Good weightlifting quotes and captions can inspire athletes to be their best. Training can be a long, arduous journey where it is a temptation to quit or take it easy on yourself. Sources of inspiration are needed. Perhaps it’s the examples of others training in the gym, words from a mentor, or motivational weightlifting quotes.
We’ve assembled 85 of the best, inspirational weightlifting quotes to inspire you. After that, we have a few images for motivation, followed by some captions to use with your fitness photos. So, good luck, and don’t skip leg day.
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Motivational Weightlifting Quotes
- Some are born strong, and others are made strong.
J.R. Rim - Bodybuilding isn’t 90 minutes in the gym. It’s a lifestyle.
Lee Priest - The clock is ticking. Are you becoming the person you want to be?
Greg Plitt - If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.
Bret Contreras - The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand - Intensity builds immensity.
Kevin Levrone - Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson - You don’t find willpower; you create it.
Unknown - 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 - 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 - There is no strength without the struggle.
Unknown - A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.
Joan Welsh - Victory isn’t defined by wins and losses; it’s defined by effort.
Kai Greene - The pain you feel today is the strength you’ll feel tomorrow.
Unknown - Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau - Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it.
Les Brown - Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford - The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment.
Justin Langer - Pain is a weakness leaving the body.
Unknown - Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood, and tears, and effort in the gym every day.
Gabby Douglas - Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible
Frank L. Gaines - Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
Joseph Pilates - You don’t have to get ready if you stay ready.
Donald Cerrone - 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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, ‘Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.’
Unknown - The first and greatest victory is to conquer self.
Plato - Don’t be scared to lift heavy! You won’t get huge and bulky; you’ll get amazing.
Jessie Hilgenberg - Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet, and mental approach.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Compared to the challenges of raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.
Melanie Roach - The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.
Miguel Cotto - I don’t do this to be healthy; I do this to get big muscles.
Marcus Ruhl - The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as a wolf climbing the hill.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - If you aren’t begging for rest. Then you aren’t training your best.
Unknown - We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Jim Rohn - Some people are born to lift heavy weights; some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm - For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about inner happiness and overall well-being.
Rakul Preet Singh - Come in the gym like you’re going to war.
Unknown - I attend to my fitness. I go to the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chessboard.
Viswanathan Anand - I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain’t nothin’ to it, but to do it.
Ronnie Coleman - Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn - Most champions are built by punching the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.
Dan John - Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will
Mahatma Gandhi - No pain, no gain.
Jane Fonda - If you have discipline, drive, determination, nothing is impossible.
Dana Linn Bailey - The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell.
Craig Cecil - There are two types of pains, one that hurts you and the other that changes you.
Jetti Woodruff - To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise, we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha - The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells.
Ed Zern - Forget failure. Forget mistakes. And, forget everything, except what you’re going to do now. And do it.
Lou Ferrigno - Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever
Lance Armstrong - No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Socrates - What makes a weightlifting program successful? Your hard work and dedication.
Greg Everett - Passion trumps everything.
Dave Tate - 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 - Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.
Ryan Lilly - I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Jack LaLanne - To be a champion, you must act like a champion.
Lou Ferrigno - Unless you want to lift beyond your limits to get stronger, to achieve new goals, and to be satisfied, you have to lift past these challenges and still lift the things you think are impossible to really understand how your true strength will show. Lift how I lift, see how I lift, watch how I lift, learn how I lift, and your true strength will come forth and be revealed.
Chasers Holmes - 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 - When you hit failure, your workout has just begun.
Ronnie Coleman - Don’t ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Unknown - Set your bodybuilding goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
Felicity Luckey - Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller - To be number one, you have to train like you’re number two.
Maurice Green - Working chest, delts, tris, and biceps work is approximately 10% of your overall lean body mass. Working hard on deadlifts (bent legged, trap Bar, or sumo) or squatting (not necessarily at the same time) works more like 70% of your musculature at once and sends a strong message to your body to get better at growing now.
Wesley Silveira - Heavy lifting doesn’t need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.
Buzz Aldrin - You have to be at your strongest when you’re feeling at your weakest.
Unknown - Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
Jack LaLanne - The road to nowhere is paved with excuses.
Mark Bell - Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Once you can squat 180 kilograms, your arms and shoulders will come along much more receptively…If you want big arms and shoulders, your first priority is to be sure that your leg/hip/back structure is growing and becoming powerful.
Stuart McRobert - The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.
Navy SEAL’s - Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln - If you’re training hard and heavy with the goal of lifting something awesome, something is always going to hurt. Whether it’s your wrists, elbows, knees, hamstring, or even something ridiculous like a serratus muscle, one body part or another is always going to be giving you some bullshit. The elite athletes train in spite of or around those injuries.
Jamie Lewis - Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin - Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually, it will subside, and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong - Discipline is the bridge between your bodybuilding goals and bodybuilding success.
Felicity Luckey - Intensity is just another word for pain. You should feel that intensity every time you pick up a weight. If I don’t feel the sensation of this intensity down to my bones, then I know that I have to increase my focus and my weight. It gives me great satisfaction.
Claude Groulx - Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.
Ronnie Coleman - It never gets easier. You just get stronger.
Unknown - If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape – you will get heavier – but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn’t really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size.
Victoria Pendleton - 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 - Weight lifting is about lifting the impossible, overcoming the unachievable. If you don’t lift things that are hard and only do the things you can do, it’s only going to get boring.
Chasers Holmes - If you’re capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren’t working hard enough.
Dave Tate
Weightlifting Images Inspirational
It never gets easier. You just get stronger.
Unknown
“There is no strength without struggle.”
Unknown
Intensity builds immensity.
Kevin Levrone
Captions for Instagram
These inspirational weightlifting captions are great for Instagram, Facebook, and other social media. And, don’t forget to use a hashtag or two.
- Go Big or Go Home!
- Rise and Grind!
- Planks well with others.
- I don’t sweat; I perspire.
- I’d flex but my girlfriend gave me this shirt.
- Too fit to quit.
- Excuses don’t burn calories.
- Winners train; Losers complain.
- Getting my fit on.
- Swole mates.
- Separation comes from preparation.
- Nobody cares; work harder.
- Everyday is gym day.
- Making myself stronger than my excuses.
- Why put off feeling good?
- Progress not perfection.
- Don’t count the days; make the days count.
- My warmup is your workout.
- Cardio is Italian for “I don’t want to.”
- Gym hair, don’t care.
- Do you for you.
- One workout away from a good mood.
- Train insane or remain the same.
- Commit to be fit.
- Best me ever!
- Cardio is Hardio.
- No can’ts allowed.
- Shut up and squat.
- Hustle for that muscle.
- Raise the bar.
- More reps; fewer texts.
- Be strong, be fit.
- Planks then dranks.
- Please let me know if my biceps get in your way.
- I run like I don’t like to.
- Burpees? I thought you said, “Beer, please.”
- Stop saying tomorrow.
- Lift and repeat.
- No matter how small the weights, you’re still out lifting everyone on the couch.
- Stop wishing; start doing.
- Ugh!
- Straight Outta Breath
- Dream big, lift big.
- Beast Mode: On!
- Nothing will work unless I do.
- Weights before dates.
- Victimized by my trainer.
- The Squatfather.
- Tricerasquats.
- The extra mile is never crowded.
Weightlifting Hashtags
- #deadlift
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- #jacked
- #fit
- #gymlife
- #exercise
- #workout
- #girlswithmuscle
- #whichwaytothebeach
- #curls
- #progress
- #gymfreak
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- #crossfit
- #motivation
— Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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