Top 180 Hard Hitting Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”

— Ronald Reagan

102. “If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”

— George Carlin

103. “We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

— Richard Dawkins

104. “If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”

— Winston Churchill

105. “Why am I dying to live if I’m just living to die.”

— Tupac Shakur

106. “Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

107. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

— Frederick Douglass

108. “I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

109. “Let me give you some advice, bastard: Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.”

— George R.R. Martin

110. “Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening.”

— James Hansen

111. “Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.”

— Grant Cardone

112. “Black man, you are on your own.”

— Steve Biko

113. “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

114. “I don’t believe in magic. I believe in hard work.”

— Richie McCaw

115. “Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?”

— George Carlin

116. “Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

117. “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”

— Christopher Hitchens

118. “I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.”

— Christopher Hitchens

119. “There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”

— Ayn Rand

120. “Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”

— Carl Sagan

121. “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

— Malala Yousafzai

122. “As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”

— Noam Chomsky

123. “Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.”

— Malcolm X

124. “Neither god nor soul can save society.”

— B.R. Ambedkar

125. “It’s not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.”

— Charlie Munger

126. “You’ve got to find a way to survive because they win when your soul dies.”

— Tupac Shakur

127. “The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.”

— Christopher Hitchens

128. “Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.”

— Ayn Rand

129. “Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.”

— George Carlin

130. “Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it’s that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.”

— Eric Thomas

131. “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”

— Ben Shapiro

132. “Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don’t sleep. I’ve got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.”

— Curtis Jackson

133. “Second place is just the first place loser.”

— Dale Earnhardt

134. “Nothing in life is promised except death.”

— Kanye West

135. “Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

136. “The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.”

— Wael Ghonim

137. “If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

138. “When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

139. “Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.”

— Solomon

140. “Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don’t want God to be there when they get there.”

— Paul Washer

141. “Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

142. “Politicians promise you heaven before an election and give you hell after.”

— Emma Goldman

143. “If I stop writing I am dead. And that’s the only way I’ll stop: dead.”

— Charles Bukowski

144. “A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”

— Mark Twain

145. “What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn’t. I’m an atheist.”

— Stephen Hawking

146. “I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can’t even swim.”

— Rickson Gracie

147. “Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.”

— Masaaki Hatsumi

148. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

— Booker T. Washington

149. “If you want to follow Jesus because He’ll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He’ll give you a better life, that’s idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!”

— Paul Washer

150. “I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.”

— George Foreman