110 Motivational Fitness Quotes to Power Your Workout (2022)

Whether you’re lost, trying to embark on your fitness journey or looking for encouragement as you struggle to meet your next goal, fitness quotes can help you power through negative space.

Workout and fitness quotes offer bite-sized sources of inspiration that can help you maximize your motivation so that you can convince yourself to head to the gym. In this article, we’ve put together the best gym quotes so you can always find the strength within you to give it your all. Especially when it comes to really tough workouts, you might need an extra dose of encouragement to make it through.

We’ve complied only the best motivational exercise quotes, for those grueling sessions that push your body and mind the hardest. Plus, love the skin you’re currently in with body positive quotes that can help you achieve your best fitness level while appreciating the figure you’ve been given.

These workout quotes are the mental food you need before every workout! So save this page and come back every time you need a motivation snack.

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Workout Quotes
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Keep Pushing Quotes
Leg Day Quotes
Bodybuilding Quotes
Morning Workout Quotes
Getting Fit Quotes
Muscle Quotes
Stretching Quotes
Abs Quotes

Workout Quotes

1. “Strength does not come from the physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Ghandi
2. “The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.” – Marvin Phillips
3. “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” — Jerry Rice
4. “Sweat is fat crying.” — Unknown
5. “You’re only one workout away from a good mood.” — Unknown
6. “Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou
7. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” —Mahatma Gandhi
8. “Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.” — Unknown
9. “Create healthy habits, not restrictions.” — Unknown
10. Don’t let the scale define you. Be active, be healthy, be happy.” — Unknown
11. “It’s going to be a journey. It’s not a sprint to get in shape.” — Kerri Walsh Jennings
12. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” — Unknown
13. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison

Gym Quotes

14. “It’s challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.” – Joely Fisher
15. “You can’t be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.” – Hank Stram

Body Positive Quotes

16. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
17. “To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” – Ellen Degeneres
18. “Every piece of you is a burst of beautiful.” – Unknown
19. “I do not need permission to feel glorious.” – Unknown
20. “Your body, your rules. Do not let society screw you up!” – Unknown
21. “You are still you whether you are 190 or 90 pounds. Your soul still lives in the same house.” – Michelle K
22. “If you don’t know how to show yourself kindness when you’re a size 18, you won’t know how to do it wearing a size 4.” – Unknown
23. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.” –Sophia Bush
24. “You’re a work of art, not everybody will understand you, but the ones that do will never forget about you.” – Amber Ibarreche
25. “Life is so much more beautiful than a number on a scale.” – Tess Munster
26. “Another person’s beauty is not the absence of your own.” – Unknown
27. “Health is different for every body at a different size.” – Crystal Renn
28. “Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Our goal should be health and stamina.” – Emme
29. “You were born, as you, for a reason.” — Sophia Bush
30. “Treat your body like an instrument, not an ornament.”― Gary Thomas

Funny Exercise Quotes

31. “My brain cells, skin cells and hair cells continue to die, but my fat cells seem to have an eternal life.” – Anonymous
32. “Exercise? I thought you said extra fries!” – Anonymous
33. “My favorite exercise at the gym would probably be judging.” – Anonymous
34. “Are you fat and ugly? Join our gym and just be ugly!” – Local gym sign
35. “When people ask me if I exercise I tell them I do crunches every day – especially Captain Crunch and Nestle Crunch” – Unknown
36. Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. – Robert M. Hutchins
37. I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happier with buns of cinnamon.- Ellen DeGeneres
38. The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, its too far to walk back. – Franklin P. Jones
39. I don’t get why people pay to exercise in a GYM when it’s FREE to not exercise.- Bridger Winegar
40. “When I Exercise, I Wear All Black. It’S Like A Funeral For My Fat” – Unknown
41. “Lifting and eating my two favorite things in life.” —Unknown
42. “I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.” —Alec Yuill Thornton
43. “That’s not sweat on your face it’s fat crying.” —Unknown
44. “If you still look cute after the gym, you didn’t workout hard enough.” —Unknown
45. “You aren’t going to get the but you want by sitting on the one you have.” – Unknown

