Our workout quotes are here to inspire and motivate people. Hopefully, they will inspire you to achieve the goals you have always wanted to achieve. A healthy body harbors a healthy mind.
Whatever your calling or background, exercise should be a part of your life. It will affect different aspects of your life and encourage you to become a hard worker. Whether you’re losing weight, building strength, gaining muscle, or building stamina, these fitness motivation quotes will help you reach your goals.
Share these sayings with whomever you work out with for the best results. Exercise, rinse, repeat.
Working Out Quotations
- The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but instead will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas Edison - You’re only one workout away from a good mood.
Unknown - Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
Jerry Rice
Funny Workout Quotes
- If you want to get in shape, go to the gym every single day, change your clothes, and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you’ll start doing something while you’re there.
Seth Godin - I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
Unknown - Gym Rule #1: If you want to know the correct way to perform an exercise, the answer is: Whatever hurts most.
Jason Love - The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.
Franklin P. Jones - America has got to be the only country in the world where people need energy drinks to sit in front of a computer.
Mike Vanatta - The only reason I would take up jogging is so I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck - Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Evan Esar - Whenever I feel like exercising, I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
Humorous Workout Quotations
- I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
Oscar Wilde - The only exercise I get is when I take the studs out of one shirt and put them in another.
Ring Lardner – Check out more Ring Lardner quotes. - 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
Funny Gym Quotes
- Exercise? I thought you said extra fries!
Unknown - I lift weights, but my true strength lies in my ability to avoid cardio.
Unknown - The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon - My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.
Unknown
Inspirational Health and Fitness Quotes
- Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but it WILL pay off, and it WILL be worth it.
Jillian Michaels - Don’t wait until you’ve reached your goal to be proud of yourself. Be proud of every step you take toward reaching that goal.
Unknown - 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 - We must appreciate and never underestimate our own inner power.
Noah Galloway - The last three or four reps are what make the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryan - Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightingale.
Every workout counts
- The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.
Unknown - There’s no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard, and aim to be the best.
Ronnie Coleman - If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
Motivational Fitness Quotes
These are favorite quotes of personal trainers>
- Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn - Some quit due to slow progress. Never grasping the fact that slow progress… is progress.
Unknown - All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou - Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen. Together you have a kingdom.
Jack LaLanne - All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
Michael John Bobak - Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
Ovid - The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph’.
Marvin Phillips - Keep working even when no one is watching.
Alex Morgan - Create healthy habits, not restrictions.
Unknown - It’s going to be a journey. It’s not a sprint to get in shape.
Kerri Walsh Jennings - The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph’.
Unknown
Exercise Sayings
- Ain’t nothing to it but to do it.
- Go hard or go home.
- Squat till you puke.
- Eat big, Lift big, get big!
- Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but nobody wanna lift heavy weights.
- Train hard, so they have to dig deeper than 6 feet into the ground.
- If the bar ain’t bending, you‘re just pretending.
- Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when footprints are on the moon.
- You can’t flex fat, so shut up and lift.
- No pain, no gain!
- I got 99 problems, but the bench ain’t one.
- A winner never whines.
Health Quotes
- The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun - Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley - I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
Muhammad Ali - When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful, and anything is possible.
Camille Leblanc-Bazinet - It is exercise alone that supports the spirits and keeps the mind in vigor.
Cicero - I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.
J.J. Watt - Most people give up right before the big break comes—don’t let that person be you.
Michael Boyle - To change your body, you must first change your mind.
Unknown - Sore today; strong tomorrow.
Unknown - You’re going to have to let it hurt. Let it suck. The harder you work, the better you will look. Your appearance isn’t parallel to how heavy you lift, it’s parallel to how hard you work.
Joe Manganiello - Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
Sylvester Stallone
Training Insights
These are some of our favorite workout quotes.
- Once you are exercising regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
Erin Gray - Fit is not a destination, but a way of life.
Unknown - Inspiration can come from anywhere. Please take it.
Unknown - Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow.
Vincent Williams Sr. - The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain - Exercise should be regarded as a tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney - The greatest pleasure you’ll ever have is doing what others tell you you couldn’t.
Walter Bagehot - You have to push past your perceived limits, push past that point you thought was as far as you can go.
Drew Brees - Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
Motivational Quotes
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong - You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretzky - If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson - When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.
Unknown - The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda - Success doesn’t work overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don’t look back.
Erin Andrews - If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
Thomas Jefferson - If you ain’t pissed off for greatness, that just means you’re okay with being mediocre.
Ray Lewis - Your mind will quit 100 times before your body ever does.
Unknown - To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine - To keep winning, I have to keep improving.
Craig Alexander
Gym Quotes
Here are some short workout quotes.
- Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Unknown - If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.
Fred DeVito - No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.
Unknown - Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I hope these motivational workout quotes help you stay on top of your fitness goals.
By Mike O’Halloran
Founder and Editor, Sports Feel Good Stories
Mike O’Halloran founded Sports Feel Good Stories in 2009. He co-authored four trivia books for kids under the Smart Attack line. Mike coached basketball for 15 seasons, taught tennis, and has written four books on basketball coaching. He has been a contributing writer for USA Football, the youth arm of the NFL. Mike is the founder of the Fantasy Football Team Names Hall of Fame.
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