Inspirational Quotes

Other than most phrases uttered in fight club… (which I’ll post after this). What phrases do you find inspirational?

Personally I use these three:

“Praise be to the Lord my God who train’s my fingers for war and my hands for battle” (Psalm 48?)

“I am the extreme case of fire and anger, the misguided angel with ice in his veins”

“There is no pain where strength lies”

Lets hear some more!

-Xen

disclaimer: ya, ya, the last one is from star wars, but I look exactly like darth maul sans makeup and horns (me= short guy with evil eyes, gymnastic skills and a weapons license)
And I like that other than “no pain no gain”, the grammatical tense implies that pain is something that cannot exist, that pain itself is fiction that there can exist only strength. There IS no pain, there cannot be pain, what you are feeling is NOT pain, it’s weakness. If you believe yourself to be strong, then you CANNOT feel pain. Hard to word. But I think you get my gist.

“Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
Saw that one on the back of a t-shirt at the gym.

“fear is the mind killer”
dune

“everyone here has an iQ over 150”
lady at mensa

“come on ya apes, ya wanna live forever?”
world war sergent

I saw that I will had mine: Get Big or Die tryin

The Only way to build a brick house is one brick at a time.

Are you one of the Destroyers or the Broken?

What does not kill you makes you stronger
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.(
If you’re not getting better than you’re getting worse.

The Journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. (submitted by Barry Marotte)

Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. (submitted by Ron Skolnik)

The only failure in life is the failure to TRY ! (submitted by Kai Yang,Ivan Ng)

Try not. Do or Do not. There is no Try. (the real master,Yoda)

There are never any problems in life only challenges. (submitted by Brian Turpin)

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the HARDCORE just once. (submitted by Andrew Whale)

Failure is not getting knocked down, failure is when you don’t get back
up. (submitted by Nocarbs 189)

Be strong in mind and body… Be part of the brotherhood. (submitted by Micheal Van)

PAIN IS TEMPORARY, PRIDE LASTS FOREVER. . (submitted by Jerrit S)

Show me a good and gracious loser, and I’ll show you a failure. (submitted by Lynn R)

I It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop (submitted by Nancy M)

He who endures, Conquers. (submitted by Jason Conan Smither)

Strength through Pride then Pride through strength. (submitted by Al)

Good things come to those who weight . (submitted by Coach James Wood)

It’s not where you start but where you finish (submitted by Keith Witek)

Know your limitations, then CRUSH them. (submitted by Greg Stluka)

Fear not the iron, for it shall keepeth thine flesh honest. (submitted by David delCaribe)

Second place is the first loser. (submitted by Chris Bishop)

The only easy day was yesterday. (submitted by Randy Howell)

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement. (submitted by David Cable)

Lift untill yours eyes bleed. (submitted by Tank Hughey)

It’s going to hurt the first time and the 100th time. Deal with it! (submitted by HBK)

Lift till bone breaks through the flesh. (submitted by David B)

“May God have mercy upon the iron, because I won’t” (submitted by Dan V)

Limits are for people who have them. (submitted by Gabriel D)

Dont let the spirits of pain conquer the God of Iron . (submitted by Gabriel D)

The minds and muscles of the Brotherhood are to be kept sharp as
the swords of gods. (submitted by Gabriel D)

You will do it.You have no option. (submitted by Gabriel D)

There is no substitute for guts. (submitted by Rob C)

“IF YOU FAIL TO PREPARE YOUR PREPARING TO FAIL” (submitted by Benny D)

F#ck average. F#ck genetics. They’re not part of my religion. (submitted by Jeremy M)

It’s not how many times you get knocked on your a$$, it’s how many times you back off your a$$ and knock them down. (submitted by Bernman7)

Either your growing or your just dying. (submitted by DiRuzzo)

Doing the last rep means battle between mind and weight.Win it! (submitted by Evgeny MItev)

Take the PAIN. (submitted by Douglas L)

Before you start complaing, suck it up and stop your bitching. (submitted by Preston H)

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you,
to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in
tears and to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters - Genghis Khan (submitted by John and Aaron D)

Before you start complaing, suck it up and stop your bitching.(submitted by Preston H)

Don’t do your best. Do what it takes. (submitted by Larry N)

The more you sweat in peace; the less you bleed in war! (submitted by Bart M)

THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS . . . TO CREATE IT. (submitted by Joe)

And God said: get up my son and lift the damn weight. (submitted by Gerardo)

If you can accept losing, You can’t win (submitted by Donovan)

Cowards never get started and the weak die along the way (submitted by Hard Mark)

Be a champion or a wannabe…you decide (submitted by the Great One)

Don’t look at the weight just lift the $hit (submitted by Wilks)

Blood and Iron are the your best resources (submitted by MERK202)

Excuses are for the weak. (submitted by Jeff N)

The wrought iron thinks itself needlessly tortured in the fire, the
tempered steel blade knows why. (submitted by Ian H)

Pain is your friend, the weights are your enemy, determination is your
savior. (submitted by Martin Semenowicz)

Be Charitable…Lift Harder For Those Who Can’t (submitted by Tom S)

Raw and Brutal is the way to go. Lift HARD, Eat RIGHT, SLEEP and you’ll live forever. See you in Valhalla! (submitted by Mark C)

If there is no pain, then you are not trying hard enough. (submitted by Rich W)

Welcome the pain and enjoy gains that come with it. (submitted by Andy A)

Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional. (submitted by B. Bein)

