200+ weight lifting quotes, sayings

Quotes about weight training – P2

1. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
2. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
3. “Most people give up right before the big break comes—don’t let that person be you.” – Michael Boyle
4. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
5. “The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
6. “If you’re capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren’t working hard enough.” – Dave Tate
7. “There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
8. “The clock is ticking. Are you becoming the person you want to be?” – Greg Plitt
9. “Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.” – Mike Tyson
10. “Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.” – Jack LaLanne
11. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
12. “You can have results or excuses, not both.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
13. “Good things come to those who sweat.”
14. “Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.”
15. “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” – Russell Warren
16. “To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.” – Gene Tunney
17. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
18. “The pain of today is the victory of tomorrow.”
19. “Excuses are for people who don’t want it bad enough.”
20. “A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.” – Jack Dempsey
21. “Don’t let the scale define you. Be active, be healthy, be happy.”
22. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
23. “You don’t drown by falling in water; you drown by staying there.” – Ed Cole
24. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
25. “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” – Denis Waitley
26. “The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.” – Mark Rippetoe
27. “What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
28. “You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible.” – Kai Greene
29. “The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.” – Arthur C. Clarke
30. “The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!” – Marvin Phillips
31. “Strength does not come from the body. It comes from the will.” – Ghandi
32. “If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.” – Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
33. “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.”
34. “The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.” – Swami Sivananda
35. “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” – John F. Kennedy
36. “Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” – Rocky Balboa
37. “Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren’t prepared to go is what will make you great.” – Laurence Shahlaei
38. “Strength shows, not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. “Of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great.” – A League of Their Own
40. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
41. “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.” – Jillian Michaels
42. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams
43. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
44. “The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.” – William Temple
45. “Life has its ups and downs. We call them squats.”
46. “No pain, no gain. Shut up and train.”
47. “Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.” – Marquis de Sade
48. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
49. “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.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
50. “You’re only one workout away from a good mood.”

Inspirational quotes about lifting weights – P3

1. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
2. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
3. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
4. “It’s not about how bad you want it. It’s about how hard you’re willing to work for it.”
5. “The only thing that stands between you and what you want from life is simply the will to pursue it and the faith to believe it’s possible.”
6. “You can’t control what you’re given, but you can control how you use it.”
7. “The best project you’ll ever work on is you.”
8. “Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of yours.”
9. “A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
10. “The body is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs.” – Louise Hay
11. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
12. “The pain you feel today is the strength you’ll feel tomorrow.”
13. “The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.”
14. “You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.”
15. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.” – Muhammad Ali
16. “Don’t tell everyone your plans, instead show them your results.”
17. “It’s not about having time. It’s about making time.”
18. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee
19. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
20. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
21. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
22. “You don’t get the ass you want by sitting on it.”
23. “The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.”
24. “Strength is a matter of a made up mind.” – John Beecher
25. “Don’t let the scale determine how you feel about yourself and your life.”
26. “Your workout is my warmup.”
27. “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine
28. “The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
29. “Train like a beast, look like a beauty.”
30. “The only time Success comes before Work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
31. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
32. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
33. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
34. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
35. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan
36. “The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline.” – Steve Smith
37. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
38. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
39. “What seems impossible today will one day become your warm-up.”
40. “Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to stay the same.”
41. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
42. “Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
43. “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.” – Jillian Michaels
44. “The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret.” – Sarah Bombell
45. “You are the creator of your own destiny.”
46. “Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.” – Khloe Kardashian
47. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton
48. “If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” – Ronnie Lott
49. “If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll probably have to make time for illness.” – Robin Sharma
50. “What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow.”

Motivational quotes for weight lifting – P4

1. “The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.” – Ernie Banks
2. “When you feel like stopping… think about why you started.”
3. “Don’t stop when it hurts; stop when you’re done.”
4. “To be number one, you have to train like you’re number two.” – Maurice Greene
5. “Your struggle today is your strength tomorrow.”
6. “Every day is another chance to get stronger, to eat better, to live healthier, and to be the best version of you.”
7. “You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
8. “Muscles are torn in the gym, fed in the kitchen, and built in bed.”
9. “The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
10. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” – Fred DeVito
11. “Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going anyway.”
12. “The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come.”
13. “The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph’.”
14. “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson
15. “Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.” – Orison Swett Marden
16. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
17. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
18. “It’s not about how bad you want it, it’s about how hard you’re willing to work for it.”
19. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
20. “The road to nowhere is paved with excuses.”
21. “It’s actually pretty simple. Either you do it, or you don’t.”
22. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
23. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma
24. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”
25. “The pain of today is the victory of tomorrow.”
26. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
27. “There’s no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard, and aim to be the best.” – Ronnie Coleman
28. “In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.” – Rich Froning Jr.
29. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson
30. “The body achieves what the mind believes.”
31. “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” – Denis Waitley
32. “You can have results or excuses. Not both.”
33. “Respect your body. It’s the only one you get.”
34. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” – Vince Lombardi
35. “The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.”
36. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean
37. “Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.”
38. “The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline.” – Steve Smith
39. “You must do what others don’t, to achieve what others won’t.” – Henry Rollins
40. “Don’t decrease the goal. Increase the effort!”
41. “The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
42. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid
43. “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” – Edwin Louis Cole
44. “You are born weak and die weak, what you are in between those two periods of time is up to you.” – Unknown
45. “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.” – Jillian Michaels
46. “Do today what others won’t, so tomorrow you can do what others can’t.”
47. “Strength is the product of struggle.” – Mark Rippetoe
48. “If you’re not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you’re not demanding more from yourself – expanding and learning as you go – you’re choosing a numb existence. You’re denying yourself an extraordinary trip.” – Dean Karnazes
49. “You have to push past your perceived limits, push past that point you thought was as far as you can go.” – Drew Brees
50. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer

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