Most Motivational Quotes

[BuryWhite]

"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?

[High4Lyf]

"It's hard to be humble when you are as great as I am" MUHAMMAD ALI

[danv027]

check the signature....fav quote ever

[Irun4fun]

check the signature....fav quote ever

my times are nearly the same as yrs... but mile is 4:58, 800 is same though...

[thall345]

here are just some of the ones i have collected over the past year... feel free to add your favorites to the list





the only place were 'success' comes before 'work' is in the dictionary

Obsessed is the word the lazy use to describe the dedicated

"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weights." Ronnie Coleman

"It's a lifestyle - train like there's no finish line."

"You focus your mind to train your body and the changes that begin to take place impact your mind as well. Dream it, believe it, and you will achieve it."

WORK NOT TO LOOK GOOD, BUT MAKE OTHERS LOOK BAD

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse."

"Be proud, but never satisfied."

"If you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog" - Magic Johnson, NBA Star

"Pain is temporary, pride is forever" - Unknown

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher & Writer

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion." - Muhammad Ali, Boxer

"Try and fail is the manner of losers; try and learn is the way of the strong." - Unknown

"Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret!" - Unknown

"Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve." - Stella Juarez Author

"Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger" - Micheal S. Kirby

"If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next encounter. This is the only way to take life - this is also 'playing' the game!" - Emily Post

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope" - Norman Cousins Author

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher, Poet, and Classical Philologist

"Fall down seven times, get up eight" -Chinese proverb

"There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Success must be felt within before it can be seen on the outside." - Unknown

"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them." - Ralph Marston, Author and Publisher of The Daily Motivator

"You have to do what others won't to achieve what others don't." - Unknown

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher & Writer

"Pain is only weakness leaving the body" - Unknown

"Good luck is the result of hard work and preparation" - Unknown

"Strength is the product of struggle" - Unknown

"The race goes not only to the swift nor the contest to the strong, but that's the way to bet your money" - Unknown

"How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?" -Jason Bishop, About Bodybuilding Reader

"Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you" - Ovid

"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground" - Unknown

"It's about mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter" -Unknown

"Tough times don't last. Tough people do." - Unknown

"We must train from the inside out. Using our strengths to attack and nullify any weaknesses. It's not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist." Vince McConnell

"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

"There are only two options regarding commitment, You're either in or your out. There's no such thing as life in between." - Anonymous

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated." -Anonymous

"It's never too late to become what you might have been". -George Elliot

"Belief triggers the power to do" -David Schwartz

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn vos Savant, Columnist

"It's about mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter" -Unknown

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne, Singer

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. - Brian Tracy, Motivational speaker

"Your body hears everything your mind says." - Naomi Judd, Singer/Songwriter

"The man who has no imagination has no wings. " - Muhammad Ali, Boxing Champion, Peace Ambassador

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." -Wayne Gretzky, Professional Hockey Player

"The harder you work, the luckier you get." -Gary Player, Golfer

"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do" - John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coach

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning form failure. - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State

"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big." - Donald Trump, Entrepreneur

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage." - Anais Nin

"Quitters never win and winners never quit " - anonymous

"To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift" Steve Prefontaine, runner

"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."- Chinese Proverb

"Things do not change. We change." - Henry David Thoreau, Author/Philosopher

Hard work is a two-way street. You get back exactly what you put in.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."

"Many people believe things happen to a reason, well I say go out and make those things happen

try and fail but dont fail to try

"You give what you give, what you dont give is lost forever, this day will never come again"

"I have found iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me. It never runs. Friends may come and go but two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength, Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, its impossible to turn back, the iron never lies to you.

"Just say to yourself... how bad do I want this? Am I working harder than the person who will be standing next to me?"

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

"Limitations are for people that have them and excuses are for people that need them." ? Unknown

[Djin]

Look at my signature.

[johnderriLLL]

nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

[AUSSIE85]

Some of these are paraphrased. Also, don't know the origins of most of them. I'm certainly not claiming to be the author of them.

