We can all use some great fitness quotes to get us pumped up for our next gym workout. If you want weight loss, eating healthy or just simple fitness motivation, we have a saying that can help inspire you to reach your fitness goals. Check out these sayings below and get pumped up.
Exercise Quotations
People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that’s the problem.
Chris Adams
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adams
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ Tomorrow is disease.
V.L. Allinea
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
Neil Armstrong
If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise.
Author Unknown
Yesterday you said tomorrow.
Author Unknown
You’re only one workout away from a good mood.
Author Unknown
Slow progress is better than no progress.
Author Unknown
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Author Unknown
The best project you’ll ever work on is YOU!
Author Unknown
Be Your Best Self
The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!
Author Unknown
Commit to be fit.
Author Unknown
Thinking about going to the gym burns between 0 and 0 calories.
Author Unknown
Everything you need is already inside.
Author Unknown
The only bad workout is the one you didn’t do.
Author Unknown
The body achieves what the mind believes.
Author Unknown
Eat clean, train dirty.
Author Unknown
To feel ‘fit as a fiddle’, you must tone down your middle.
Author Unknown
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
Author Unknown
Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises that help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps.
Author Unknown
Funny Fitness Sayings
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning ‘ability to,’ and bics, meaning ‘withstand tremendous boredom.’
Dave Barry
My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
Phyllis Diller
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
Mark Twain
Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
George Sheehan
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time — pills or stairs.
Joan Welsh
Motivational Workout Quotes
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
Hugh Blair
If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
Eubie Blake
Fitness — if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
Cher
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
Chinese Proverb
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Charles Caleb Colton
We do not stop exercising because we grow old — we grow old because we stop exercising.
Dr. Kenneth Cooper
Fitness Inspiration
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon.
Ellen DeGeneres
The first wealth is health.
Emerson
I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
Chauncey Depew
Inspirational Health
Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
Earl of Derby
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
Marsha Doble
The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Ken Doherty
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Thomas Fuller
The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
Erin Gray
Tip: Use these sayings as inspiration. Hang in your locker, on the fridge, or on your bulletin board.
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Motivational Fitness
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Ernest Hemingway
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
Hippocrates
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Hippocrates
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
Inspirational Quotes
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out.
Norman Mailer
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A.A. Milne
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
Jean Paul
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
Joseph Pilate
Health and Fitness
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
Plato
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Plutarch
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
Thomas de Quincey
Workout Quotations
To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Sugar Ray Robinson
The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, ‘If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it jumping up and down.”
Rita Rudner
Processed foods not only extend the shelf life, but they extend the waistline as well.
Karen Sessions
I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
Alec Yuill Thornton
Health Quotations
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.
David Walters
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.
Carol Welch
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