We have listed some of the best bodybuilding motivation quotes and sayings from the popular weightlifters, athletes, trainers and more inspiring personalities.
These amazing bodybuilding quotes will fill you with energy and confidence to transform your body and get absolutely fit.
You should be able to train your mind before your body for getting disciplined and determined to achieve what you want. Bodybuilding demands a lot of effort and encouragement and that’s why it is called the hustle. It requires regular hard work without a day off, so never despair and keep going on. In these quotes, some of the bodybuilding legends will stimulate your confidence with their real life stories and experiences. It is all about believing in yourself and working towards your desires.
1. Don’t have $100.00 shoes and a 10 cent squat.-Louie Simmons
2. 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
3. Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.-Arnold Schwarzenegger
4. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.-William Arthur Ward
5. Not only are squats not bad for the knees, every legitimate research study on this subject has shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries.-Charles Poliquin
6. 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
7. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.-Mahatma Gandhi
8. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.-Jesse Owens
9. In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.-Rich Froning
10. Discipline is the bridge between your bodybuilding goals and bodybuilding success.-Felicity Luckey
11. Fortunately, there is a solution, and it’s not performing multiple sets of whatever cable Kegel exercise is being pushed as The Answer. Just a little hard, smart, basic work.-Jim Wendler
12. If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.-Bret Contreras
13. Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.-Jack Lalanne
14. There is no such thing as over training, just under nutrition and under sleeping.-The Barbarian brothers
15. 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
16. Your body is a piece of art but it’s always a work in progress. You are never done improving your symmetry and eliminating weak points.-Morgan Aste
17. 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-Fred Hatfield
18. There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
19. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.-Friedrich Nietzsche
20. Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.-George Halas
21. I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.-Jack Lalanne
22. The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.-Arnold Schwarzenegger
23. I’m not sold on one diet philosophy. I’m sold on whatever will work for you.-Dave Tate
24. All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.-Dorian Yates
25. Stimulate don’t annihilate-Lee Haney
26. 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
27. Is it 10g of protein more or 10g of protein less, who cares, just get started-Kai Greene
28. I don’t do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.-Markus Ruhl
29. If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.-Herschel Walker
30. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning form failure.-Colin Powell