Top 100 Motivational Bodybuilding Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Always asked, ‘Whats the key to success?’ The key is, there is no key. Be humble, hungry and always be the hardest worker in the room.”

— Dwayne Johnson

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2. “The pain you feel today is the strength you’ll feel tomorrow.”

— Anonymous

3. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

— Vince Lombardi

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4. “You have to go through the worst to get to the best.”

— Anonymous

5. “Work until your idols become your rivals.”

— Anonymous

6. “Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Vision Quotes

7. “Hard work and training. There’s no secret formula.”

— Ronnie Coleman

8. “Don’t do your best, do whatever it takes.”

— Anonymous

9. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

— Lance Armstrong

Also featured in: Running Quotes

10. “Work until your brain forgets and your body remembers.”

— Anonymous

11. “Being weak is a choice, so is being strong.”

— Frank Zane

12. “You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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13. “Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.”

— Anonymous

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14. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

15. “Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.”

— Greg Plitt

16. “How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?”

— Jason Bishop

17. “Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

18. “Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.”

— Jim Rohn

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19. “You’re only one workout away from a good mood.”

— Anonymous

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20. “Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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21. “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”

— Anonymous

22. “The real workout begins when you want to stop.”

— Anonymous

23. “Slow progress is better than no progress.”

— Anonymous

24. “Fitness is not about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be.”

— Brett Hoebel

25. “While you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

26. “It’s a lifestyle – train like there’s no finish line.”

— Anonymous

27. “Make time for it. Just get it done. Nobody ever got strong by thinking about it. They did it.”

— Will Smith

28. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

— Gary Player

29. “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

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30. “When you feel like quitting think about why you started.”

— Anonymous

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31. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Jim Rohn

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32. “The best project you’ll ever work on is you.”

— Sonny Franco

33. “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”

— Dan Montano

34. “If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

35. “Pain is weakness leaving the body.”

— United States Marine Corps

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36. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ”

— Jim Rohn

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37. “The body achieves what the mind believes.”

— Anonymous

38. “What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.”

— Muhammad Ali

39. “Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.”

— Sun Tzu

40. “There are no shortcuts – everything is reps, reps, reps.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

41. “Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.”

— Mark Rippetoe

42. “You don’t demand respect, you earn it.”

— Anonymous

43. “There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.”

— Ralph Marston

44. “It’s going to be hard, but hard doesn’t mean impossible.”

— Anonymous

45. “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

46. “You don’t find willpower, you create it.”

— Anonymous

47. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

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48. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

— Nora Roberts

49. “Trust yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

50. “When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger