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you’re tired of fighting with your body day in and day out.

I’m here to tell you that everyone feels this way from time to time. It’s natural to have doubts and fears – and to even think about quitting.

However, the way you deal with this feeling makes all the difference, and it’s what separates those who achieve their goals from those who never quite make it. Are you going to recognize the feeling for what it is – a temporary blip – and push through it, or are you going to give in and give up?

Before you give up, consider the fact that you may just need a little motivation and inspiration

1. "Work hard,  grind hard and play hard". 

2. "Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree." - Ed Coan

3. "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. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds." - Henry Rollins

4. “Sell yourself short on nutrition and you’re selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development.” - Ernie Taylor

5. "Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max." - Jim Conroy

6. "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

7. "Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great." - Laurence Shahlaei

8. "My old routine was McDonald's on the way to the gym, coffee during my workout, Burger King and Copenhagen post-workout." - Dave Tate

9. "If your waist measurement begins with a 2...EAT!" - SCStrong

10. “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” - Thomas Jefferson

11. "I'm an extremist, and I hope to be remembered that way: noncompliant and an artist. I do not want to be remembered as a nice guy. I want to be the slayer of Bambi." - David Dearth

12. "If a man tells you he doesn't lift because he doesn't want to get too bulky, then his testicles have been removed." - Paul Carter

13. “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

14. "If you're capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren't working hard enough." - Dave Tate

15. "Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero." - Steve Shaw

16. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher

17. “Don’t have $100.00 shoes and a 10 cent squat.” – Louie Simmons

18. "I’m sure you’ve all read the latest article on the popular muscle building sites about how to develop a fuller, thicker back with “these 2 NEW maximal hypertrophy igniting muscle shocking lifts!” The title lures you in, but when you get inside, you find a small man doing strange movements that make little sense and use almost no weight. They aren’t making him any thicker, and they aren’t likely to add slabs of lean mass to you either." - Jordan Martin

19. "A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t." - Jack Dempsey

20. "Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses." - Tom Platz

21. "If you can't explain the essence of your program to a three-year old in 60 seconds, its too complicated. I've trained with Olympic medal winners and I can assure you, they don't do anything mysterious, they just do the exercises better than we do." -  Maik Weidenbach

22. "I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think." - Franco Columbu

23. "There is no such thing as over training, just under nutrition and under sleeping." - The Barbarian brothers

24. "The road to nowhere is paved with excuses." - Mark Bell

25. "As soon as a milestone is passed, it’s significance fades, and the focus is shifted to some other marker further down the road. No matter what you do or how satisfying it is in that beautiful moment in time, immediately you want more. You have to, if you want to find out how good you can be." - Glenn Pendlay

26. “I don’t do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.” - Markus Ruhl

27. "Some people like to live without too much risk. They’re satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you’re squatting 500 for reps and you can’t get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that’s set one." -Tom Platz

28. "I don’t believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn’t have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.” - Steve Reeves

29. "I'm not sold on one diet philosophy. I'm sold on whatever will work for you." - Dave Tate

30. "I always get suspicious whenever someone suggests that it's the fruit in their diet that's making them fat. I've seen a lot of crazy things in my time, but I've yet to encounter anyone whose admitted to polishing off a bag of apples while watching Dancing with the Stars..." - Shelby Starnes