Greg Plitt was a motivational legend who had quite the inspirational journey. He was a bodybuilder, actor, speaker, model and American Army Ranger. During his infamous career, Greg would push his body to its physical limits because he believed that he had none. Since his untimely death, Greg’s words of wisdom have resonated with millions through his youtube videos, workouts, and motivational sayings.

Here are 53 of Greg Plitt’s most powerful quotes:

1. “Second by second you lose the opportunity to become the person you want to be. Take charge of your life.”  – Greg Plitt

2. “Every action has a purpose. When every action has a purpose every action has a result.” – Greg Plitt

3. “You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that you want others to remember you for later.” – Greg Plitt

4. “Life isn’t about waiting the storm to pass. It’s about dancing in the rain.” – Greg Plitt

5. “Opportunities don’t come knocking on the door. They present themselves when you knock the f*#king door down.” – Greg Plitt

6. “Today begins, tomorrow continues, and it never ends until you reach your goal.” – Greg Plitt

7. “You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.” – Greg Plitt

8. “In life, it’s not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it’s the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That’s the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That’s the guy you guys need to be.” – Greg Plitt

9. “The pump is one of the better highs in life. You don’t need to shoot up for it, you don’t need to snort it. All you’ve got to do it sweat for it.” – Greg Plitt

10. “The real tragedy in life isn’t someone who hasn’t achieved their goal, it’s the person that never had a goal to begin with.” – Greg Plitt

11. “Go for it! You know what? This comfort zone is f****ng dangerous zone. It’s stopping you from your true potential!” – Greg Plitt

12. “There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the pain of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure, the harder it becomes to accept the thought of failure.” – Greg Plitt

13. “When you help yourself, you feel good. But when you help somebody else get back on their feet, it’s a high that no chemical drug can ever match. It’s the greatest high in the world. It’s addictive, it’s contagious, and the world needs more of it.” – Greg Plitt

14. “If you mentally believe it will happen, your body is going to find a way to make it physically happen.” – Greg Plitt

15. “Your legs are not giving out. Your head is giving up.” – Greg Plitt

16. “You are what you do repeatedly. If excellence is something you’re striving for, then it’s not an accident. It’s a habit.” – Greg Plitt

17. “I love the mentality that when push comes to shove, simply work harder and the results will come.” – Greg Plitt

18. “If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on earth, a depreciating asset. Don’t waste another moment of life where you are not at  your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life.” – Greg Plitt

19. “Bet on yourself. If you bet on yourself you’ll never lose.” – Greg Plitt “Once you known where your current limits are, then you know how to destroy them, push them… grow them.” – Greg Plitt

20. “Belief, confidence in yourself. The world’s your playground. Limitless. My question is… will you be remembered?” – Greg Plitt

21. “It’s early in the morning and your competition is still sleeping.” – Greg Plitt

22. “If tomorrow doesn’t happen, would you still do what you’re about to do today? If that answer is no, you’re alive, but you’re not living.” – Greg Plitt

23. “Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.” – Greg Plitt

24. “If you guys are really wondering if you are burning out mentally. Take a day off and go to your local hospital. Go to the cancer wing. Look at 4-year-old, who won’t ever see their teenage years, probably won’t ever see their next birthday. Go and see someone who is mentally or physically retarded, or see when a soldier who just came back from war who doesn’t have legs anymore. Stare that guy down. Look him right in the eyes and tell them, as you stand there with 2 capable legs, that you burned out. That you don’t want to use them. See if that doesn’t kill him right there. Because he would do anything to have that opportunity.” – Greg Plitt

25. “The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.” – Greg Plitt

26. “The difference between a winner and a loser – they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until it goes his way.” – Greg Plitt

27. “I failed” is 10 times the man than “what if” because “what if” never went to the arena. – Greg Plitt

28. “The clock is ticking, are you becoming the person you wanna be?” – Greg Plitt

29. “The road to success is a very lonely road. You’re not gonna see too many friends. It’s only you with your shadow. Once you get there, many people will love you, also many people will hate you. Because your success is a huge spotlight, shining on their failures.” – Greg Plitt

30. “Today it begins. Tomorrow it continues. And it never ends, until you reach your goal and cross the finish line.” – Greg Plitt

31. “One Hour of pain produces a lifetime of pride.” – Greg Plitt

32. “Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we learn and grow from the past, never resting upon previous achievements or allowing past failure to paralyze us in our current endeavor. All that was has created us to be the best we currently are for our greatest hour is about to arise!” – Greg Plitt

33. “That’s not normal, because we don’t want to be normal. Normal is what weak people call it living. I call it death.” – Greg Plitt

34. “Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground.” – Greg Plitt

35. “Legends never die.” – Greg Plitt

36. “We don’t live forever… Our legacy does.”– Greg Plitt

37. “Success can never identify who you are. You must always identify it. You cannot allow the failures to identify who you are.”– Greg Plitt

38. “Our desire is the warmth in our life, it’s not a blanket.”– Greg Plitt

39. “Don’t let the clock run your life, guys. The internal clock is always on, always beating. That’s the heart-beat for champion. 9 to 5, is not your hours operation. The only thing that we guarantee is the intake and outtake of our breathes we have, right now! Don’t just pass that along, procrastinate to next day’s endeavor. Do it now man. So next day you get further further ahead.”– Greg Plitt

40. “When you find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you.” – Greg Plitt

41. “If you can mentally see the end of the journey, then your body will physically find a way to achieve that goal.” – Greg Plitt

42. “Face your fears, endure its pain and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams.”– Greg Plitt

43. “If you can mentally see the end of the journey, then your body will physically find a way to achieve that goal.”– Greg Plitt

44. “Life is a plan of action, if you don’t have a plan, someone is going to use you as part of their plan.”– Greg Plitt

45. “Having the will to win is everything.” – Greg Plitt

46. “Your legs are not giving out. Your head is giving up.”– Greg Plitt

47. “You got one life to live. Why wait until tomorrow to start it?”– Greg Plitt

48. “Success doesn’t know these things about cold or early or tired. It just knows if you showed up or not.”– Greg Plitt

49. “The hardest things in life are done the least but provide the most.”– Greg Plitt

50. “I keep going till that pain says hello to me, I don’t say goodbye until that pain says hello. That’s a good set.”– Greg Plitt

51. “Your body is the house you force to live in for the rest of your life. You don’t get to sell, you don’t get foreclosure, you can’t do a quick sale. All you can do is to modify and improve it. Or you can tarnish it. One house to live in, man. What kind of house do you want to live in?”– Greg Plitt

52. “Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.”– Greg Plitt

53. “When you find that burns during your lift, that’s the heat of transformation. That’s what changes everything for you. Don’t be so anxious to finish the set, once you get the burns, dwelling in it as long as you can. The longer that burns stay, the more changes you gonna have. That burn states will get you from where you are to where you want to be.”– Greg Plitt

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