Top Cool Quotes for the Hip and Stylish
Our collection of cool quotes will make you a little hipper just by having read them.
People can stand out in many different ways. It may be about their work, their attitude, their style, or the way they look.
Some people are stylish in the way they interact with others. Style is an attribute or a quality of personality that attracts you to a person.
Quotes About Cool
It seems that some people are stylish and hip without even trying, while others, despite their best efforts, strive for something that is unattainable.
We’ve assembled this collection of quotations from cool people or folks who just said something incredibly interesting. Enjoy.
Top Ten Cool Quotes
1.) War is not the answer because only love can conquer hate.
Marvin Gaye
2.) Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Bruce Lee
3.) Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean
4.) Only do what your heart tells you.
Diana, Princess of Wales
5.) If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.
Leonardo DiCaprio – on Twitter
6.) Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
John Lennon
7.) Sometimes, life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Steve Jobs
8.) Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads, and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac
9.) My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning, and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
10.) I don’t really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are.
Prince
Good Being Cool Quotes
11.) Keep a cool head and a warm heart.
Mike Love
12.) Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
13.) Good words cool more than cold water.
John Ray
14.) I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.
Heath Ledger
15.) Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world except money.
Johnny Cash
16.) The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
James Dean
17.) It’s cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
Brendon Urie
Fashionable Sayings
18.) You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity; there is an art to getting through the day.
Viggo Mortensen
19.) Don’t worry if plan A fails; there are 25 more letters in the alphabet.
Unknown
20.) Once I started singing, I didn’t have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.
R. Kelly
21.) Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon
22.) I wear my cool on the inside; that’s why my hands are always so cold.
Dia Reeves
23.) I’m old enough to know better but young enough to do it anyway.
Unknown
24.) If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin Gaye
25.) There are two ways to be cool: One is to be disinterested and make it seem like you must be doing something much more interesting than everybody else if you are this disinterested. The other is to be extremely interested. You are not trying to please anyone, but you are really invested are really focused.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
26.) All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac
Hipster Insights
27.) If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.
Unknown
28.) What others think is not important. How you feel about yourself is all that matters.
Unknown
29.) On the other side of fear lies freedom.
Unknown
30.) Confidence and intelligence will never stop being beautiful.
Unknown
31.) The Earth without Art is just “Eh”
Unknown
32.) I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs
Good Quotes on Being Cool
33.) Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman
34.) Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
35.) The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
36.) Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Vanessa Hudgens
37.) Remember, happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman
38.) My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.
Ashton Eaton
39.) The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
40.) She believed she could, so she did.
Unknown
41.) Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead – but aim to do something big.
Deng Xiaoping
Hipster Sayings
42.) Make it happen – shock every one of them.
Unknown
43.) Work hard in silence; let your success be your noise.
Frank Ocean
44.) My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.
Ashton Eaton
45.) It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.
Joyce Meyer
46.) Stop worrying about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz
Worldy Wisdom Quotations
47.) Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
Avril Lavigne
48.) Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be me.
Steven Adler
49.) The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac – that’s what really sums up style for me.
Rick Owens
50.) I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect.
Jay-Z
51.) I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally, I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant
Sage Sayings and Cool Quotes
52.) Violence is my last option.
Chuck Norris
53.) I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi
54.) If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
55.) I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous, I know I’m going to have a good show.
Beyonce
56.) My personal style falls between casual cool and a meticulous slob. I’m most comfortable in jeans, but I love fashion.
Reid Scott
Too Cool For School Quotes
57.) Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.
Unknown
58.) Be brave with your life.
Unknown
59.) Sometimes it’s better to get off the merry-go-round and get on the rollercoaster instead.
Gareth Pugh
60.) Broken crayons still color.
Unknown
61.) The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
Unknown
62.) Be the person who decided to go for it.
Unknown
63.) Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.
Unknown
64.) Don’t stop until you’re proud.
Unknown
65.) A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
James Bond
66.) Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Tom Lehrer
Inspirational Cool Quotes
67.) The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
68.) Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
69.) Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
70.) Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Mark Twain
71.) The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do and then do it.
Henry Ford
72.) The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
Henry David Thoreau
73.) The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Seneca
Cool Quotes For Motivation
74.) My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou
75.) To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Dr Samuel Johnson
76.) Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
Maya Angelou
77.) Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
78.) The more man meditates upon good thoughts; the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius
79.) Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.
Zig Ziglar
80.) I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Short Cool Quotes
81.) Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
82.) Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller
83.) He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
Charles de Gaulle
84.) Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
Dali Lama
85.) Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.
Oscar Wilde
86.) Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Unknown
87.) Coffee the favorite drink of the civilized world.
Thomas Jefferson
88.) Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Babe Ruth
89.) Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.
Jamie Lyn Beatty
Funny Cool Quotes
90.) Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers
91.) A peacock that rests on his tail feathers is just another turkey.
Dolly Parton
92.) You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor instead of by the police.
Joan Rivers
93.) All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott
94.) I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis Diller
95.) Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
96.) I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven Wright
97.) I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin
98.) The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin
99.) I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade, and try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Ron White
All-Time Cool Quotes
100.) Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
101.) The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
Robert Bresson
102.) Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
103.) I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
104.) A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin
105.) People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
Winnie the Pooh
106.) If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama
107.) Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Oprah Winfrey
108.) One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
Michelle Obama
Great Cool Quotes
109.) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabel
110.) Instant gratification takes too long.
Carrie Fisher
111.) The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Will Rogers
112.) Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of a lack of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
113.) Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
Kate Hudson
114.) All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles Schulz
115.) Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.
Emma Watson
116.) Fate is just what you call it when you don’t know the name of the person screwing you over.
Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
Cool Lyrics
117.) Shake it off, shake it off.
Taylor Swift
118.) You could be the king but watch the queen conquer.
Nicki Minaj
119.) All you need is love.
The Beatles
Awesome Quotes
120.) There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.
Jennifer Aniston
121.) Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford
122.) Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
123.) Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.
Richard Jeni
124.) You can always tell a real friend: When you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
125.) Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring.
Steve Maraboli
126.) The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Paulo Coelho
127.) When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I read that one on a can of lemonade. I like to think it applies to life.
Andy Dwyer, Parks and Recreation
128.) I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
Emma Stone
129.) Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’.
Audrey Hepburn
130.) When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I read that one on a can of lemonade. I like to think it applies to life.
Andy Dwyer, Parks and Recreation
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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