150+ Inspirational ‘I Don’t Care’ Quotes For Self-Motivation

Receiving pessimistic comments from people surrounding you can be heart-wrenching. However, glancing on I don’t care quotes can help you deal with the negative and judgmental moments you may face during such times.

It is essential to keep up your strong self to get going and avoid caring about these remarks. In this post, we present some ‘I don’t care quotes’ that are sure to motivate you. These quotes can also encourage you to focus on your life’s blessings rather than the negativity around you.

151 ‘I Don’t Care’ Quotes

No matter what you do, how successful you are, there will always be someone who thinks you could have done better or that you are wrong. To these nay-sayers, it is best to say “I don’t care” with these quotes.

Nonchalant ‘I Don’t Care’ Quotes

Sometimes, you need to pick yourself up, throw your head back, and stand tall even as the world around you complains and criticizes. These are some quotes that could help you.

1. “I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right”- George M. Cohan

2. “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets”- Haruki Murakami

3. “I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain’t never gonna do it any different. I don’t care who likes it and who don’t” – Buck Owens

4. “I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is” – 21 Savage

5. “You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, ‘You know what? I’m giving up, I don’t care.’ And then you go to bed and you wake up and it’s a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.” – Nicole Scherzinger

6. “Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it. You find that out really fast”- Tom Waits

7. “People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.” – Mark Zuckerberg

8. “I’ve never been cool – and I don’t care.” – Celine Dion

9. “I just don’t care if anyone doesn’t like me I wasn’t put on earth to entertain everyone.”– Oreki

10. “I just write what I think is funny. I don’t care who watches it”- Ian Hecox

11. “I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.”- Joan Rivers

12. “I don’t care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.”- Boss Tweed

13. “I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’”- Millie Bobby Brown

14. ”To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It’s one I wish I had.” – Neil Cross“I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.”- Jonathan Davis

15. “Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don’t care about other stuff.”- Louis C. K.

16. “I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t even care what happens to me.”- Lil Peep

17. “The moment you stop caring is the moment when things get better. Don’t waste your time trying to please others.”- Unknown

18. “I would love to date a chef. I’d probably get really fat, but I don’t care.”- Elizabeth Olsen

19. “I’m not heartless; I’ve just learned how to use my heart less.”- Unknown

20. “The less I care, the happier I am.”- Unknown

21. “I don’t care about motivation. I care about credibility.”- Eliot Spitzer

22. “We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.”- Lily Tomlin

23. “Sometimes you just have to stop caring, you have to turn off all emotion and feelings to protect yourself from getting hurt.”- Unknown

24. “Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.” – Jerry Seinfeld

25. “Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care.” – Unknown

26. “I don’t care what people think of me, unless they think I’m mean or something, but I don’t care if they think I’m like someone else because I know I’m not – I’m a total weirdo. I’m not selling a dream; I’m not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I’m just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.”- Sia

27. “I don’t care whether people like me or dislike me. I’m not on earth to win a popularity contest. I’m here to be the best human being I possibly can be.” – Tab Hunter

28. “My mind is more peaceful when I don’t care about others.” – Unknown

29. “I don’t care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.” – Mark Cuban

30. “I don’t care what your religion is, as long as it doesn’t chastise anybody that’s not part of it.”- Jon Gries

31. “If you want to live, stop asking permission. Do it now and regret it later.”- Unknown

32. “Standardized tests don’t care if you’re white or black, short or tall, or even the rate at which you learned the course material. At the end of the day, all it cares about is whether you know what you’re supposed to know. It can’t be cheated, bent, or bargained with.”- Steven Crowder

33. “Don’t care about the destination — just keep going towards your goals.”- Unknown

34. “I don’t care what people think. People are stupid.”- Charles Barkley

35. “My delivery can be intense, but it’s intense because I need to be heard. I know that people don’t usually listen, as it relates to constructive criticism, without getting offended. So, I speak my mind with an attitude that I don’t care if you get offended; I just want you to get the message.”- Damon Dash

36. “I really don’t care what people think of me. I’ve got my family. I’ve got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don’t go around thumping people.” – Chris Kyle

37. “When I stop caring, that’s when you should start worrying.” – Unknown

38. “I’m a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.”- Tyson Fury

39. “I don’t care about having a fancy car. I don’t have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of people have where I would need to make a $1 million a fight.” – Ben Askren

