Bodybuilding Motivation Quotes:

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

- Nancy Lopez

topic: Oleanders, Aviation, Bodybuilding Motivation, Airborne, Cockpit

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Grad, Inspirational Graduation

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

- Marilyn vos Savant

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Journey To Success, Inspirational Determination

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

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Strength Of Will

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

- Margi Preus

topic: Strength, Fall, Bodybuilding, Japanese Proverbs, Strength Of Will

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Great Sports, Sports Spirit

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That 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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Attitude, Struggle, Moving, Mentally Tough, Sports Mental Toughness

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

topic: Life, Inspiring, Moving, Hungry Eyes, Meaning Life

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

- Marian Diamond

topic: Change, Workout, Emotional, Young Entrepreneurs, Disruption

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspirational Health And Fitness, Strength Training, Motivational Bodybuilding, Physique, Great Bodybuilding

Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.

- Jim Conroy

topic: Girl, Workout, Chinese, Sports Training, Warming Up

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

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

topic: Workout, Men, Differences, Trainers, Look At Yourself In The Mirror

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

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

topic: Strength, Running, Two, Iron Will, Motivational Training

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

topic: Workout, Block, Eye, Bodybuilder, Bodybuilding Motivation

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

- Ronnie Coleman

source: "Ronnie Coleman: The Unbelievable!". DVD, 2005.

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Workout, Strength Training, Motivational Bodybuilding

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

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Journey To Success

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

source: Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, I Am The Best, Inspirational Coach

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Indomitable, Indomitable Spirit

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Bad Ass, Anxiety, Doubt, Bodybuilding Motivation

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

- Lee Labrada

topic: Workout, Good Friend, Bodybuilding, Motivational Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding Motivation

When I was 15-years-old, 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

topic: Sports, Mirrors, Years, Motivational Bodybuilding, Great Bodybuilding

To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men

- Fredrick Hatfield

topic: Song, Strong, Men, Strong Man, Folklore

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

- Mark Rippetoe

topic: Workout, Mean, Strength Training, Bodybuilder, Bodybuilding Motivation

On resting in between reps: It varies with the length of the set. 5s or fewer get a breath to reset. Longer sets might take 2 breaths. During the last few reps of a true 20RM squat, just do what Jesus tells you. Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.

- Mark Rippetoe

topic: Jesus, Might, Lasts, Last Day, Reset

On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.

- Steve Shaw

topic: Workout, Real, Mean, Squat, Fitness Training

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

- Dorian Yates

topic: Strength, Mistake, Effort, Strength Training, Motivational Bodybuilding

They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?

- Kai Greene

topic: Workout, Fun, Cracks, Strength Training, Motivational Workout

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Stronger, Doe, Kill Me, Make Me Strong, Mans Search For Meaning

I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.

- Markus Ruhl

topic: Workout, Healthy, Muscles, Weightlifting, Weight Lifting

Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you're squatting 500 for reps and you can't get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that's set one.

- Tom Platz

topic: Workout, Attitude, Fall, Grunt, Squat

I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.

- Steve Reeves

topic: Workout, Nice, Believe, Strength Training, Ping Pong

There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!

- Jon Pall Sigmarsson

topic: Workout, Motivational Workout, Alive, Strength Training, Great Bodybuilding

After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

- Tom Platz

topic: Workout, Emotional, Artist, Bodybuilder, Bodybuilding Motivation

There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift

- Jon Pall Sigmarsson

topic: Strength, Alive, Strength Training, Bodybuilding Motivation, Bodybuilding Training

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Success, Sports, Motivation, Motivational Bodybuilding, Motivational Workout

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Health, Thinking, Lunch, Motivational Bodybuilding, Body Image

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

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Make People Feel Better

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

- Ralph Marston

topic: Athlete, Path, Obstacles, Motivational Exercise, Motivational Bodybuilding

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

- Michael Kirby

topic: Determination, Long, Stronger, Motivational Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding Motivation

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

- Mark Rippetoe

topic: Strong, Workout, People, Strength Training, Motivational Training

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

topic: Running, Workout, Guy, Motivational Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding Motivation

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

topic: Workout, Book, Hype, Motivational Workout, Bodybuilding Motivation

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

- Walter Bagehot

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Life Is Not Worth Living, Just Live Your Life