don’t wait until everything is perfect to believe in yourself. Believe in yourself so everything can become perfect.” – Unknown

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung

“You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.” – Unknown

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” – Samuel Johnson

“If you’ve got the guts to dream it, you’ve got the guts to do it.” – Karen Salmansohn

“Own who you are—unapologetically.” – Mandy Hale

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

“You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” – C.C. Scott

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“Survival is important. Thriving is elegant.” – Maya Angelou

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Adversity introduces a person to themselves.” – Albert Einstein

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

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” – African Proverb

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” – Francis Bacon

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward.” – Benjamin Franklin (on patience)

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination.” – Napoleon Hill

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

“Let your success be so loud that it silences every doubter.” – Unknown

“Be patient. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi

“Silence is a source of great strength.” – Lao Tzu

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan

“Good things take time. Keep grinding.” – Unknown

“There is divine beauty in learning from your mistakes. Don’t beat yourself up.” – Amy B. Smith

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“Take the first step even if you can’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins

“Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise.” – Howard Schultz

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“Leap and the net will appear.” – John Burroughs

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily.” – Simon Sinek

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Where there is no vision, there is no leadership.” – John Wooden

“The best leaders have a high degree of self-awareness.” – Daniel Goleman

“I am my own hero.” – Madonna

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” – Simone Biles

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

“Depend on yourself. No one else can pull you up when you fall.” – Coco Chanel

“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.” – Jonathan Harnisch

“Autonomy is the key to mastery.” – Daniel Pink

“I don’t need anyone to save me. I’m the one who saves myself.” – Nayyirah Waheed

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” – Margaret Mead

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.” – Abraham Lincoln

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Speak up, even if your voice shakes.” – Maggie Kuhn

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” – Mexican Proverb

“I won’t let anyone walk in my mind as a slave.” – Marcus Aurelius

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” – Woodrow Wilson

“Rebellion is the true friend of progress.” – Emma Goldman

“Never obey anyone’s orders ever again.” – Criss Jami

“I am not here to fit into this world. I am here to set it on fire.” – Anaïs Nin

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“Legacy is not leaving something for people. It’s leaving something in people.” – Peter Buffett

“Make your life a masterpiece. Make each day your work of art.” – John Wooden

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso

“Leave behind something that reminds people that your soul lived.” – N.R. Hart

“You won’t find your purpose in a job description. You’ll find it in what you leave behind.” – Unknown

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Your legacy is every life you touch.” – Roy T. Bennett

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.