Keep Pushing Quotes

46. “If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up.” — Unknown
47. “When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.” —Unknown
48. ‘It’s not about being the strongest, it’s about consistency” – Unknown
49. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
50. “Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”- John Wooden
51. “It is exercise alone that supports these spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.” – Cicero
52. “Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.” – Mike Tyson
53. “At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.” – Jillian Michaels
54. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
55. “The best day to start exercising is today. Tomorrow can turn into weeks, months or years.” – Mark Dilworth
56. “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!”- Jillian Michaels
57. “A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.” – Jack Dempsey
58. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
59. “Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.” – Julius Irving
60. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

Leg Day Quotes

61. “Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.” – Thomas Jefferson
62. “Everyday is a good day when you run.” – Unknown
63. “Running is cheaper than therapy” – Unknown
64. “Someone busier than you is running right now” – Unknown
65. “I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.”- Ronald Rook
66. “Life is too short to skip leg day” – Gymaholic

Bodybuilding Quotes

67. “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they worked on it every single day.” – Anonymous
68. “A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.” – Florence Griffith Joyner
69. “Practice puts brains in your muscles.” – Sam Snead
70. “Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy weights.” – Ronnie Coleman
71. “Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.” – Unknown
72. “To be a champion, you must act like a champion.” – Lou Ferrigno
73. “When you hit failure, your workout has just begun.” – Ronnie Coleman
74. “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
75. “If you aren’t begging for rest. Then you aren’t training your best.” – Unknown
76. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
77. “There is no strength without struggle.” – Unknown
78. “You don’t find will power, you create it.” – Unknown
79. “It never gets easier. You just get stronger.” – Unknown
80. “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it.” – Les Brown

Morning Workout Quotes

82. “Exercise in the morning, before your brain figures out what you are doing.” – Unknown
83. “ When I workout early in the morning, the rest of the day feels so much better.” – Robert Cheeke
84. “Happiness is the feeling after an early morning workout.” – Unknown
85. “Wake Up. Work Out. Look Hot. Kick Butt.” – Unknown
86. “The more mornings I roll out of bed early, the closer I am to my goals.” – Unknown
87. “Get up every morning and tell yourself I can do this!” – Unknown

Getting Fit Quotes

88. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Anonymous
89. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” —Unknown
90. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” —Tommy Lasorda
91. “Fitness helps me think better, feel better, and move better.” – Jason Winston George

Muscle Quotes

92. “You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.” – Pastor Maldonado
93. “It’s so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back.” – Alex Morgan
94. “Fitness is not an option. It’s part of my job.” – Allison Sweeney
95. “Fitness has nothing to do with age.” – Virender Sehwag
96. “Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!” – Lauren Conrad
97. “Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.” – Fred Perry
98. “Exercise is labor without weariness.” – Samuel Johnson
99. “ Fitness is not about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be.– Khloe Kardashian
100. “ The ultimate goal is isn’t to look fit. It’s to be fit.” – Unknown
101. “Get fit for life. Not just for summer.” – Unknown
102. “Commit to be fit.” – Unknown

Stretching Quotes

103. “Even if you don’t have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body.” – Erin Heatherton
104. “You are only as young as your spine is flexible.” – Joseph Pilates
105. “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” – Michael McGriffy M.D
106. “Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed.”- Jason Kravits
107. “Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.” – Deborah Day

  Abs Quotes

108. “The best ab exercise is 5 sets of stop eating so much junk food.” – Unknown
109. “Just because I don’t show six-pack abs doesn’t mean that I don’t have them.” – Abhishek Bachchan
110. “To some it’s a six-pack, to me it’s a “support group”. Salvation in a can! – Leo Durocher

Conclusion

Ready to pump that iron or hit the treadmill? Get started while the motivation and inspiration are still fresh in your mind! At the very least, map out your workouts for the next week. Then, come back and read through your favorite workout quotes before you exercise.

These keep pushing quotes are here to help you reach your full fitness potential. Tell us how they’ve helped you in the comments below!