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Iron sharpens Iron. King Solomon Raise your mental horizons. Use the power of your mind to push you to handle poundages you once only dreamt about. Reg Park My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, situation excellent. I am attacking. Ferdinand Foch That which does not destroy me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche Perseverance, patience and determination will be repaid in untold wealth, health, strength, self-reliance and fortitude. Now get out there and trainyou can do it, because it has been done before by people of all sizes and abilities! George F. Jowett Keep progressing and growing and striving, after all, thats what life is all about. Constantly see yourself in your minds eye doing MORE than you currently do. Aim to be all that you can be. Carry the hard lessons of self conquest and discipline that you learn in your training into every facet of your life. Bradley J. Steiner Time and I against any other two. Beltazar Gracian Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden The will I should call that incessant inward impulse which spurs one on to the goal. The determination to become strong is indispensable for success, ... All prominent strong men have fostered their strength by the aid of a strong will-power; they wanted to become strong and consequently succeeded. You must have faith in your ability to make yourself strong. Banish all your said or miserable thoughts, and keep on with your physical training, without ever thinking for one moment that you might not succeed. Dont accuse nature, she has fulfilled her task; you must fulfill yours. Concentrate your mind upon the idea of acquiring health and strength. It is a well-known fact that the majority of men today are relatively weak. George Hackenschmidt I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. Albert Camus There is no failure except in no longer trying. Elbert Hubbard It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. We live in an age of great events and little men. Never flinch, never weary, never despair. You must never make a promise which you do not fulfill. Sir Winston Churchill In the battle of life if is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have done better. 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, because there is not effort without error and shortcoming; who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end 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 have tasted neither victory nor defeat.

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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." Mahatma Gandhi "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." Thomas Paine "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." Calvin Coolidge "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." Phillips Brooks "Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used." Richard E. Byrd "Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength." Henry Ward Beecher "Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get." Elbert Hubbard "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions." J. F. Clarke The Lord shall renew their strength; They shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isaiah 40:31 "Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus "When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes." Joseph Campbell "He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without." Goethe "God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them." Pusey "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt "This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive." Robert W. Service "Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish." Cecile Springer "Where there is no struggle, there is no strength." Oprah Winfrey "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." Rabindranath Tagore Train like God is watching. -unknown To sculpt you must first have concrete. -unknown You can never achieve great success without great exertion-unknown "The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."-Arnold "I don't have time to lift, I make time" unknown "Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no HEAVY WEIGHT!" Ronald Coleman "Intensity builds immensity" - Kevin Levrone Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. -Steve Prefontaine ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''-unknown Right now someone out there is getting bigger, make that person you-unknown Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague Take arrows in your forehead, but never in back. - Samurai maxim

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"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. "We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same" -Carlos Castaneda "It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog" -Mark Twain "The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just they'll go through the pain no matter what happens" -Arnold Schwarzenegger "You're never beaten until you admit it" -General George Patton "Let up for a second and that is where you will finish" -unknown "Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness" -Daisaku Ikeda Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max. Jim Conroy, Olympic Weightlifting Coach Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. Mark Rippetoe