>> Post Awesome Pics & Quotes: Motivation/inspiration - *PART 2!!* <<

[Aggressive]

Previous thread: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...15643&page=181


Firstly a HUGE thank you to everyone who posted to the previous thread. I've never seen so many like minded miscers all get together to contribute to something like this. I have to re-open it as it was reaching the post limit.

A new post from myself in the new thread. I've not shared this one yet as it has always meant the most to me. The words have been an inspiration to myself to keep pushing almost from the very beginning. It has been by far the most motivational video I've ever seen, and its only audio. Anyway, some may like it some may not.

Incredibly motivating bodybuilding video


Use headphones for better effect



The words:

"I will persist until I succeed.

In the Orient young bulls are tested for the
fight arena in a certain manner. Each is brought to
the ring and allowed to attack a picador who pricks
them with a lance. The bravery of each bull is then
rated with care according to the number of times
he demonstrates his willingness to charge in spite
of the sting of the blade. Henceforth will I recog-
nize that each day I am tested by life in like
manner. If I persist, if I continue to try, if I
continue to charge forward, I will succeed.

I was not delivered unto this world in defeat,
nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a
sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I
am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep
with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep
and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let
them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure
is not my destiny.

The prizes of life are at the end of each journey,
not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to
know how many steps are necessary in order to
reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the
thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next
bend in the road. Never will I know how close it
lies unless I turn the corner.

Always will I take another step. If that is of no
avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth,
one step at a time is not too difficult.

I will persist until I succeed."

Also quoting some of the very last posts from the previous thread:

This motivates me to do things that I want to, but I'm scared

I saw this in this thread but It deserves to be posted

Might be a repost, if not it's worth watching.

Back from band camp!

Some of my fav from Bob Proctor

You eliminate fear through intelligent action. Analyze each of your fears and you will realize they have no foundation. You have created them in your own imagination, therefore you can eliminate them.

Denying your dreams and desires is the hardest path anyone could walk. Accepting responsibility for creating a new future also means that you must accept that you have created your present life.

You can't escape from a prison until you recognize you are in one. People who have chosen to live within the limits of their old beliefs continue to have the same experiences. It takes effort and commitment to break old patterns.

There is no reason-and no excuse-to settle for a life that makes you unhappy. If elements of your life fall short of your desires, change your current mindset. This means a shift from a victim mentality to one of responsibility and empowerment.

Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with a new awareness.

I read 'the Alchemist' yesterday. First time in my life I can honestly say I haven't been able to put a book down.

168 pages... very quick read and really good.

Will Smith talking about it. Very inspirational.

[Vechs]

Starting thread with a classic

[WeDoPullups]

whole tumblr with all kinds of motivation....all kinds

http://sweatingmyassoff.tumblr.com/

[Gingerbruh]

in.

[TheIrishBrah]

you have my sword brethren

[Rooney15]

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[CurryTech777]

worth the repost come at me

[JtotheIzzo]

innnnn

[Logan87]

IN, just about to mix preworkout

[akappa]

these always get me

[JungleJenetics]

In on the first fukcing page!

Lets bring some Arnold into this bitch.

[SteveMiller4]

In on first page of best misc thread ever

[Patrick_Spens]

William Shakespeare
Henry V speech
Once more unto the breach, dear friends

(Encouraging his troops to take the city of Harfleur in France)
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

[Logan87]

This has been my desktop background for the past couple months:



Right click > Open in new tab = 3600x3600 picture

[JKLOL]

First is pretty awesome.

[Micii]

Fitness is not about the vanity of what you see in the mirror, but the transformation of how you feel on the inside. It is a lifestyle and process that excels oneself in all theaters of life through a mind and body connection. When you are physically fit and feel in shape, everything else in life is easier.

-Greg Plitt

inn

[Celiat]

in and subbed

[itzDodge]

Just listen to it

[CornishHills]

Dumping quotes,


"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
- Wayne Gretzky*

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Unknown

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man that never does anything.
- Theodore Roosevelt

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you will be unhappy for the rest of your life.
- A. Maslow

Remember, hapiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
- Dale Carnegie

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confusius

As long as you depend on something, you can never be strongest
- MCB

Everyone knew that it was impossible to do. One day, someone who did not know showed up and did it.
- Winston Churchill

There are two rules for success:
1) Never tell people everything you know
- Unknown

You can spend hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put pieces together, justifying what could've, would've, should’ve happenned... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the **** on.
- Tupac

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.'

