100 Baddie Quotes to Celebrate Your Individuality

By Nia Simone McLeod
Writer, Video Editor & Pop Culture Enthusiast

Published August 1, 2022

It’s time to embrace your inner baddie.

We’ve curated dozens of awesome baddie quotes to empower you during your day.

Do you consider yourself a baddie?

On social media, baddie inspiration is constantly coming at you from left to right.

Everyone from Instagram influencers to musicians posts these seemingly perfect photos of themselves.

At times, it can feel like the term “baddie” is only preserved for the rich and famous.

But, the truth is, there’s a baddie within all of us.

All it takes is adopting a badass mindset, recognizing your own beauty, and of course, taking the perfect selfie.

All of these topics are addressed in the quotes featured below.

Take a look below to see some of our favorite quotes and awaken the baddie within you.

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Inspirational baddie quotes

1. “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” – Russell Warren

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2. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath

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3. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

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4. “The question isn’t who is going to let me: it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

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5. “Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice

6. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin

7. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

8. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller

9. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

10. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

11. “Push that snooze button and you’ll end up working for someone who didn’t.” – Eric Thomas

12. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston S. Churchill

13. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs

14. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

15. “To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

16. “Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

17. “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner

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18. “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” — Malala Yousafzai

19. “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” — Madonna

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20. “Never be ashamed of how you feel.” — Demi Lovato

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21. “If you want anything done, ask a woman.” — Margaret Thatcher

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22. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart

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23. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Sally Berger

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24. “A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.” — Marjorie Kinnan

25. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” — Mary Louise Alcott

26. “The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” — Helen Keller

27. “It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.” — Byron Katie

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28. “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the ability to create, nurture, and transform.” — Diane Mariechild

29. “Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.” – Taylor Swift

30. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

31. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” — Gloria Steinem

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Baddie quotes about beauty

32. “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” – David Hume

33. “When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” – John Lennon

34. “Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are.” – Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

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35. “There’s beauty in the things we think are imperfect. That sounds very cliché, but it’s true.” — Laverne Cox

36. “She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.” — Naomi Wolf

37. “When a person has gone through the journey of finding and pursuing their most authentic self, and shares that gift, for me, that’s beautiful.” — Geena Rocero

38. “Beauty is being happy in your own skin.” – Denise Bidot

39. “I believe I’m beautiful because I’m me. I also believe that if you can find beauty in everything, you can allow that to change your mind-set, and doing so makes you a happier person.” – Philomena Kwao

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Baddie quotes about the power of a selfie

40. “Lighting is everything in order to get the ‘perfect’ selfie.” – Alexis Ren

41. “The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women have been able to control, create, and publish images of themselves.” – Petra Collins
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42. “Everybody takes at least 20, so even if you see a good selfie, it probably wasn’t the first one. So my tip is to just not take it too seriously and have fun.” – Sabrina Carpenter

43. “The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure out what they really are.” – Sherry Turkle

44. “A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You’re looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone. But also, who cares?” – Emily Ratajkowski

45. “For a selfie, it’s not about the pose, it’s about you. There’s a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.” – Nigel Barker

46. “In selfie pictures, there is no human touch; it’s all about the pose. But selfie videos have sound, actions, and emotions.” – Neha Kakkar

47. “Everyone takes a bad selfie – the first thing is to know that.” – Sabrina Carpenter

48. “A sexy selfie can be incredibly empowering – but remember that, while a Snapchat message might expire, nothing on the Internet truly disappears.” – Adwoa Aboah

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49. “I’m so pro-selfie because I think it’s a tool that allows girls to create images of their own and of themselves.” – Petra Collins

50. “I find the sneeriness about ‘selfie-culture’ quite boring – I’m excited by young people taking control of their own images and finding out for themselves how much Photoshop has done for models.” – Naomi Alderman

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Anonymous baddie quotes

51. “Throw me to the wolves and I will come back leading the pack.” – Anonymous

52. “It’s OK if you don’t like me because not everyone has good taste.” – Anonymous

53. “I won’t cry, my mascara is too expensive.” – Anonymous

54. “If you’re honestly happy, f*ck what other people think.” – Anonymous

55. “I can’t face the problem if the problem is your face babe.” – Anonymous

56. “I don’t work for the money, I make the money work for me.” – Anonymous

57. “You couldn’t handle me, even if I came with instructions.” – Anonymous

58. “I live my life in fast forward, but they haters wanna rewind me.” – Anonymous

59. “There is always a wild side to an innocent face.” – Anonymous

60. “Find me where the wild things are.” – Anonymous

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Savage baddie quotes

61. “Didn’t they tell you that I was a savage?” – Rihanna

62. “We all eat lies when our haters are hungry.” – Unknown

63. They can’t scare me if I scare them first.” – Lady Gaga

64. “And she would bow to no one.” – Unknown

65. ““Shoutout to my haters, sorry that you couldn’t phase me.” – Nicki Minaj

66. “Take me or leave me I’ll never be perfect… believe me, I’m worth it.” – Nicki Minaj

67. “Boys will be boys but girls will be women.” – Dua Lipa

68. “My pocket’s deep and they never end.” – Rihanna

69. “Life’s a climb.” – Miley Cyrus

70. “Cool kids never go far in life.” – Unknown

Baddie Quotes from Famous Personalities

71. “I really think I like who I’m becoming.” – Drake

72. “I don’t work for the money, I make the money work for me.” – Robert Kyosaki

73. “In order to Bloom, You have to be Planted. In order to grow, you have to start… you have to start somewhere! Oftentimes, we complain about what we’re wanting to do in life, but we never take the time to actually BEGIN” – Kandy Kouture Cosmetics

74. “‘Cause, darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.” – Taylor Swift

75. “They say I did something baaaadddd, but why’s it feel so goooodd.” – Taylor Swift

76. “Top 2 and I ain’t #2” – Beyoncé

77. “Get my pretty name out of your mouth.” – Billie Eilish

78. “You know I got the sauce.” – Rihanna

79. “I’m a Hot Girl, don’t try it at home.” – Megan Thee Stallion

80. “Be the change that you want to see in the world” – Gandhi

81. “I’m doing pretty good as far as geniuses go.” – Kanye West

82. “I just do me, I don’t need no permission.” — Flo Milli

83. Get into it.” — Doja Cat

84. “Glitter in the sky, glitter in my eyes.” — Dua Lipa

85. “Category is body, look at the way it’s sittin” — Megan Thee Stallion