Ultimate Collection of Bodybuilding Inspirational Quotes to Fuel Your Fitness Journey

"I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done."

- David Goggins

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone 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

"Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

- Kobe Bryant

"What we face may look insurmountable, but what I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Hard work and training. There’s no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best."

- Ronnie Coleman

"When you hit failure your workout has just begun."

- Ronnie Coleman

"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight."

- Ronnie Coleman

"If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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

"There’s no secrets or magic tricks to being successful in life. It’s plain and simple. Work harder than everyone else and the only way to do that is to do it. It may sound silly but it’s the truth and there aint nothing to it but to do it!"

- Ronnie Coleman

"You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"The clock is ticking. Are you becoming the person you want to be?"

- Greg Plitt

"What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow."

- Jay Cutler

"If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied."

- Dwayne Johnson

"My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can’t control how they’re going to look. I can only control how I look."

- Ronnie Coleman

"It will always be about working your ass off and being consistent to be successful at anything in life!"

- Rich Piana

"Most people in the world wouldn’t last 2 min in our world. We literally destroy ourselves everyday to make us a little bit better."

- Rich Piana

"Eat real fucking food and train your ass off! It’s not complicated but it is hard work. That’s why you have to fucking love it."

- Rich Piana

"I think the biggest mistake people make is not believing in themselves enough."

- Rich Piana

"Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you’re not laying a brick down. Somebody else is."

- Dorian Yates

"I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain’t nothin’ to it, but to do it."

- Ronnie Coleman

"Never follow the crowd. Go where it’s empty."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The more you’re obsessed by something, the better chance you have of achieving it."

- Frank Zane

"Dont be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed."

- Lebron James

"You’re going to have to let it hurt. Let it suck. The harder your work, the better you will look. Your appearance isn’t parallel to how heavy you lift, it’s parallel to how hard you work."

- Joe Manganiello

"Dreams Don’t work unless You Do."

- John C.Maxwell

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you."

- Fred Devito

"A beginner does eight repetitions of a certain exercise with his maximum weight on the barbell. As soon as it hurts, he thinks about stopping. I work beyond this point, which means I tell my mind that as soon as it starts aching it is growing."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s not what you do once in a while; it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."

- Jenny Craig

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

- Ghandi

"What I’m doing is the thing I want to do. I don’t care what other people think. If the rest of disagrees and says I shouldn’t waste my time, I still will be a bodybuilder."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?"

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."

- Henry Rollins

"Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision."

- Muhammad Ali

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"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

"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

"Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom."

- Jack LaLanne

"We all have great inner power. The 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

"When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Good things don’t happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Suppose a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn’t try at all."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."

- Jim Rohn

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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

"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying."

- Tony Robbins

"Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits."

- Jerry Dunn

"Train insane or remain the same."

- Jillian Michaels

"Is it 10g of protein more or 10g of protein less, who cares, just get started."

- Kai Greene

"You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible."

- Kai Greene

"Do not let yourself be contaminated by others’ ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking."

- Kai Greene

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"The person with the biggest dreams is more powerful than the person with all the answers."

- Kai Greene

"Get out, realize your dream, and go for it."

- Kai Greene

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and at some point you will."

- Ronda Rousey

"If you fully believe you will be successful and can visualize yourself being successful, you will succeed."

- Tom Platz

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"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

"Having a clear-cut passion and a need, an innate need to explore that passion. That’s what fuels your endeavor."

- Tom Platz

"When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can’t give up. Because, when you’re in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate – in any field – are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent."

- Tom Platz

"The Gym is my anchor and it’s what keeps me grounded. It’s MY TIME to become a better version of myself."

- Phil Heath

"Actually to be a champion your goal is to be a little bit better each day, making sure that every day is an opportunity to be at your best."

- Phil Heath

"I think a lot of people will, say oh he’s genetically gifted, oh he’s this and that. Get over it people, I worked my ass off."

- Phil Heath

"Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!"

- Phil Heath

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The mindset of a champion is that I put myself in a certain situation to win, I don’t play to lose, I dont prepare to lose, I hate second place and I definitely don’t like silver."

- Phil Heath

"Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts."

- Dan John

"If it was easy everyone would be a champion, so you’ve got to decide if you’re that person that’s going to be a champion."

- Phil Heath

"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

"When you hit failure, your workout has just begun."

- Ronnie Coleman

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"A lot of guys have better genes, but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them."

