Bodybuilding Motivation Quotes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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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

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Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Margi Preus

Strength, Fall, Bodybuilding

Margi Preus (2011). “Heart of a Samurai”, p.157, Abrams

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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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

Life, Inspiring, Workout

Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength, Fitness, Bodybuilding

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

Marian Diamond

Change, Workout, Emotional

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength, Sports, Fitness

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

Jim Conroy

Girl, Workout, Bodybuilding

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You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports, Believe

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

Ayn Rand

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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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

Workout, Business, Love Yourself

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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

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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

Workout, Block, Eye

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

Ronnie Coleman

Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding, Vision, Willpower

Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revis”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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

Lee Labrada

Workout, Good Friend, Bodybuilding

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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

Sports, Bodybuilding, Clothes

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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

Song, Strong, Men

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