These swagger quotes will inspire you. Swagger is to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner or a very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive gait or manner.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging swagger quotes, swagger sayings, and swagger proverbs.
Best Swagger Quotes
- “Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‘walking.'” ~ George W. Bush
- “I have a natural swagger.” ~ Kevin Bacon
- “The best teams I’ve had had a little bit of swagger.” ~ John Calipari
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“Finally here, Imma star with the timing. My swagger is chill and my flow is reclining.” ~ Drake
- “The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.” ~ Keyshawn Johnson
- “Love me or hate me, it’s one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I’m a veteran. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I’m loved, for the exact same reasons.” ~ Kobe Bryant
- “Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided.” ~ Kurt Eichenwald
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“Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.” ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- “I’m currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it’s all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.” ~ Krysten Ritter
- “I don’t really go for the swagger thing too much.” ~ William Alfred Sergeant
- “I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don’t take on characteristics which are very alien to me.” ~ Jeremy Irons
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“I have a swagger coach that helps me and teaches me different swaggerific things to do… He has helped me with my style and just putting different pieces together and being able to layer and stuff like that.” ~ Justin Bieber
- “Men don’t traipse. We… Swagger” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “Don’t let yourself be thrown away…Continue on no matter what…Continue to make a positive effort for the good.” ~ Natalie Goldberg
- “Rocker dudes don’t have a lot of swagger.” ~ Demi Lovato
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“The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.” ~ Rudolf Arnheim
- “To be a star and stay a star, I think you’ve got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, “I can do this and you can’t stop me.” I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it’s lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.” ~ Joe Morgan
- “When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called ‘Dead End.’ The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.” ~ Aaron Carter
- “Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we’d be good together on screen.” ~ Esther Williams
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“I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.” ~ Ben Affleck
- “I thought I’d be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.” ~ Candice Accola
- “Every job I take, within minutes I’m thinking, I can’t do this. I think it’s what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It’s what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.” ~ Ray Winstone
- “The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.” ~ Timothy Keller
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“When you win, don’t swagger. When you lose, don’t sulk.” ~ Rick Warren
- “For me, I try to look at a person’s swagger and a little background on them if I already haven’t liked them as a ballplayer. All you have to do in the way I am going at it is that I don’t attack them like a typical commentator or a typical interview where I am trying to figure out what’s your statistics or how you felt about last night? Those things. My things are more lifestyle-oriented.” ~ Michael Bivins
- “Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.” ~ Claude Debussy
- “My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.” ~ Yakov Smirnoff
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“We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.” ~ William Henry Ashley
- “Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.” ~ Karl Popper
- “I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn’t that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn’t played before it’s just one word – swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that’s 90% of it.” ~ Tyler Hoechlin
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“The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.” ~ Jess Row
- “You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they’re not heads. From time to time you’re going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they’re going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.” ~ K-Maro
- “Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.” ~ Jason Whitlock
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“RG III a victim of his own swagger.” ~ Jason Whitlock
- “Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.” ~ Cam Newton
- “I tell my kids in the Academy at Newcastle to watch Henry. He plays with such a swagger, not an arrogance, and that is a great quality. He always looks so comfortable. You talk about cars going from 0 to 60 in a matter of seconds, and he is like that. He just explodes. I could sit there for hours and watch him.” ~ Peter Beardsley
- “Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness:
Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea’s brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.” ~ Everett Ruess -
“I would have to say that my style is simple, with a splash of swagger and a little sartorial as well.” ~ Victor Cruz
- “Men swagger around calling themselves “cattlemen” but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.” ~ Joel Salatin
- “Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment of the world. Girls who act from their false selves are often cynical about making the world a better place. They have given up hope. Only when they reconnect with the parts of themselves that are alive and true will they again have the energy to take on the culture and fight to save the planet.” ~ Mary Pipher
- “Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged…If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “That’s why Serena Williams is such a hero for me, because she’s got such incredible swagger, and it’s earned, and she can teach us that it is a good thing. The fact that she has been denigrated and called cocky – I mean, she’s the best in the world! I hope my work can inspire other women to have that swagger and believe that they can have it all.” ~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
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“Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.” ~ Ed McMahon
- “I don’t consider myself a person of fashion because it’s too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to.” ~ Michael K. Williams
- “For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.” ~ Lauren London
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“I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can’t be honest.” ~ Danny Dyer
- “The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.” ~ Cam Newton
- “I was excited to play Lil’ Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.” ~ Naturi Naughton
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“Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a fan of a lot of artists. You can be a fan, but at the same time, you gotta carve your own swagger and carve out your own style.” ~ Kirko Bangz
- “Any swagger is just defense. When you’re reminded so much of who you are by people – not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up – you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.” ~ Peter Dinklage
- “A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.” ~ Jeremy Collier
- “It’s an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you’re the best.” ~ Denny Hamlin
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“When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite.” ~ Ayelet Waldman
- “The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.” ~ Kehinde Wiley
- “You gotta love Rick Perry’s swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.” ~ Jeff Goodell
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“The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I’ve learned, is to fight for them.” ~ Georges St-Pierre
- “Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.” ~ Matthew Arnold
- “What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on-screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.” ~ Columbus Short
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“I think you can tell the difference between “swagger” and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.” ~ Stephanie Beatriz
- “There is a certain swagger with vampires.” ~ Charles Michael Davis
- “If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.” ~ Emilio Estevez
- “Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society – and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance – a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.” ~ Alexander McCall Smith
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“But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.” ~ Molly Crabapple
- “He had a certain air of being a handsome man which he was not, and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.” ~ Ivan Pavlov
