Top 100 Tucker Max Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.”

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2. “Your beliefs don’t make you a better person. Your behavior does.”

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3. “In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning.”

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4. “The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life.”

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5. “I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.”

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6. “Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.”

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7. “Fat girls aren’t real people.”

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8. “I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.”

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9. “Tell beautiful women they are smart, and smart women they are beautiful.”

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10. “One of life’s great secrets: women don’t look for handsome men, they look for men with beautiful women.”

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11. “Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.”

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12. “Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as ‘deserving’ respect; you get what you demand from people.”

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13. “The hardest lesson I’ve had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.”

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14. “I think 20th century media were about tricking people – and the beauty of the Internet is you can’t lie anymore.”

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15. “The result of my hard work is that I’m financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don’t have to answer to anybody.”

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16. “As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it’s because they’re afraid of rejection or they’re afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.”

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17. “No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.”

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18. “No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.”

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19. “Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.”

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20. “Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn’t deter you.”

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21. “It is better to ask for forgiveness then permission.”

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22. “Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.”

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23. “Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.”

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24. “That’s the beauty of alcohol. If you don’t remember it, it didn’t happen.”

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25. “I masterbate in the shower. My action figures judge me. Especially the Justice League.”

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26. “If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they’re bad people.”

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27. “If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.”

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28. “I’m sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in that club.”

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29. “I laugh at people who say things like ‘I’m a good person, I just do bad things.’ No, that’s not how it works. What you do IS who you are.”

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30. “Most people’s lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.”

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31. “A lot of people think that since I’m drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind of stupid logic is that? It’d be like if you saw Michael Jordan at a restaurant and were like, “Why aren’t you in your basketball uniform?” I leave out way more than I put in.”

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32. “You show me a truly funny girl who doesn’t have emotional issues, and I’ll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.”

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33. “The haters always scream the loudest.”

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34. “There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends.”

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35. “To my friends and people I care about, I’m a really nice guy. No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that’s not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.”

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36. “You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That’s what it’s like listening to you speak.”

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37. “You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.”

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38. “I could never kill myself. What if it doesn’t work. Then I’ll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?”

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39. “I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.”

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40. “You know that look a cop gives you when he’s so confused that he doesn’t even know how to respond? If you don’t know that look, it means you haven’t had enough fun in your life.”

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41. “If you wear Crocs on a first date.”

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42. “I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don’t even remember saying.”

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43. “The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.”

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44. “Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.”

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45. “I’ve heard 14 year old meth addicted thai prostitutes say more prescient things than the woman that was supposedly a “professor.”

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46. “I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.”

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47. “Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we’re tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn’t.”

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48. “At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.”

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49. “This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.”

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50. “I think that there’s a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there’s not being much written for them.”

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