Gym inspiration: 12 amazing inspirational quotes to take to your workout with you! :

Bodybuilders have their dark days, the can-hardly-get-out-of-bed-never-mind-deadlift-200lbs days.

We know this, and we know this is where mental strength is every bit as important as physical strength.

This is where we tell ourselves that this is important, that building those quads, tightening that butt, trimming that waist, fighting for that hardbody, it all requires character and grit and dertermination.

But we could always use a little extra help.

That's where our FemaleBodybuilders24.com handy guide to inspirational quotes comes in!

Who knew some of the greatest geniuses in history were all talking about female iron-pumpers!

Train hard!

Top 12 Words of inspiration for all female bodybuilders, female fitness trainers, bikini, figure and any woman who pumps iron to build a better body and a better future.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. – William Saroyan

Some women die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75. — Benjamin Franklin

Most women are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde

Great spirits (and great physiques!) have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein

Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been. — John Greenleaf Whittier

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but my desire to pack on more muscle lives on. — John F. Kennedy

Every woman dies, but not every woman truly lives. — William Wallace

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. — Plato

Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go. ― Oscar Wilde

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. ― John Lennon

Everybody has greatness. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ― Albert Einstein