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16 Quotes for Rebellious Moments

10. "Someone once told me not to bite off more than I could chew. I told them I'd rather choke on greatness than nibble on mediocrity." ~ Anonymous

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16 Quotes for Rebellious Moments
Jeremy Brummel

1. "You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to." ~ Jonathan Franzen

2. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do." ~ Mark Twain

3. "When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self." ~ Brad Pitt

4. "I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." ~ Madonna

5. "Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

6. "A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it." ~ Charles Dickens

7. "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that." ~ J.K. Rowling

8. "Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it." ~ Jay-Z

9. "My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me." ~ Steve Maraboli

10. "Someone once told me not to bite off more than I could chew. I told them I'd rather choke on greatness than nibble on mediocrity." ~ Anonymous

11. "Well behaved women rarely make history." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

12. "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence." ~ Abigail Adams

13. "Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively." ~ Dalai Lama XIV

14. "The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care." ~ Hugh Macleod

15. "Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at that time in my life." ~ Marisol Nichols

16. "People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same." ~ Unknown

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