Muscles Quotes

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  The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  Carl Sagan

  Wisdom, Understanding, Brain

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• Commitment is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

  Chalene Johnson

  Commitment, Stronger, Use

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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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• Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

  Evelyn Ashford

  Hard Work, My Own, Products

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  Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

  Alex Karras

  Strength, Fitness, Inspirational Sports

  "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

  Ruth Gordon

  Inspirational, Witty, Courage

  L'Officiel magazine, Summer 1980.

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• Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

  Lynn Jennings

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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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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• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivation, Work

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• Practice puts brains in your muscles.

  Sam Snead

  Inspirational, Golf, Practice

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• If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

  Brent Weeks

  Embarrassment, Huge, Ifs

  Brent Weeks (2010). “The Black Prism: Book 1 of Lightbringer”, p.281, Hachette UK

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• A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Running, Morning, Car

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• Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

  Sid Waddell

  Heart, Stones, Beats

  "A shocking sight at the theatre" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2006.

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• Style is like a muscle: you have to exercise it regularly or you'll lose it.

  Nina Garcia

  Fashion, Exercise, Style

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• The mind is just another muscle.

  Ted Turner

  Inspirational, Mind

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• Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Patience, Building Up, Needs

  Eknath Easwaran (2009). “Renewal: A Little Book of Courage and Hope”, p.29, Nilgiri Press

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• All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

  Allegra Kent

  Get Well, Body

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• Life yields only to the conqueror.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Yield, Conqueror

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Running, Business

  FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from Mar 22, 2014

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• A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

  Serge Nubret

  Motivational, Sports, Bodybuilding

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• Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Peculiar, Intimate, Organs

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• I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Strong, Biceps, Weight

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• Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sarcastic, Fitness, Sarcasm

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• People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Women, Hard Times

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• Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

  Paul Whiteman

  Symphony, Soul, Jazz

  Paul Whiteman (1948). “Records for the millions”

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