In a world of compromise, some don’t. (submitted by Robert M))

Stand with pride or stand aside. (submitted by Robert M))

Raw and Brutal is the way to go. Lift HARD, eat RIGHT, SLEEP and you’ll live forever. See you in Valhalla! (submitted by Mark C)

Never forget the power that a man can summon from within himself. It is a great power. (submitted by Scott H)

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it! (submitted by Pat C)

We are unique in that we forge our bodies through the fire of our will. (submitted by Tom)

What happens to a man is less important that what happens within him. (submitted by James)

Act As If It Were Impossible To Fail (submitted by David P)

I Have Nothing To Offer But Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat (submitted by David P)

Show Me A Satisfied Man And I Will Show You A Failure (

Failing Doesn’t Make You A Failure, Giving Up Does

Those Who Stand For Nothing Fall For Anything
To Endure Is To Conquer

That says, remember to push hard and have fun, train to success, not to failure, have a good day

STACK

Direct Quotations from the fightclub book:

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~Chapter 2

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. ~Chapter 2

This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. ~Chapter 3

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? ~Chapter 3

One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. ~Chapter 3

And I wasn’t the only slave to my nesting instinct. The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue. ~Chapter 5

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. ~Chapter 5

“If you don’t know what you want,” the doorman said, “you end up with a lot you don’t.” ~Chapter 5

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. ~Chapter 5

I just don’t want to die without a few scars. ~Chapter 6

After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn’t piss you off. ~Chapter 6

It used to be enough that when I came home angry and knowing that my life wasn’t toeing my five-year plan, I could clean my condominium or detail my car. Someday I’d be dead without a scar and there would be a really nice condo and car. ~Chapter 6

Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer… Maybe self-destruction is the answer. ~Chapter 6

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. ~Chapter 6

You aren’t alive anywhere like you’re alive at fight club… Fight club isn’t about winning or losing fights. Fight club isn’t about words. You see a guy come to fight club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood. This guy trusts himself to handle anything. There’s grunting and noise at fight club like at the gym, but fight club isn’t about looking good. There’s hysterical shouting in tongues like at church, and when you wake up Sunday afternoon you feel saved. ~Chapter 6

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. ~Chapter 6

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered. ~Chapter 6

“It’s only after you’ve lost everything,” Tyler says, “that you’re free to do anything.” ~Chapter 8

By this time next week, each guy on the Assault Committee has to pick a fight where he won’t come out a hero. And not in fight club. This is harder than it sounds. A man on the street will do anything not to fight. The idea is to take some Joe on the street who’s never been in a fight and recruit him. Let him experience winning for the first time in his life. Get him to explode. Give him permission to beat the crap out of you. You can take it. If you win, you screwed up. “What we have to do, people,” Tyler told the committee, “is remind these guys what kind of power they still have.” ~Chapter 16

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born. ~Chapter 16

I wanted to burn the Louvre. I’d do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world, now. This is my world, my world, and those ancient people are dead. ~Chapter 16

We wanted to blast the world free of history… picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You’ll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We’ll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what’s left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night. ~Chapter 16

“Recycling and speed limits are bullshit,” Tyler said. “They’re like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.” ~Chapter 16

“Imagine,” Tyler said, “stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you’ll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles.” ~Chapter 16

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. ~Chapter 17

…you’re not how much money you’ve got in the bank. You’re not your job. You’re not your family, and you’re not who you tell yourself… You’re not your name… You’re not your problems… You’re not your age… You are not your hopes. ~Chapter 18

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived… and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. ~Chapter 19

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don’t need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need. ~Chapter 19

We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. ~Chapter 19

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. ~Chapter 19

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world… I am the toxic waste by-product of God’s creation. ~Chapter 23

…when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny’s. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World. ~Chapter 23

Only in death are we no longer part of Project Mayhem. ~Chapter 28

I’ve met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, “Why?” Why did I cause so much pain? Didn’t I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can’t I see how we’re all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God’s got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, “No, that’s not right.” Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can’t teach God anything. ~Chapter 30

My t-shirt “Obsessive is just a word by the lazy to describe the dedicated”

“The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics think their right and wiser men are full of doubts” - Betrand Russell

Obsessive is a word by the lazy to describe the dedicated - My t-shirt I use at my gym

You can be the hammer or the nail.

“Winning tomorrow’s championships means enduring todays practice”

“If IT was easy, everybody would be doing IT” (You supply the IT)

“He who sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother” W. Shakespear

?Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.?

Calvin Coolidge

I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and…

Extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals…

That what can be imagined can be achieved…

That you must dare to dream…

But that there’s no substitute for perseverance and hard work…

And teamwork…

Because no one gets there alone…

And that while we commemorate the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them…

We cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

Scully’s comment to Mulder after receiving a medallion commemorating Apollo 11 - The X Files

“At this moment, as you sit here doing nothing, someone else is training. If you meet, you will lose. Now you must decide if that is an acceptable outcome.”

origin lost…

my favourite (not sure where from, though): We can do this the hard way or the easy way. What will it be?

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat 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 at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, 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

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
-T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

these are a bit long but they do it for me.

SteveO

"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 again in my life. And that is why I SUCCEED.”

-Michael Jordan Poster

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
-Steve Prefontaine

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” - Philippians 4:13 NKJV

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with you might for there is not work or decive nor knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Some nice ones guys.

“If I fall, I’m going to make sure it’s from the biggest f#cking mountain I can find.”

Dunno who said this one, but it always stuck to me.