Most Motivational Quotes

[LithiumX]

Pain is only temporary, after the pain comes success.

Who's is that?

[cotto45]

"Don't settle with being 'average', you're just as close to weak as you are to strong" - Unknown

[Miveru]

“Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.”

[Jitte]

"The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream."

[CroatiaBrah]

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place

[gallant03]

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it. -Maya Angelou

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. -Ruth E. Renkl

It's not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. -Anonymous

[Stev-O]

Really good quote if you're ever feelin down. Sylvester Stalone is the man, I don't care what you say. I'm actually thinking of getting part of this tattooed on me.

"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you're hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!"

[jbarker91]

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Roosevelt

"The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. 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."
Rollins

"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


Love these quotes and hope that one day I can get them on posters.

What are you favorites?

I absolutely love this!

[Alcastive]

"The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream."

This is so true. Who said this btw?

[Jitte]

This is so true. Who said this btw?

I heard it in a Les Brown speech.

[Jitte]

"When you look around you, you don't see anything that looks anything like success you gotta embrace the faith and belive that one day it's gonna be my day, but one day can't be your day if you give up, if you quit!

If you quit no day ever be your day!" - ET

[Mumra]

"When you look around you, you don't see anything that looks anything like success you gotta embrace the faith and belive that one day it's gonna be my day, but one day can't be your day if you give up, if you quit!

If you quit no day ever be your day!" - ET

I believe ET said, "Phone home" not all that. just sayin'

lol

[angeldimit]

"The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do!"

[angeldimit]

Got no business being a somebody. There are winners and there's everyone else. " You wanna be a winner, champ? Dream on!" I've been told this all my life, been told this is the truth. The truth ?? Here it is straight from the horse's mouth... " You ain't somebody till you stop being a nobody." You choose. Your dream, your physique, your choice. So be the somebody nobody expected you to be. Start something...

[Jitte]

It's not about a trophy, a placing or a prize. It's about setting goals and surpassing them. It's about discipline, dedication, willpower, reaching deep down and finding inner strenght that you didnt even know you had. It's about structure and putting in the work and following the plan. It's science and I'm a living experiment. It's about being better than my former "best" and proving to myself that I can achieve this. Thats why I do it and thats what it's all about!

[Legend1617]

sorry if repost



Imagine if you were blind.
Complete darkness, no colors, no views, no beauty.
Just pitch black.
If you were blind, ask yourself how badly would you want to see?
If pushing yourself to your limits would give you sight, would you do it?
If there was a cure, would you let anything stand in your way?
Would you risk the haters and the critics to see you sweat?
Do you really want to see?
Would you really care if they mocked you? Laughed at you? Pointed at you? Or bad mouthed you?
Would you be concerned about your extreme goal, or embrace extreme work?
What if you had to learn hurt, trust pain and embrace struggle?
Would you still be concerned with being realistic?
Would you still figure your odds and calculate your chances?
If you had to spend more time planning your workouts and less time planning your weekends, would it even be a tough choice?
If the cure for blindness was humility and pain, would you go for it?
If the cure for blindness was looking foolish would you risk it?
If seeing again took a fight, would you start swinging?
If the cure was doing things you can't do, would you attempt them?
If a few extra hours, a few more drops of sweat, and a little bit more blood is all it took, would you claim your sight?
Do you really want to succeed?
Then choose to be blind and do what it takes to see.
Because if you don't, then you're just blind anyway.

[vikeyvks]

great mr max

"You can dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, because dreamers always chase but never get it." --from No Regrets by Aesop Rock[/QUOTE]

[LegallyBlondee]

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us. -Whitford


People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. -George Shaw

[Doc_Detroit]

[LuNaTiC1988]

Hey, I remember this guy. 9 months sober, bumping these quotes because they mean a lot to me, helped me stay positive and strong, hopefully someone else can benefit now. Peace and Love, all.

I figure I should participate, I'm trying to kick my opiate addiction again for the 4th or 5th time now, I keep going back to it I keep choosing to fail even when the physical symptoms subside, and I'm tired of it. This thread I read every morning to get my mind in the right place to knock another day down on the right path, thanks for everybody contributing. Oh, and this isn't any type of rep beg or sympathy cry, I'm sure you can see from my stats.. I just wanted to express how I felt and that some people are really benefiting from your guys' positive attitudes.

Here is my own little compilation, all have been used before but they mean alot to me.

"Be patient and tough, some day this pain will be useful to you."


"A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."

"As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts, can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking."

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm

There are two things in life; things you have control over and things you don't, now tell me, why should you ever be scared again?

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain
not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it

We are all self-made, but only the rich will admit it.