40. “Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.”- Ze Frank

41. “I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star.”- Natalie Portman

42. “Ignore those people who talk about you behind your back, that’s where they belong.”- Unknown

43. “I don’t care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.” – Sebastian Vettel

44. “I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.”- Truman Capote

45. “I don’t care if I win or lose; I know I’m going to give 110%, and I’m going to hold my head high at the end of the day.”- Roy Nelson

46. “I’m not going to say I’m cool, because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.”- Billie Eilish

47. “No one can bring you down unless you let them to.”- Joey Ann Garcia

48. “I’m not scared of anyone. I don’t care whether you are a jiu-jitsu fighter or a wrestler or a stand-up fighter: I want to put myself against you, and I want to see who is better. And if you are the guy that is going to beat me, I’m going to take that loss like a man and go back, and I’ll work on me self. That’s how I look at fighting.”- Darren Till

49. “Really, I don’t care if people think I’m too skinny. This is my body. If they don’t like it, screw it.”- Ellen Pompeo

50. “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”- Johnny Cash

51. “My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.”- Mark Zuckerberg

52. “I have reached a point in life where I feel it is no longer necessary to try & impress anyone. If they like me the way I am, good & if they don’t, it’s their loss.”- Corazon Aquino

53. “I don’t care what people think about me. When I look in the mirror, I wanna like what I see.”- Kat Von D

54. “I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don’t care that much. Really, what I’m worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?”- Christian McCaffrey

55. “I don’t care how people judge me.”- Alexandre Lacazette

56. “You come to a point in your life when you really don’t care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.”- Evel Knievel

57. “There are people who try to judge. I’m cool with that. I don’t care what nobody say – the only thing that can defeat hate is love.”- Young M.A

58. “Stop worrying about someone that isn’t worried about you.” – Mitchell Perry

59. “I don’t care what the religion is called; as far as I’m concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.”- Charley Pride

60. “I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don’t care.” – Reggie Jackson

61. “Never live your life by other people’s expectations of yourself. Whose life is it anyways?”- Unknown

62. “I don’t care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.” – Boris Kodjoe

63. “I never cared about money or fame, and I don’t care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.”- Quincy Jones

64. “You are not responsible for other people’s opinions, feelings, or perceptions of you. They own that, not you.”- Shane Parrish

65. “I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.” – Dizzy Gillespie

66. “I don’t care what others think of me. I like to be who I am.” – Unknown

67. “I don’t care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win”- Paul Walker

68. “I’m very nonchalant. I don’t care about anything.”- Rob Kardashian

69. “I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me..” – Kevin Hart

70. “I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it” – Mitski

71. “By not caring too much about what people think, I’m able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.” – Albert Ellis

72. “Oscar Wilde: ‘Do you mind if I smoke?’ Sarah Bernhardt: ‘I don’t care if you burn.”

73. “Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.” – Trevor Noah

74. “I don’t care about having money. It’s about being happy, man.” – Skrillex

75. “Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

76. “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” – C. JoyBell C

77. “So much unhappiness comes from wanting others to think we’re happy or important. We chase visible at the expense of meaningful.”- Shane Parrish

78. “Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.” – Jimmy Buffett

79. “It’s better sometimes to not care than to be too good, people will always take what they never stress to get for granted, easy come, easy go.” – Blaze Olamiday

80. “One of the greatest mental freedoms is truly not caring what anyone else thinks of you.” -Unknown

81. “Un-think. Un-learn. Un-know. Un-believe. Un-speculate. Un-seek. Un-strive. Un-fear. Lose your mind and effortlessly be.” – Brian Thompson

82. “No matter how awesome you are you won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. No worries. You’ll be many people’s double espresso.”- Unknown

83. “The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I’m going to keep not caring. – Jaden Smith

84. “You are not responsible for other people’s opinions, feelings, or perceptions of you. They own that, not you.” – Shane Parrish

85. “Don’t change who you are to impress someone, if they can’t take you for you, they aren’t worth it. Be yourself.” – Unknown

86. “Sometimes the only choice left to do is to stop caring. Make a pace and move forward no matter how it hurts because there is no reason to stay anymore.”- Nova Rosa