- Frank Zane

"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracián

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"At the end of the day it’s not a weight contest, it’s a visual contest. And it doesn’t matter what you say you weigh, if you don’t look that big then you don’t look that big."

- Dorian Yates

"I’ve found my true calling in life, and I’m living life on my terms."

- Kai Greene

"In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece."

- Kai Greene

"I don’t believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action."

- Tom Platz

"Bodybuilding has been my life; if it weren’t for bodybuilding, I don’t know what I’d be doing. I look at bodybuilding as who I am."

- Tom Platz

"There’s no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others."

- Phil Heath

"Being weak is a choice, so is being strong."

- Frank Zane

"Live your life by the hour, not by the day. What will you achieve in the next hour?"

- Frank Zane

"Continuity is how you build a physique."

- Frank Zane

"To be successful in bodybuilding, you have to be a good observer."

- Frank Zane

"Impossible is Just an Opinion"

- Paulo Coelho

"Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you."

- Jack LaLanne

"Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong."

- Mark Rippetoe

"Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them."

- Lee Haney

"The road to nowhere is paved with excuses."

- Mark Bell

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

- Serge Nubret

"I don’t diet and exercise. I eat and train."

- J.R. Rim

"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

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!"

- Robert H. Schuller

"My arms and chest were always the hardest for me. I obsessed over my arms for 32 years! I did everything to bring them up: for 2 years, I did mini arm workouts every night before bed!"

- Rich Piana

"You need to be aware, educated, and willing to do whatever it takes to remain healthy and keep the body healthy."

- Rich Piana

"If I listened to my instincts, I’d be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting"

- Dorian Yates

"Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Bodybuilding should be fun because you get a feeling of satisfaction which is very hard to explain. A bodybuilder knows when he pumps up his muscles it means growth."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."

- Bill Bowerman

"I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell."

- Craig Cecil

"Stimulate don’t annihilate."

- Lee Haney

"Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"In every race, there’s a moment when you think you can’t go any further. That’s when you dig deep and find out what you’re really made of."

- Steve Prefontaine

"The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all."

- Princess Diaries

"The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory."

- Les Brown

"My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I’ll never be perfect, but I can be better. Today, I’m focusing on improvement, not perfection."

- Bonnie Pfiester

"The gym is my playground, and the weights are my toys."

- Lee Priest

"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince."

- Anon

"In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up."

- Rich Froning Jr.

"You will never always be motivated. You have to learn to be disciplined."

- Anon

"Work until your idols become your rivals."

- Drake

"Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself."

- Harvey Specter (Suits)

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up."

"If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up."

- Unknown

"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started."

- Unknown

"When you feel like quitting, remember why you started."

"Every obstacle is an opportunity to prove your strength."

"The true measure of a Viking is his ability to rise after each fall."

"It never gets easier, you just get stronger."

"Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you."

"You don’t find willpower; you create it."

"Obstacles are opportunities in disguise. Embrace the challenge."

"Challenge yourself to overcome, and the finish line will be within reach."

"Your strength doesn’t come from what you can do; it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"Your body can stand almost anything; it’s your mind you have to convince."

"Embrace the struggle, for it shapes the warrior within."

"The path to glory is paved with courage and sacrifice."

"In the heat of battle, you find your true self."

"Strong today, stronger tomorrow."

"With each battle, we carve our names into the sagas of history."

"A warrior’s strength is not measured by his sword, but by his spirit."

"A Viking does not fear the storm; he becomes it."

"Working out is not about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be."

"Results happen over time, not overnight. Work hard, stay consistent."

"Lift heavy, live light."

"Make your workout your daily therapy."

"In the heart of every Viking beats the rhythm of the fjords."

"Don’t stop when you are tired, stop when you are done."

"When you are giving up, someone is still doing."

"Light weight or heavy weight, they all must be lifted."

"Get fit in the gym, lose weight in the kitchen."

"Everyone wants to be a beast until it’s time to do what real beasts do."

"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."

"The barbell is an incredibly honest tool. It will always highlight your weaknesses."

"If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous."

"The iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The iron will always kick you the real deal."

"Know your worth."

"There’s no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard, and aim to be the best."

"Don’t afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."

"My best is yet to come."

"Being defeated is optional."

"Hold the Vision, Trust the Process"

"Be patient, the results will speak for themselves."

"The only bad workout is the one you didn’t do."

"Sweat is your body’s way of showing progress."

"Pain is temporary, but pride is forever."