There are many great ways to get yourself fired up.
You could listen to music, watch a motivational speech on YouTube, use manifestations, or do an intense workout.
Another great (and even easier) idea?
Psyche yourself up with some badass quotes.
Give yourself an ego boost right now and check out the list below.
Famous Badass Quotes
1. “There has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free.” — Alexander the Great
2. “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
3. “If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with a heart of an angel.” — Keanu Reeves
4. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” — Bruce Lee
5. “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
6. “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” — Mike Tyson
7. “Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.” — Johnny Depp
8. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” — Steve Jobs
9. “I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have a fear of failure. We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.” — Kobe Bryant
10. “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually, it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” — Lance Armstrong
11. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Benjamin Franklin
12. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
13. “To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
14. “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” — Jack Canfield
15. “The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra
16. “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
17. “A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd
18. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough.” — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
19. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
20. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.“ — C.S. Lewis
21. “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” — Michelle Obama
22. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.” — Cassandra Clare
24. “Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.” — Rae Smith
Motivational Quotes
25. “If you are a badass, you will always have the last laugh.” — Invajy
26. “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” — Edmund Hillary
27. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billy Jean King
28. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” — Mark Twain
29. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Van Gogh
30. “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.” — Benjamin Franklin
31. “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” — Yoda
32. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” — Og Mandino
33. “Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.” — Nicholas Sparks
34. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
35. “If you wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” — Toni Morrison
36. “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” — Emiliano Zapata
37. “I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubble gum.” — Roddy Piper
38. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston S. Churchill
39. “Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.” — Will Smith
40. “Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.” — Nishan Panwar
41. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” — Oscar Wilde
42. “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” — Russell Warren
Insightful Badass Quotes
43. “It’s not about being superhuman, it’s about realizing that being human is super!” — Sadhguru
44. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” — Wayne Dyer
45. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain
46. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” — Larry Winget
47. “You create opportunities by performing, not complaining.” — Muriel Siebert
48. “At the end of the day, who cares? What’s the big deal? I’m here, I’m going to try my best, and I’m going to go home, and my family’s there…Even though my whole world’s wrapped up in this, who cares?” — Shaun White
49. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” — Ben Hogan
50. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
51. “The question isn’t who is going to let me: it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand
52. “Don’t be perfect. Be you. Don’t be what you think they want you to be. Be what you know you are. Don’t look outside yourself for anything. It’s all within.” — Jackson Kiddard
53. “I am thankful for all of those who said ‘no’ to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” — Albert Einstein
54. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” — Don Zimmer
55. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” — David Livingston
56. “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.” — Richard Bach
57. “I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.” — Ray Charles
58. “Only those who are willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S Elliot
59. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” — Frank Zappa
60. “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” — Walter Payton