150 Motivational Workout Quotes to Ignite Your Passion
Staying motivated during workouts can be challenging, but the right words can make all the difference.
That’s why we’ve put together a list of the best motivational workout quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for short and powerful sayings to keep you inspired, we’ve got you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Motivational Workout Quotes
“A goal is a wish. A standard holds you accountable.” —Tunde Oyeneyin
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” —Michael Jordan
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth
“You’ve survived 100 percent of your worst days.” —Robin Arzón
“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” —Jerry Rice
“If something stands between you and your success, move it.” —Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“The hardest part is over. You showed up.” —Jess Sims
“You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps
“Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable.” —Alex Toussaint
“Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.” —Serena Williams
“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.” —Mia Hamm
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” —Albert Camus
“If you think you can’t, change your mind.” —Denis Morton
“The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus.” —Bruce Lee
“All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.” —Tony Robbins
“The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow.” —Tunde Oyeneyin
“Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.” —Gene Tunney
“Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.” —Rafael Nadal
“The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph.’” —Marvin Phillips
“Acknowledge the fear and do it anyway.” —Emma Lovewell
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
“Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but because of lack of commitment.” —Vince Lombardi
“The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations.” —Michael K. Williams
“I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn’t exist.” —Shaquille O’Neal
“When I feel tired, I just think about how great I will feel once I finally reach my goal.” —Michael Phelps
“I am. I can. I will. I do.” —Christine D’Ercole
“Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.” —Jack LaLanne
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” —Oprah Winfrey
“What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. … Success is often just around the corner.” —James Dyson
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” —Muhammad Ali
“Never give up because great things take time.” —Adrian Williams
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” —Jesse Owens
“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” —Audrey Hepburn
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
“The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible.” —Mike Horn
“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” —Mary Tyler Moore
“Treat your body like someone you love.” —Hannah Corbin
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” —Steve Prefontaine
“If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you’re really not ready to be successful.” —Kevin Hart
“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will.” —Venus Williams
“Be savage, not average.” —Cody Rigsby
“If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like?” —Steph Curry
“The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.” —Alexander Graham Bell
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
“Your passion will propel you.” —Alex Toussaint
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” —Stephen King
“Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.” —Mark Cuban
“Your mind is your strongest muscle.” —Tunde Oyeneyin
Gym Quotes
“Increased physical activity enhances positive energy” — Lailah Gifty Akita
“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” — Edward Stanley
“Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don’t mind, so it doesn’t matter.” — Adam Hargreaves
“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.” — Richard Marcinko
“The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.” — Mark Rippetoe
“Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body — so be kind to it.” — Elaine Moran
“The real workout starts when you want to stop.” — Ronnie Coleman
“If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.” — Bret Contreras
“I don’t believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn’t have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.” — Steve Reeves
“In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.” — Rich Froning Jr
“Don’t be scared to LIFT HEAVY! You won’t get huge and bulky, you’ll just get amazing.” — Jessie Hilgenberg
“Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it!” — Eric Thomas
“When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.” — Bill Loguidice
“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
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” — Lance Armstrong
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“There’s no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard, and aim to be the best.” — Ronnie Coleman
“You shall gain, but you shall pay with sweat, blood, and vomit.” — Pavel Tsatsouline
“To be number one, you have to train like you’re number two.” — Maurice Green
“People laugh and call me lazy, while they twit around in their three-hour workout making zero progress. Sometimes, instead of what you do in the weight room, it’s what you don’t do that will lead to success.” — Jim Wendler
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” — Tommy Lasorda
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” — Muhammad Ali
“Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.” — Ovid
“The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment.” — Justin Langer
“No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.” — Bill Phillips
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The gym was originally the domain of jocks, weightlifters, and basketball and football players. Today due to a heightened national awareness of fitness the gym is part of the daily routine for millions of Americans.” — Nan Marshall
“If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.” — Joey Adams
“I have to exercise in the morning, before my brain figures out what I’m doing.” — Marsha Doble
“An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour of treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.” — David Walters
“A man who drinks in a healthy, fit, and self-approving manner will mix vodka with yogurt and get tangled in the Nautilus machine trying to kiss his own ass.” — P.J. O’Rourke
“People come to the gym to enhance their looks and health or simply to enjoy the activity and improve their quality of life.” — Yigal Pinchas
“The gym is a protected artificial environment that can be accessible to all exercises at all times and under all conditions.” — Yigal Pinchas
“The gym is also the ideal place for those ‘loners’ who come to work out rather than to develop social ties.” — Yigal Pinchas
“Now that I am in the gym, though interestingly I still choose the group exercise studio within the gym, I am there so frequently that it has become almost a second home to me.” — Shari Dworkin
“At the end of each of those hectic days as I do on most workdays, I would eagerly look forward to lifting weights or do aerobics with my woman friends at the gym.” — Jo Malin
“Fitness is something that happens to you while you’re practising good technique.” — Terry Laughlin
“I have been in some schools in which the teachers call physical education, ‘gym,’ even when the school had no gymnasium.” — Charmain Sutherland
“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In gym class, learning involves both your brain and your body. It teaches your body how to move.” — Darlene R. Stille
“What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow.” — Jay Cutler
“Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.” — Michelle Obama
“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
“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
“The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.” — Luke Evans
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“It’s going to be a journey. It’s not a sprint to get in shape.” — Kerri Walsh Jennings
“Going to the gym was never about ‘working out’ like it is for most people. To me, It was a matter of life or death. It was either me or the weights-and I was going to win. I’ve always had that competitive streak, whether it was in the gym, on the stage, or In anything else I did.” — Rich Gaspari
“When people tell me they can’t afford to join a gym, I tell them to go outside; planet Earth is a gym and we’re already members. Run, climb, sweat, and enjoy all of the natural wonders that are available to you.” — Steve Maraboli
“Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.” — Greg Plitt
“When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ Tomorrow is a disease.” — V.L. Allinea
“A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time — pills or stairs.” — Joan Welsh
“Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.” — George Sheehan
“Fitness — if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.” — Cher
“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
“Total physical fitness is a positive state of well-being bringing about sufficient strength and energy to participate in a full, active lifestyle.” — Karen S. Mazzeo
Gym Workout Motivation Sayings
Pushing limits, surpassing boundaries
Loving the process, celebrating progress
Pushing through the pain, embracing the gain
Stop thinking, start doing.
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever.
Never not training.
Finding strength in every step of the journey
Sweat now, shine later.
From good to great, achieving personal greatness
Leveling up!
Work hard, play harder.
Progressing beyond what I thought was possible
No shortcuts, just hard work & determination
Strong and determined, no excuses
It’s not sweat, it’s the post-workout glow.
Iron therapy
Fitness is a marathon, not a sprint.
Building muscle, forging resilience
Fueling my body, empowering my mind
In honor of a workout well done.
Sore today, stronger tomorrow.
Growing and glowing.
One rep at a time
Determination fuels my workouts, progress fuels my motivation
Fitness is not a destination, it’s a way of life
Train hard or remain the same.
Embracing the burn, earning my gains
Proud of my personal best
This is what we call growth.
Working on me, for me.
Your future self will thank you.
Surpassing yesterday’s best
Trust the process.
Breaking barriers, setting new records
How you do anything is how you do everything.
Pushing my limits, unlocking new strength
I live for the sweat
Celebrating my progress
Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.
Rise and grind
Work for it.
Better every day.
Setting the bar higher
Building my body, one workout at a time
Post-workout flex.
Sweating it out
Work. Train. Repeat.
Fitness is my therapy
Lifting heavy, becoming stronger
Sweat, sacrifice, success
