Best Broke Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I don't want to be broke. Never again. That's why I try to put those things in my songs because when I hear them and I'm saying, 'Boy, you can't go broke,' I've got to live up to that.”

“We broke in New York first. No one knew we were from L.A.”

“My 20s were crazy tough. I was broke all of the time. If I wanted to buy a coffee, I'd be terrified my card would get rejected. It was all that stress.”

“Everyone kept telling me I should go into standup, and I was like, 'They look broke and sad, I'm not sad and I like money!'”

“By the time I got to college, I was cutting hair for all my broke friends. I was a little lost with what I wanted to do with my life, so I thought, 'Maybe if I drop out and move to L.A. to do hair, that'll sound cooler than just dropping out.'”

“When you're more or less broke it makes you think, 'It's got to stop.'”

“As far as being an entertainer, I'm not. I'm just a fighter. Ilike to fight, I like to go for it and go for broke every time.”

“Yeah TJ Dillashaw, another great former champion, he just put it on him, didn't allow himself to be bullied and utilizes a lot of swift techniques and he broke Barao. He was able to TKO him twice. I hit a lot harder and I wasn't able to knock him out or TKO him. It just goes to show that the true champion Barao is.”

“Me and Iggor come from poor upbringings. We're broke, never had any money.”

“When we got signed, I lent my parents money, because they were broke.”

“A lot of executives simply told me that my sound was dated and wouldn't work, kind of telling me essentially to go away, that my music would never work in that 'bro-country' world. It broke my heart at times, but I also believed strongly in the music.”

“When I lost to Michael Watson, I cried. I thought the world was on my shoulders and I broke down. But I came back because I wanted my titles.”

“Like Donald Trump, Trudeau is in high office because of how the system groups and allocates votes. No wonder the Liberals broke their 2015 promise to reform the system and bring in proportional representation.”

“I worked so hard for so long, filming literally 20 hours a day nonstop for several months. It was so tough - it really broke me psychologically.”

“I need somebody real, real sweet. Of course, the paper gotta be there. I can't be with nobody broke.”

“I broke both legs, which is why I ended up lying in bed for three months. It was six months before I could walk on one leg.”

“I was sparring with Dan Christison, a big heavyweight. I threw a leg kick and broke my fibula. Before the Florian training camp.”

“On my first mixtape I didn't have a lot of money so a lot of my stories were about being broke.”

“I was a broke construction worker's kid.”

“Broken ribs are one of the worst injuries. I know, because one time I broke three ribs, which is a pretty rare thing. Usually you just break one, but I had the trifecta.”

“Having a title shot and then having it taken away broke me.”

“My charity lost its funding and my marriage broke down and I felt like a failure and I couldn't go on.”

“If anybody broke into my house right now, no warming up, no stretching, I would just murk them.”

“Do not slide in my DM if you broke.”

“I broke my leg playing football and cycled to the hospital.”

“I think at the start of writing it was less intense topics, and then once I broke the seal I was more comfortable writing about harder things, and going through family history.”

“When my husband and I worked as line cooks in LA, we lived in a constant state of broke and tired.”

“When I was 8 years old, I was struck by a car and broke a few ribs.”

“I was in a motorway services and I broke and had a cheese sandwich. It felt fabulous.”

“I DJ'd my first pirate station from a house I broke into in Haringey.”

“I tore both of my ACLs. I broke my right patella. I tore my left pec, all within about a 2 1/2-year span.”

“I broke ribs three different times.”

“When you're coming from outside London, you know, you better be something special if you expect people to take you seriously. I broke the mould; I made it possible.”

“I didn't just show up as a walk-on back in 1989. I've done this my whole life, and I'd tell any young trainer to start in quarter horses because you have to do everything. I broke them, rode them, wrapped them and slept with them since I was a boy.”

“Basically, it was important to break the belief that commercial filmmakers can't make realistic movies. I broke it.”

“I think 'Ratcatcher' broke even as a film, but it got a good critical response. I think that people knew that it wasn't going to be a conventional piece of work, but they were still willing to invest in it. With this material you have to be quite courageous.”

“I broke Steve McMahon's nose twice in one night.”

“The year when I left my country, there was still peace. The year after, the war broke out, a lot of people lost their homes, lost their families. When I go back 20 years later I still find people living in refugee camps. So I tried to help them find homes.”

“There's a stigma about reality shows and the people who star in them. Reality shows mean your career will end, your marriage will be cursed, you have to fight and/or throw a drink, or you're going to end up broke and a has-been when the series ends.”

“If you play professionally, you can expect to go broke at some point.”

“I remember a show in New Jersey several years ago when a big fight broke out in the crowd. I took the microphone and introduced Frank Sinatra. He wasn't there, but even the guys creating the disturbance stopped to look.”

“If you're broke and you're living on the street and you're happy, you're still winning compared to someone who is rich and depressed, because your mental wellbeing is still there.”

“Truth to be told, yes, it does feel very strange to be in the Spain setup without Xavi. Ever since I broke through for Barca and Spain he's always been around. We've always had a great relationship and he's always set an example in every way, when it comes to camaraderie, how much help he's given me and, above all, in footballing terms.”

“I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.”

“When I broke into the St Mirren team thing went pretty well for me and I managed to hit the ground running.”

