Lifting Quotes - Page 15

• I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Focus, Style, Trying

  Source: fabodylous.com

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Jobs, Needs, Heavy

  "Why We Need Better Rockets" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being an ambitious, driven woman or passionate woman and a passionate man? That is something that has come up a lot.

  Megan Griffiths

  Strong, Men, Differences

  8 Copy quote

• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

  Horace

  Self, Vanity, Glasses

  7 Copy quote

• Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

  David Lynch

  Going Away, Attempting, Opening

  4 Copy quote

• One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Voice, People, Enlightenment

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the origin of mountains, with the origin of mountains left out.

  James Dwight Dana

  Mountain, Causes, Theory

  4 Copy quote

• Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Father, Voice, Want

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.31, Random House

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

  John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

  Laughter, Flying High, Hands

  "High Flight". Poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., September 3, 1941.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

  J. G. Holland

  Air, Views, Soul

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.53

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.

  Frances Harper

  Women, Moving, Giving

  54 Copy quote

• And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.83, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

  Upton Sinclair

  Strange, Incredibles, Bootstraps

  Upton Sinclair (2014). “The Profits of Religion”, p.17, Trajectory Inc

  6 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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

  35 Copy quote

• Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

  Og Mandino

  Dream, Inspiration, Heart

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.68, Bantam

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Prayer, Communication, Heart

  191 Copy quote

• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

  261 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once you choose hope, anything's possible

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting

  131 Copy quote

• These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

  John Muir

  Nature, Eye, Perfect

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.817, Library of America

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beneath her cheek, his heart was thumping steadily. Definitely faster than his usual near-hibernation beat. Lifting her head, she flashed him a tight smile. “I get to you.” “Are you kidding? You own me,” he said, his voice running over her like silk.

  Jill Shalvis

  Running, Heart, Voice

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Sep 13, 2013

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier.

  C. S. Lewis

  Morning, Memories, Heart

  15 Copy quote

• My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down.

  Bob Moore

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lifting Weights

  74 Copy quote

• The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Selfishness, Heavy, Hardest

  54 Copy quote