87. “You change the world by being yourself.” – Yoko Ono

88. “People gonna talk whether you doing good or bad.” – Rihanna

89. “Don’t change your attitude and character for anyone, the one who wants you, will not change you.” – P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

90. “I don’t believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.” – Aishwarya Rai

91. “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.” – Roy Bennett

92. “You cannot reach your destination when you always stop to listen to everyone who speaks about you on the way.” – Unknown

93. “I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I’m not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn’t know how to return the treatment.” – Malcolm X

94. “One of the best feelings in the world is when you stop caring about things that used to bother you.”- Unknown

95. “Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.” – W.C. Fields

96. “Ever loved someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want.” – Harvey Specter

97. “Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That’s freedom.”- D. Moore

98. “If you like me raise your hand if you don’t then raise your standard. ”- Unknown

99. “I’m who I’m. Your approval isn’t needed.” – Unknown

100. “You cannot reach your destination when you always stop to listen to everyone who speaks about you on the way.” – Unknown

101. “Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don’t let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.”- Roy T. Bennett

102. “Believe in yourself, and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.” – Cynthia Kersey

103. “Thank you to every person who has ever told me I can’t. You are just another reason I will.” – Manny Pacquiao

104. “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” ― Virginia Woolf

105. “My dear, I don’t give a damn.” ― Margaret Mitchell

106. “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.” ― Mae West

107. “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne

108. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”— Albert Einstein

109. “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” ― Richard P. Feynman

110. “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.” ― Tina Fey

111. “Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.” ― Cynthia Kersey

112. “I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.” ― Amy Poehler

113. “There is nothing more attractive than confidence, once she sees her own beauty, everyone else will.” ― Habeeb Akande

114. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ― Sigmund Freud The hardest thing is not caring about other people’s opinions.” – Natalia Dyer

115. “So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach”- Michael Phelps

116. “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.” – Olin Miller

117. “No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.” – Laurell K. Hamilton

118. “Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.” – Angelina Jolie

119. “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” – Coco Chanel

120. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

121. “Never dull your shine for somebody else.” — Tyra Banks

122. “Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

123. “I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.” – Richard Bach

124. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde

125. “Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”- Albert Einstein

126. “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.” – Marilyn Monroe

127. “Don’t worry about who doesn’t like you, who has more, or who’s doing what.” – Erma Bombeck

128. “There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.” – Marianne Williamson

129. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

130. “Most people just want to see you fall, that’s more reason to stand tall.” – Emma Michelle

131. “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon

132. “Haters are just confused admirers because they can’t figure out the reason why everyone loves you.” – Jeffree Star

133. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

134. “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” – Charlotte Brontë

135. “Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey

136. “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” – Lao Tzu

137. “Sometimes the best way to get someone’s attention is to stop giving them yours.” – Jeffree Star

138. “Don’t tell me I’ve changed, when in reality, I just stopped dealing with you.” – Carson Kolhoff

139. “Stop trying to change someone who doesn’t want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.” – Trent Shelton

140. “I don’t care about the consequences when I do something that my heart demands to be done.”- Unknown

141. “Sometimes, you just have to stop caring. You have to turn off all emotion and feeling to protect yourself from getting hurt.”- Unknown

142. “Sometimes, you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist!” – Jeffree Star

143. “It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.” – Shakira

Sad ‘I Don’t Care’ Quotes

Here are some sad quotes that you could relate to and inspire yourself to move on.

144. “Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.” – Unknown

145. “The easiest way to avoid getting hurt is to stop caring but not caring is the hardest thing to do.”- Unknown

146. “The day we stop crying is the day we stop caring.” – Mdiggit

147. “Sometimes you are just tired of fighting and you just don’t care what happens anymore. When life gets tough, these quotes mirror your deep exhaustion perfectly.”- Unknown

148. “Sometimes the only choice left to do is to stop caring. Make peace and move forward no matter how it hurts, because there is no reason to stay anymore.”- Unknown

149. “When I’ve had enough, I stop. I just get to the point where I don’t care.”- Unknown

150. “The difference between me and you is that I care and you don’t, and that hurts.”- Unknown

151. “Yes, I think I am like the sea. I appear calm on the surface, but there’s a lot going on within. Many a times, I may not react to certain things, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t care or I don’t have emotions.”- Atif Aslam

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