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Si ventus non est, remiga. If there is no wind, row.

"Critics are men who sit and watch a battle from a high place and come down to shoot the survivors." – Ernest Hemingway

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt, April 23, 1910

"You can't change the wind, but you can always adjust the sails" - Unknown Author

When life gives you the dirty end of the stick, take the other end and sharpen it.
Gen. Colin L. Powell.

"You will deal with one of two pains in your life. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The great thing is, you get to choose."

Dec.23, 1944 - "Battle of the Bulge"
An entire U.S. armored division is retreating from the Germans in the Ardennes forest when a sergeant in a tank destroyer spotted an American digging a foxhole. The GI, PFC Martin, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, looked up and asked, "Are you looking for a safe place?" "Yeah," answered the tanker.
"Well, buddy," he drawled, "Just pull your vehicle behind me...
I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bastards are going.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference. -- Calvin Coolidge

Never argue with idiots. They just drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”

"That boy is so hard on **** he could F**k up an anvil"

"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target." – Unknown

“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.” Author Unknown

"One who is already wet does not feel the rain."
-Turkish Proverb

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

When someone says: "You can't do that!"
What they really mean is: "I can't do that."

“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.” Carlos Cansteneda

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George Patton Jr

But until I’m a little older, I’ll just keep my mouth shut and my rucksack on

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it -Prefontaine

"Resolve is a breeze when one’s commitment has never been tested. It is when the fear, chaos, and stress of a crisis hits that true resolve is revealed."

No matter how hot she is, some guy, somewhere, is sick and tired of her SH*T.

A girl's attractiveness (or lack thereof) usually has NOTHING TO DO with how picky she is, one way or the other.

Life happens out of your comfort zone.

don't try too hard with a girl. If she wants you, you'll definitely know.

Choose your friends very carefully. Its often the group of people you are with that will decide an outcome of an unfavorable situation and you'd better be damn confident in your group when **** hits the fan.

For those of you who have trouble talking to women... just don't. Almost every girl you meet has done some of the most whorish stuff you can possibly imagine and this should really discount the pedastal you put her on. I remember I got my old high school crush drunk when she came home for a visit. I was still head over heels for this girl and all googley eyed everytime she was around. Well she got a little tipsy and we got talking about sex. Turns out she used to fck her ex BF up the ass with a strap on and loves tossing dudes salads...... It's pretty hard to picture her being angelic after that. I suggest you assume every woman you talk to is a whore... it works

If you regularly wish people would just leave you alone, be careful what you wish for, you just may get it permanently.

if you cant run with the big dawgs Get the Fuk out the yard

If you're trying to get in a girl's pants then start by not wearing the same pants as she is


DO THINGS TODAY THAT OTHER WON'T SO TOMORROW YOU CAN DO THINGS OTHER CAN'T
if you are on your first date with a female and she takes out her phone to text or calls someone else dump her on the spot. never look back

ALWAYS ask yourself what would be the most productive use of my time right now.

Girls are a lot like spiders, they're probably more afraid of you than you are of them. And like spiders, most of them are relatively harmless as well, unless of course you find yourself a Black Widow or something similar.

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. Dont wait around for people to change. They are constnatly showing you who they are, so dont ignore their signs. Believe it the first time

"A male lion can mate 50 times a day for three days straight...Challenge accepted."


"For those that seek perfection there can be no rest this side of the grave."

“The strong are strongest alone.”

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

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.
G.B. Shaw

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

"**** SELF PITY.... THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU!"

"It's better to fight for something than live for nothing." -Patton.

"No matter how hard it gets, I'd rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss" - Chino XL

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality" – Dante

He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
- Ross Perot

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle
- E E Cummings

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Patience revels in misfortunes.
-Lucanus

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
-Titus Maccius Plautus

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
-Leonardo Da Vinci

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
-Francis Quarles

Patience and Gentleness is Power
-Leigh Hunt

You always pass failure on the way to success.
- Mickey Rooney

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
- William Shakespeare

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
- Anne Baxter

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
- William Penn

You can never plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- Seneca

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
-Unknown

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
-Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
-Socrates

[jdcharnell]

in and subbed, will get daily motivation from said thread.