Action without thought is a form of insanity. Thought without action is a crime - Einstein

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back

No one can tell what goes on inbetween the person you were and the person you become.
No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change..
You just come out the other side.. Or you don't

When you get what you want in this struggle for self,
And the world makes you king for a day;
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what the man has to say.

For it isn't your father, mother or wife
Whose judgement of you, you must pass.
The fellow who's verdict counts most in your life
Is the guy staring back in the glass.

He is the man you must please - never mind all the rest,
For he's with you clear up to the end.
And you have passed your most difficult and dangerous test
When the man in the glass is your friend.

You can be like another and chisel a plum
And think you're wonderful guy.
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.

You can fool the whole world, down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass.
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you've cheated the man in the glass.

''You know you've succeded only when you can't sleep, because for the first time, reality is better than your dreams''

Technology has spoiled my body, made it lazy; all it took was a simple piece of iron to undo all of that

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us.
- Western Union internal memo 1876

“Confidence is a stain they can’t wipe off…I’ve been to hell and back, I can show you vouchers.” Lil Wayne

"Until we lose ourselves, there is no hope of finding ourselves.” Henry Miller

"I never learned to count my blessings, I choose instead to dwell in my disasters… Its the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me …Well I looked my demons in the eyes, laid bare my chest, said ‘Do your best, destroy me. You see, I've been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.’"- Ray LaMontagne

You never know how strong you are...until being strong is the only choice you have.

I train to take on an army, so no one man can take me

What would you do if you knew you would not fail

"Once someone asked me, what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘Pleasure?’ I said. ‘I don't understand the question.’ I didn't do it for pleasure. I did it for pain." Lance Armstrong

“The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not act but a habit."
-Aristotle

"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred"

"Your biggest challenge isn't
someone else. It's the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs,
and the voice inside you that yells "can't", but you don't listen. You
just push harder. And then you hear that whisper "can". And you
discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you are"...

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”

"We avoid risks in life...so we can make it safely to death."

“Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety, no doubt-just absolute confidence.”
–Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there"

If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains."
— Hesperides 752.

A second spent not striving for the best in your life is a second closer to the death of your dreams.
"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Roosevelt

Every morning in Africa a Gazelle wakes up, and knows it must run faster than the fastest Lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up, and knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It does not matter whether you are a Gazelle or a Lion, when the sun comes up, you'd better start running.

[AndreaLynnLifts]

Just read through this thread. Loving all the motivational quotes!!!!! Thanks fit fam!

[ugnelakys]

Hello

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. Thomas Jefferson


Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. Woody Allen

[Jamii89]

Thomas Edison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

John Lennon

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

Vincent van Gogh

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

[LegallyBlondee]

When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world.

As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change, so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country.
But it, too, seemed immovable.

As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have none of it.

And now, as I lie on my deathbed, I suddenly realize: If I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family.
From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country, and who knows, I may have even changed the world.

-Written on the tomb of an Anglican Bishop in Westminster Abby

[MikeNice81]

http://70sbig.com/blog/2013/12/what-is-sexy/

This is a monumental point; a ****ing fat weirdo fapping onto his keyboard does not define what your sexiness is. Your friends do not provide a comparison to derive your hotness. People in your demographic group (i.e. gender and age) do not define your attractiveness. I’m not even giving you false hope in saying that your mindset determines your sexiness! There are fat people out there who think they are da bomb, but we all know they aren’t, so I’m not going to bull**** you into thinking you can look however you want yet feel like sexual god. I’m giving you an absolute, measurable way to determine your sexiness. How strong are you? How consistent is your training? How well do you eat (learn more to the right)? How well do you sleep? This is all quantifiable and can be recorded with any effort or OCD. If you’re gonna have a complex about your aesthetics, let it be a healthy one. Frisbee your weight scale out the window and tell the people that try to influence your body, clothes, or style to go **** themselves. You’ll be free; you’ll be in control. Implement Lascek’s Law, because, like me, it’s never ****ing wrong.

[ejay24]

Don't let the dear of striking out keep you from playing the game!

[SnackzTheGreat]

been reading through this thread... very motivating, some great quotes in here. a personal favorite of mine:
"Everything worth-while in this life is masked in temporary pain." - Greg Plitt

[Zachajawea7]

I don't ever skip a rep when I lift weights. I fear that one missed rep will be the difference between winning and losing tough matches.
-Jordan Burroughs

[Stallion5]

"I'll be back"
Arnold

[Mumra]

Don't let the dear of striking out keep you from playing the game!

I try not to strike "deer" when I'm driving. those things will mess up a car real fast. lol

not so srs. just giving you sh*t.