Top 180 Hard Hitting Quotes
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151. “Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.”

— Warren Buffett

152. “The excuses we make destroy the results we deserve.”

— Robin S. Sharma

153. “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

— Abraham Lincoln

154. “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.”

— George Orwell

155. “Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.”

— Mike Ditka

156. “Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.”

— Grant Cardone

157. “People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

158. “Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!”

— Phil Heath

159. “We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”

— John F. Kennedy

160. “In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”

— Ayn Rand

161. “Frazier’s got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.”

— Muhammad Ali

162. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

— George Orwell

163. “Treating success as an option is one of the major reasons why more people don’t create it for themselves-and why most people don’t even get close to living up to their full potential.”

— Grant Cardone

164. “Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.”

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

165. “I don’t do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It’s too late for regrets. You’ve already done it, haven’t you? You’ve lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

166. “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

— Frederick Douglass

167. “If you’re lazy, don’t expect much in terms of success. You’re owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It’s earned.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

168. “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”

— George R.R. Martin

169. “If it felt good, you didn’t push hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.”

— Dean Karnazes

170. “I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”

— Babe Ruth

171. “Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

172. “I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”

— George Carlin

173. “War, what’s it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.”

— Edwin Starr

174. “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.”

— Karl Marx

175. “I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

176. “You know it’s funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.”

— Tupac Shakur

177. “When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. If you’re born in America you get a front row seat.”

— George Carlin

178. “I’m going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I’m not going to be what you want me to be.”

— Steve Biko

179. “All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.”

— Sun Tzu

180. “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”

— Frederick Douglass

181. “Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

182. “Every war is a war against children.”

— Eglantyne Jebb