“My name is Brock and it also means 'broke.' I'm going for broke - I intend to give everything away of everything I have over time.”

“When I broke into the Everton side under Roberto Martinez, I was playing in the No. 10 role, and I had never played there before, so I was getting used to that role as a first-team player.”

“I broke five vertebrae, and they had to rod my spine because I broke my sternum, too.”

“Let's say I go completely broke, I'm about to star in the next '30 for 30: Broke.'”

“I love my flops. Look at my life: my failure that broke my heart made me stronger.”

“When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there are a lot of people like me who make a bunch of money and just get so scared of it and don't know what to do with it.' I just didn't want to be 60 years old and broke.”

“First of all, how could I be broke, and I got all these companies?”

“For a lot of people, I was a below-average guy who broke through a wall.”

“You look at my fight with Holloway, I don't even tell my corner I broke my hand and I broke my jaw and I fought three rounds. That's just what I do, in my mind I'm thinking I can still win this, I can still win this. That's your thing is to never give up.”

“I was a young soldier when war broke out between Ethiopia and Eritrea.”

“Do I think John Wall has grown up? Absolutely. Do I think he was immature when he broke into the league? Absolutely.”

“Tottenham I really enjoyed the first year, and by the time I left we had almost as many points as in the season before when we broke the points record. But these are things that people don't evaluate, only I know about.”

“Generally, drama films are made with stars - I broke the rule unknowingly.”

“I broke the cycle of poverty thanks to education.”

“Well, I started trying stand-up before I joined Google, actually. And then I went broke because that's what happens when you try stand-up comedy. You're actually paying to perform.”

“In 1958, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley broke countless hearts when he moved the team known as the Boys of Summer to Los Angeles - dumping the guts and grit of Ebbets Field for the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.”

“If I would have thought like fans think, I'd be broke and brain dead and fighting everybody every weekend.”

“Melvilasam' broke a short, silent phase in my career.”

“I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.”

“That series, 'Property Brothers at Home,' broke HGTV viewing records.”

“I broke my leg and cracked my pelvis.”

“I signed as an 11-year-old for Everton. I broke into the Under-18s at the age of 14, then the reserves at 15, then I was in the first-team squad at 16.”

“When Kogi started, I was dead broke, selling tacos on the street just to survive.”

“We talk about players going broke, but we don't talk about why that is happening.”

“I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.”

“It was Sultan Qureshi, the character of 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' which brought success as a baddie, but it were the TC and teacher's roles in 'Masaan' and 'Nil Battey Sannata' that broke the villain's mould and helped me successfully explore the other shades - be it comedy, intense, or serious - surprising the audience all the time.”

“Osteoarthritis is a tough thing, brother. If my knee was broke, I would have had it fixed. But my situation is totally different. It's painful as hell is all I can say.”

“We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.”

“My heart is numb. It's not broke, it's numb. It's numb because of hard situations.”

“I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I'm a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.”

“White man get money - stay rich, kids get rich. Black man get money - it's the countdown till, 'When is this brother gonna go broke?' I'm not going broke.”

“It really broke my heart when music took a back seat when I was concentrating more on films. It was like choosing between two children.”

“I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.”

“There was tremendous pressure to take dialysis, and there were lots of tears when I broke the news to the family that I was not going to do it.”

“I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.”

“I was so in love with this boy in eighth grade. I really thought he was the one for me, and then he broke up with me because he said that I liked him more than he liked me, and I was living in N.Y. at the time, and I was on the subway just, like, truly heartbroken because when you're that age, you don't think you are ever going to recover.”

“My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.”

“I've been grinding a really long time, and I've been broke for a lot of years. I may not have looked like it because, if you're fly, you don't need a dollar - you just need charisma. But I was riding hope as currency for a very long time. I feel like now, more than ever, I'm in my purpose, and comedy is the foundation of that.”

“I don't mean to make a generalization, but I do at the same time, from what I know about people from the Midwest, it seems like their families would talk about money openly in front of them when they were kids. They'd say stuff like, 'We're broke! We're gonna lose the house!'”

“I broke into the business in the '80s, and the '80s was based on hyper-exaggerated reactions.”

“I think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.”

“I broke my wrist at summer camp playing a game called 'volleybat,' which was baseball but with a volleyball. It is as dangerous as it sounds.”

“My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents saying how she had insinuated herself into our family. They knew she would suffer when we broke away from her.”

“My parents broke many rules, so I guess thinking 'outside the box' has been slowly but surely developing in my family - one generation to the next.”

“The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.”

“I felt very comfortable working with Jr. NTR. We immediately broke the ice almost the first day. I always found him very down to earth.”

“I've been pretty broke my entire life. I'm not going to live that same life, but I'm going to keep those same principles.”

“Go for broke with what you believe and what you think is funny and what you're good at.”

“Trayvon Martin broke my heart.”

“When I left college, it broke my mom's heart, but I knew I had to be in Nashville. I knew that was the place you had to be in to become a better songwriter, and that's what I wanted to move there for and to ultimately get a record deal.”

“The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.”

“The real reason Tyron Woodley doesn't want to fight me is because the last time we were in the gym together, I broke him.”

“Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.”

“I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.”

“I have more experience than I care to have on what it feels like to be broke, confused, and frustrated when it comes to money.”