Whether you’re a seasoned gym rat or just starting your fitness journey, a little inspiration can go a long way.
These 100 fitness quotes offer a powerful dose of motivation, wisdom, and humor to keep you going.
From overcoming challenges to celebrating small victories, these words from athletes, celebrities, and everyday fitness enthusiasts will help you find the strength to push yourself further, embrace a healthy lifestyle, and achieve your personal best.
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 a 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
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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 Quotes
- All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
Michael John Bobak - Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.
Kobe Bryant - Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer - I hate every minute of training. But I said, ‘Don’t quit.’ Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali - The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Fitness Journey
- A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.
Jack Dempsey - The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee - Exercise should be regarded as a tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney - The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda - When I feel tired, I just think about how great I will feel once I finally reach my goal.
Michael Phelps
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Motivational Workout Quotes for Personal Trainers
- 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
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Inspirational Insights — Fitness Quotes
- 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 Quotations
- 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
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Motivational Fitness Quotes
- 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 a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there. You must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
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Inspirational Fitness 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 Quotes
- 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 - Hustle for that muscle.
Unknown
Workout Gems — Fitness Quotes
- 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 - Good things come to those who sweat.
Unknown - Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.
Unknown - The muscle and the mind must become one. One without the other is zero.
Lee Haney - In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.
Rich Froning Jr., Four-time CrossFit Games Champion
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 - Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun - Exercise should be regarded as a tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney
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Positive Attitude Fitness Quotes
- Don’t count the days; make the days count.
Muhammad Ali - Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi - The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.;
Confucius - The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda - Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow, I can accomplish what others can’t.
Jerry Rice - We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle - You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky - The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain - The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
Marvin Phillips
Get Fit Quotes
- Take care of your body; it’s the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn - Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
Sean Patrick Flanery - The last three or four reps are what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack: having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - You can either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Jim Rohn - Sweat is fat crying.
Unknown - One workout at a time. One day at a time. One meal at a time.
Chalene Johnson - If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson - Your health account and your bank account are the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.
Jack LaLanne - When you hit failure, your workout has just begun.
Ronnie Coleman - To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
Gene Tunney
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By Mike O’Halloran
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