" There's no pill or shake that can replace hard work"
"The weak and unwilling go on holiday to a little place called too hard"
"If it is to be, it is up to me"
" Successful people are those who do things that others are unwilling to"
" If trophies were meant to be easy to come by, everyone would get a trophy"

"Every day I look in the mirror, I make a new starting point"

"Curls get the girls"- Reffering to Bicep curls.

[johnderriLLL]

if you aint dippin you must be trippin.

[Lifterforlife10]

"If somebody beats me, its not because they outworked me."
Layne Norton

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Gagehot

" The task ahead of you is never greater than the power behind you."

First ones my favorite ATM

[Awibble]

The one in my signature.

[raysa_j]

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” William Arthur Ward

[a3ki66]

to me, this applies to all aspects of life... relationships, work, health, etc...

"you deserve what you settle for" -a friend told me that years ago... and i have never forgot it. in other words, if i settle for being fat and unhealthy, then i deserve feeling like a piece of crap.

[malik_sabri]

"Just say to yourself... how bad do I want this? Am I working harder than the person who will be standing next to me?"

This

[MoneyRespect]

Well, i made this one "the heart is stronger than muscle" lol it was when i was drunk, it makes sense in my own way.
edit:yes i know the heart is a muscle

[hufo]

"if you dream it, you can achieve it"

[ChicagoChef]

"You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny"
-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5

"Crawling is acceptable. Falling is acceptable. Puking is acceptable. Tears are acceptable. Pain is acceptable. Injury is acceptable. Quitting is unacceptable."

"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or ****ing beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."

Not sure of the origin of those last two; pretty sure I picked up them up around these boards.

[BuryWhite]

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

[DixiesFinest]

"'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart!?It is destiny' - dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget"

Physical strength is nothing without an indomitable will.

You cannot dream yourself into a Character, You must Hammer and Forge yourself one. ΣΧ

?Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth."

?Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once"

?Remember, man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return?

?Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved?
- Williams Jennings Bryan

?No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.?

?Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped?
-James Corbett

[MattP343]

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[heatlill]

I hate to lose more than I love to win. Jimmy Connors

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Eddie Rickenbacher

[Elk888]

"On the B of the bang"- Sprinting Champion Linford Christie (...when asked "At what point do you begin to run at the start of a race?")

[Spielzeug]

nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

slogan for anorexics...

[fishscale4sale]

Best motivational quote ever:



"This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it, study it, tweak it, listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?"
- Lance Armstrong

[DE.TAPER]

ok personally arnold is my favorite bodybuilder of all times... he is who i look up to and i got posters of him all over ... so this really DOES work for me... just reading his quotes helps me to have a better workout...

i thought some one out there might benefit from this so here they are ... all quotes from the good old ARNOLD ....


I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the Mr. Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Oliva and Lou Ferrigno ...
- Arnold Schwarzenegger


"Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone 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. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on." - Arnold Schwarzenegger!



I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. - Arnold Schwarzenegger!




If it bleeds, we can kill it. Arnold Schwarzenegger!



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



Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
Arnold Schwarzenegger





"Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Suppose a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all."
Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger!




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!




"I was always interested in proportion and perfection. When I was fifteen, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger




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




"As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: "I can be there.""
Author Arnold Schwarzenegger



'We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There?s really an attitude
to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be
hungry. You have to want to conquer.'



'My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy,
and move on without any kind of hesitiation at all.'


'The best activitities for your health are pumping and humping.' - 1975


'Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.' - 1975


'Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each
time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day..." - 1979


'Stay hungry, stay healthy, ba a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go
beyond limitations.' - 1975



'The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage
alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes
have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition
except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing.'



'My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves
competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a
sport.'


'It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.'

the end.

[V-Robb]

Ja, Ich hab' Arnold sehr gern.

Yes, I dig Arnie, too! How about these:

"C'mon, get serious. 2 more..."

"Your buttocks are like marshmallows! You're lucky we don't have a campfire here in the background, believe me."

and unrelated to workout motivation:

"...and I inhaled, unlike some people."

[anth342]

ahahah in arnold we trust

[TheAssassin]

awesome quotes thanks

[kglic1]

"If you cant sacrifice for your dream, then its not your dream"

[Scottvckrs]

nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

I like that one, but my current favorites are:

"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
-Arnold

-and-

"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