Bodybuilding Motivation Quotes

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Margi Preus

Strength, Fall, Bodybuilding

Margi Preus (2011). “Heart of a Samurai”, p.157, Abrams

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life, Inspiring, Workout

Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength, Sports, Fitness

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My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Health, Thinking, Lunch

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The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Success, Sports, Motivation

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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

Ralph Marston

Inspirational, Fitness, Athlete

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Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger

Michael Kirby

Motivational, Determination, Bodybuilding

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique. Just put it to your personality, put it to yourself, and you develop your workout. Cause those books and things, those are other people's gimmicks and hypes. Build your own gimmick and hype, and that'll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin' it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you'll be out there in the middle of the street.

Big James Henderson

Workout, Book, Hype

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I'm not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination

Erik Fankhouser

Running, Workout, Guy

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Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

Mark Rippetoe

Motivational, Strong, Workout

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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Funny, Life

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to get into a zone. You know you're in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away 'cause they see the fire. You've got to be all business.

Mike Matarazzo

Workout, Block, Eye

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I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?

Vince Gironda

Workout, Business, Love Yourself

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I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

Henry Rollins

Strength, Running, Workout

Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.290, Villard

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Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.

Ronnie Coleman

Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Muhammad Ali

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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