Muscle Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old muscle quotes, muscle sayings, and muscle proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. Jane Yolen
To make a muscle grow, you must force it to go beyond its capabilities. The most potent way to apply that force is to train to failure. Training to failure means...the muscles are forced to grow stronger and bigger Nasser El Sonbaty
The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect. Bruce Lee
The myosin in our own skeletal muscles is more closely related to the myosin driving the flight muscles of that irritating housefly buzzing around your head than it is to the myosin in the muscles of your own sphincters Nick Lane
Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness. Arlene Dahl
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse. Price Pritchett
Exercise your creative muscles all the time--either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening--staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them. Tom Irwin
Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. And that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If you can't go through it, forget it. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals. Joseph Pilates
Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion. Pete Egoscue