Top 100 Motivational Bodybuilding Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 2 of 3

51. “Sweat is just fat crying.”

— Anonymous

52. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Ryan Blair

53. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

— Walter Bagehot

54. “The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.”

— Henry Rollins

55. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

— Jim Rohn

56. “The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”

— Brian Tracy

57. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”

— Ovid

58. “That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

59. “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

— William Arthur Ward

60. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

61. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

— Vince Lombardi

62. “There’s more to life than training, but training is what puts more in your life.”

— Brooks Kubik

63. “From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body. I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done, so the challenge appealed to me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

64. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.””

— Muhammad Ali

65. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

— Anaïs Nin

66. “You have to remember something: everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

67. “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

— Marilyn Vos Savant

68. “All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

69. “Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.”

— Dianne Houston

70. “Today’s weakness is tomorrow’s failure.”

— Anonymous

71. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Muhammad Ali

72. “What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else and avoid trouble?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

73. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

— Vince Lombardi

74. “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”

— John Wooden

75. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

76. “SORE TODAY, STRONG TOMORROW.”

— Anonymous

77. “The psychological tools I’ve gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.”

— Tom Platz

78. “Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.”

— Chinese proverb

79. “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

80. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.”

— Calvin Coolidge

81. “Belief triggers the power to do.”

— David J. Schwartz

82. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

— Tim Notke

83. “The road to nowhere is paved with excuses.”

— Mark Bell

84. “It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.”

— Muhammad Ali

85. “Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.”

— Kai Greene

86. “You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision. And you know that it is the right thing to do and success will come.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

87. “I challenge myself everyday to be the most positive and enthusiastic person I know.”

— Robert Cheeke

88. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius

89. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

90. “I didn't want to just be a body building champion. I wanted to be the best body builder of all time. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

91. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

— Muhammad Ali

92. “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

— Steve Prefontaine

93. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

94. “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

95. “Intensity builds immensity.”

— Kevin Levrone

96. “Strong and healthy is the new sexy.”

— Ronda Rousey

97. “Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve.”

— Stella Juarez

98. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

99. “The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope.”

— Norman Cousins

100. “Stimulate don’t Annihilate.”

— Lee Haney