Bad Ass Quotes - Page 11

• What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.

  Warren Ellis

  Joy, World, Mirth

  "Tweetyour16yearoldself, Batman Revelations, And Bob Schreck In Today's Twitter Report" by Brian Warmoth, www.mtv.com. November 4, 2010.

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• The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Integrity, Creativity

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• To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Dance, Mean

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• Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Real, Men

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Design is where science and art break even.

  Robin Mathews

  Art, Badass, Break Even

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• While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

  Jessica Valenti

  Falling In Love, Fun, Love Is

  Jessica Valenti (2014). “Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters”, p.62, Seal Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.

  Nicki Minaj

  Breakup, Might, Mama

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

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  George Adair

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Jennifer Freeman

  Inspirational, Smart, Way

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• Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Workout, Badass

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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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