Everyone needs motivation when trying to achieve something. Sometimes people give up on something too quickly just because they don’t have much motivation. Below are 20 inspirational quotes I collected that can help jumpstart your body transformation. These are from great people that you might or might not know and they can even be applied in our everyday lives, not just when it comes to fitness.
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. – Wayne Gretzky
Pain is only weakness leaving the body. – Unknown
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford
It’s never too late to become what you might have been. – George Elliot
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. – Theodore Roosevelt
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Gagehot
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. – Lena Horne
The journey of a thousand miles begins witha single step. – Chinese proverb
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning form failure. – Colin Powell
Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride. – Vince Lombardi
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. – Brian Tracy
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hated every minute of training, but I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion. – Muhammad Ali
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them. – Ralph Marston
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
Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated. – Russel Warren
Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you – Ovid
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
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