[getbig_ttt]

I highly recommend you guys listen to this guy: It's different type of motivational speech, more practical.



Edit. I know he's a member here, Ill rep him if I get a chance.

[calisthenicsm8]

the limit is 350 pages 10k posts delete this one and wait for part 1 to get to 10k.

[Ghostcode]

Subbed.

[RhinoBody]

I highly recommend you guys listen to this guy: It's different type of motivational speech, more practical.



Edit. I know he's a member here, Ill rep him if I get a chance.

BabySlayer is legit. That's actually one of the more motivational videos(audio) that I've seen. I always fall into this funk where I think I'm working hard enough because I outwork everyone else in my gym. So what? I'm not competing with THEM.

[Zachary533]

"Whether you think you can or can’t, either way you’re right."

I can persevere, I WILL be successful by my own definition.

-Self actualised
-Content, but always pushed out of comfort zone
-Many friends and clients that I can help inspire to follow their own path
-Continuing to do the things I love, regardless of money.

Make active goals, and work towards what YOU want to achieve deep down inside your subconscious.



May fulfillment be with you.

[Coolcicada]

Amazing thread.


www.********.com/bodybuildingsuccess

[MiiO]

Innn

[RyouBakua]

[S19]

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[RealityKings]

In on the first page of an epic thread.

Still my favorite inspirational video

Whether or not you win this thing, you've got to decide how
you're gonna walk out of here when it's all said and done.
Because the game is going to go on.
And there's only one rule you're going to need to know about,
there are no second chances.
There's only this moment and the next moment.
Every one of those moments is a test, that you get to take one time,
and only one time.
So if you see an opening, tear into it!
If you get a shot at victory make damn sure you take it.
Seize that moment!
That moment is a crossroads where everything you want
will collide with everything standing in your way.
You've got momentum at your back.
Fear and doubt are thundering like a freight-train straight at you.
And all you got, the only difference between making history and being history,
the only thing, the ONLY thing you can count on at any given moment, is YOU!
It's you versus "them",
you versus "no",
you versus "can't",
you versus "next year", "last year", "statistics", "excuses".
It's you versus "history".
You versus "the odds".
It's you versus "second place"
The clock is ticking.
Let see what you've got.

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Some other great ones

Life is tough, that's a given.
When you stand up, you're gonna be shoved back down.
When you're down, you're gonna be stepped on.
My advice to you doesn't come with a lot of bells and whistles.
It's no secret, you'll fall down, you'll stumble, you'll get pushed, you'll land square on your face.
But every time that happens, you get back on your feet.
You get up just as fast as you can, no matter how many times you need to do it.
Remember this, success has been and continues to be defined as getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.
If experience has taught me anything, it's that nothing is free and living ain't easy. Life is hard, real hard, incredibly hard.
You fail more often than you win, nobody is handing you anything.
It's up to you to puff up your chest, stretch your neck and overcome all the difficult, the nasty, the mean, the unfair.
You want more than you have now? PROVE IT!
You want to be the very best there is?
Get out there and earn it!
Once you decide that, you'll know where it is you want to be, and you won't stop pushing forward until you get there!
That's how winners are made.
At the end of the day, success is what we all want.
We all wanna win, and the race will be won.
There's no question about that.
So come on, get out on top, run faster, dream bigger, live better than you ever have before.
This is in you. You can do this.
Do it for yourself. Prove it to yourself!

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Here's the thing that makes life so interesting.
The theory of evolution claims only the strong shall survive.
Maybe so, maybe so.
But the theory of competition says,
just because they're the strong doesn't mean they can't get their asses kicked.
That's right.
See, what every long shot come from behind, underdog will tell ya is this,
the other guy may in fact be the favourite,
the odds may be stacked against you.
Fair enough.
But what the odds don't know is, this isn't a math test.
This is a completely different kind of test.
One where, passion, has a funny way of trumping logic.
So before you step up to the starting line,
before the whistle blows, and the clock starts ticking,
just remember out here the results don't always add up.
No matter what the stats may say,
and the experts may think,
and the commentators may have predicted.
When the race is on, all bets are off.
Don't be surprised if someone decides to flip the script,
and take a pass on yelling "Uncle".
And then suddenly as the old saying goes, "WE'VE GOT OURSELVES A GAME".

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