43 Harley Davidson Quotes On Success In Life
These Harley Davidson quotes will inspire you. Harley-Davidson, Inc., H-D, or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Harley Davidson quotes, Harley Davidson sayings, and Harley Davidson proverbs.
Best Harley Davidson Quotes
- “For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “Do I race motorcycles? I do. I use the word ‘race’ because, I admit, what I do on a motocross bike is different than riding a Harley down the street.” ~ Jeff Kent
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“If you don’t ride in the rain, you don’t ride.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “You don’t buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.” ~ Robert Patrick
- “When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I’ll never have time to regret it.” ~ Edward Abbey
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“Harley-Davidson,” she said. “Sweet.” ~ Steig Larsson
- “In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England states, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled “Harley College.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “I’d rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.” ~ Charlize Theron
- “At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn’t turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.” ~ Lucy Lawless
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“Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.” ~ Evel Knievel
- “I started when I was seven years old so I was on 50, 60 cc Suzuki and then I went up to a Yamaha 125 and then my sister was 16 and she was racing a Harley Davidson 750.” ~ Amy Weber
- “My life is like a Harley Ride. When I’m on my bike that’s really one of the places I feel completely at home.” ~ Brantley Gilbert
- “What do Harley-Davidson, LEGO, and Apple have in common? They’re all based on communities.” ~ Martin Lindstrom
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“The Harley’s got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.” ~ Evel Knievel
- “Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer – who started with the company while in high school has negotiated imaginative contracts with the unions representing Harley’s workers, agreeing to keep production in the U.S. in exchange for constantly reducing total labor costs through automating tasks and changing work rules. Because Harley regularly reassigns workers whose tasks have been automated to other parts of the company.” ~ James O’Toole
- “I loved comic books. I loved Miss Marvel. I talk about Harley Quinn all the time because I think playing villains is so much more fun than playing the good guy because who wouldn’t want to go to work and just be crazy?” ~ Katee Sackhoff
- “I’m not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn’t me – I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.” ~ Colin Farrell
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“One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it’s a little bit renegade.” ~ John Travolta
- “The reason I’m here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I’m a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.” ~ Dan Aykroyd
- “I’m 50-50 on glamour stuff. I’d rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.” ~ Charlize Theron
- “When I first started seeing (the show) come together, I was blown away. It is unbelievable. And to see Vince singing, and behind him girls hanging by chains, and Harleys on the stage and the pyrotechnics going it’s like, this is what I want to see in rock ‘n’ roll.” ~ Nikki Sixx
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“Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I’d never ridden Harleys.” ~ John Travolta
- “I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it’s like you ride a bike every day and someone says, ‘For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?’ You’d be like, ‘OK yeah!” ~ Cristin Milioti
- “All primitive people are frightened of owls,’ said Harley. ‘The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they’ll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,’ he added with a laugh.” ~ Francis Brett Young
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“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
- “I don’t know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.” ~ Colin Firth
- “[My hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likable bad-boy image. It says, ‘I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.'” ~ Bret Michaels , Harley Davidson quotes love
- “When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand – it looked like I had a slug on it – so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.” ~ Konnie Huq
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“I wonder if Harley-Davidson makes a unicycle” ~ Michael Hedges
- “There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.” ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
- “If ‘The Wild One’ were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bike rider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn’t have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bike riders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.” ~ Danny Lyon
- “I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.” ~ Dave Barry
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“I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this super cool feeling to it.” ~ Alicia Keys
- “The funny thing is, when a Harley-Davidson guy full of tattoos comes out with a Maltese, they’re trying to soften themselves out. When a very soft, single lady with a tailored look comes out with a Rottweiler, she’s looking for protection, for strength. Society automatically views the guy as too strong so he brings a Maltese. It’s just a natural way to balance your situation. It really depends.” ~ Cesar Millan
- “I’m a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.” ~ Francis Collins
- “I’m a big bike fan – my homies got Harleys and all kind of choppers – but to be honest I’m scared to ride motorcycles like that.” ~ Gucci Mane
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“Well, I’m a Harley Babe.” ~ Laura Schlessinger
- “McWorld is a product of a popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson’s and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.” ~ Benjamin Barber
- “I’d always thought that heavy metal – what I knew of it, anyway – was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasized about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realize at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me ‘Battery’ from Metallica’s Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation.” ~ Joel McIver
- “It really was a hell of a motorcycle,…It was arguably the first American motorcycle company, beating Harley by a year or so. Indian was the standard by which everything was gauged.” ~ Jerry Springer
