101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes to Fuel Your Best Performance at the Gym

We understand that finding the drive to exercise can be a challenge at times, but fear not! These inspirational quotes have been carefully curated to empower you, push your limits, and remind you of the incredible strength that resides within you.

Whether you’re a seasoned fitness enthusiast or just beginning your journey toward a healthier lifestyle, these quotes are here to accompany you every step of the way. From legendary athletes like Muhammad Ali to renowned philosophers like Aristotle, we’ve gathered the wisdom of those who have harnessed the power of determination, discipline, and perseverance in their own lives.

Picture this: as you tackle the weights, conquer the treadmill, or power through a challenging yoga session, these words of encouragement and inspiration will serve as your personal cheerleaders. They will echo in your mind, reminding you of your incredible potential and the amazing transformation that awaits you.

So, let this collection of 101 workout quotes serve as your daily dose of motivation. Explore them, internalize their essence, and let them infuse your workouts with a renewed sense of purpose. We encourage you to find the quotes that resonate with you the most and keep them close by, whether on your phone, gym bag, or even written on a sticky note in your locker.

Remember, fitness is not just about sculpting your body; it’s about building resilience, self-belief, and mental fortitude. Allow these quotes to inspire and propel you toward your fitness goals, turning each workout into an opportunity for growth and self-discovery.

Are you ready to revolutionize your gym experience? Let’s dive into our collection of 101 workout quotes that will motivate, inspire, and empower you on your journey to becoming the best version of yourself!

I hope you enjoy these workout motivation quotes when working out at the gym…

101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes - "A year from now you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb

1) “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

2) “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

3) “If you’re afraid of failure, you don’t deserve success.” – Nastia Liukin

4) “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

5) “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

6) “You are one workout away from a better mood” – Unknown

7) “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid

8) “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

9) “When the day comes when you don’t believe in yourself there’s the door, get the hell out.” – John Cena

Reach for your dreams…

101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes - "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

10) “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

11) “A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.” – Jack Dempsey

12) “When you have a clear vision of your goal, it’s easier to take the first step toward it.” – LL Cool J

13) “The clock is ticking. Are you becoming the person you want to be?” – Greg Plitt

14) “Dead last finish is greater than did not finish, which trumps did not start.” – Unknown

15) “Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” –Lowell Thomas

16) “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

17) “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

18) “Energy & persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

19) “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

20) “Exercise is labor without weariness.” – Samuel Johnson

Workout Motivation Quotes by Michael Jordan

101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes - "I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

21) “I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

22) “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

23) “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

24) “A feeble body weakens the mind.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

24) “Feed your fitness. Starve your mediocrity.” – Krystal Breakley

25) “The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.” – Joan Rivers

26) “A fit, healthy body – that is the best fashion statement.” – Jess C. Scott

27) “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!” – Jillian Michaels

Workout Motivation Quotes by John Wooden

101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes - "Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you." - John Wooden

28) “Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.” – John Wooden

29) “Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.” –John Wooden

30) “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden

31) “Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.” – Wayne Dyer

32) “Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.” – John F. Kennedy

33) “The hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made, so if you push through, you can push through anything.” – Dana Vollmer

Workout Motivation Quotes by Bill Bowerman

101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes - "If you have a body, you are an athlete!" - Bill Bowerman

34) “If you have a body, you are an athlete!” – Bill Bowerman

35) “The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.” – Bill Bowerman

36) “What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow.” – Jay Cutler

Workout Motivation Quotes by Muhammad Ali

"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
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37) “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

38) “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.” – Muhammad Ali

39) “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

Workout Motivation Memes by Arnold Schwarzenegger

101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes - "If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

40) “If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

41) “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

42) “The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

43) “Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

44) “The best investment you make is your own health.” – Unknown

45) “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” – Fred DeVito

46) “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

47) “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

Workout Motivation Memes by Vince Lombardi

101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes - "Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." - Vince Lombardi

48) “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” – Vince Lombardi

49) “Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.” – Vince Lombardi

50) “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.” – Michelle Obama

51) “A little progress each day adds up to big results” – Unknown

52) “Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.” – John Assaraf

53) “If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll probably have to make time for illness.” – Robin Sharma

54) “You may not be there yet, but you are closer than you were yesterday.” – Unknown

55) “You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

56) “Muscles are torn in the gym, fed in the kitchen, and built in the bed.” – Unknown

57) “We must appreciate and never underestimate our own inner power.” – Noah Galloway

58) “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

59) “The next few months will go by whether you workout or not!” – Unknown

60) “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas

Workout Motivation Quotes by Michael Phelps

101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes - "You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get." - Michael Phelps

61) “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

62) “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

63) “Once you are exercising regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.” – Erin Gray

64) “A one-hour workout is 4% of your day. No excuses.”

65) “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

66) “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

67) “You have to push past your perceived limits, push past that point you thought was as far as you can go.” – Drew Brees

68) “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” – Matt Biondi

69) “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

Push yourself harder than yesterday…

101 Inspiring Workout Motivation Quotes - "Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow." - Unknown

70) “Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow.” – Unknown

71) “Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.” – Zig Ziglar

72) “The real workout starts when you want to stop.” – Ronnie Coleman

73) “Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Work hard, good results will come.” – Unknown

74) “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

75) “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.” – Les Brown

76) “Someone busier than you is working out right now.” – Unknown

77) “If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

78) “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

79) “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

80) “The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

Workout Motivation Quotes by Jim Rohn

"Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn

81) “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn

82) “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn

83) “You can either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” – Jim Rohn

84) “The body achieves what the mind believes.” – Napoleon Hill

85) “If you think lifting is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.” – Bret Contreras

86) “This month’s exercise is next month’s health.” – Unknown

87) “Three months from now, you will thank yourself” – Unknown

88) “You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible.” – Kai Greene

89) “Tough times don’t last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

Excellence is a habit…

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done." - Thomas Jefferson

90) “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson

91) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

92) “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin

93) “What seems impossible today will one day become your warm-up.” – Unknown

94) “When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.” – Unknown

95) “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

96) “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson

97) “Your success is found in your daily routine.” – Unknown

98) “Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.” – Sylvester Stallone

99) “Get ready, be prepared. So when opportunities finally show themselves, you’ll be able to own them.” – Hannah Gabriels

100) “Don’t get discouraged.” – Unknown

101) “Exercise should be regarded as a tribute to the heart.” – Gene Tunney

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