200+ Gym Quotes to Keep You Motivated During Workouts

Not everyone wakes up in the morning with a passion for a healthy day. Some people, like you and me, need an extra boost to get to the gym, complete a workout, and stay on track with their fitness goals. With all the distractions in life, forcing yourself to start working out at home or heading to the gym can be a challenge—I know that all too well.

Reaching new fitness milestones doesn’t mean you become a fitness expert overnight—it means perseverance, especially when you want to give up the most.

To maintain your fitness goals, you need self-motivation, and motivational signs in the gym can be a driving force when self-motivation doesn’t work.

In this article, we’ll explore inspiring fitness quotes from great athletes, celebrities, and successful people from all walks of life. These quotes will undoubtedly provide the necessary motivation to get that last set of squats or stick with your online fitness classes.

When you’re feeling down because you lack motivation to work out, just remember these quotes and strive to be the best version of yourself. Let’s explore these quotes, shall we?

1. John Cena ：If you don’t learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.

2. Dwayne Johnson ：Blood, sweat and respect. First two you give, last one you earn.

3. Lou Ferrigno：To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

4. Bruce Lee：If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

5. Frank Zane：Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think is possible

6. Kai Greene：Thoughts becme things.

7. Greg Plitt：The hardest things in life are done the least and provide the most.

8. Ronnie Coleman：Everybody wants to be a ‘powerbuilder’, but don’t nobody want to lift no heavy-ass weights.

9. Jay Cutler：I don’t eat for taste, I eat for function.

10. ArnoldStrength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop.
11. Phil Heath：Get over it people, I work my ass off.

12. Franco Columbu：I’m the strongest bodybuilder who ever lived, I think…

13. Dwayne Johnson：The gym will always provide the most important tool we need to get through life’s challenge – Perseverance.

14. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character."

15. Rich Piana: "It's simple: If it jiggles, it's fat."

16. Kai Greene: "It's not what you do, it's how you do it. It's not what you see, it's how you look at it. It's not how your life is, it's how you live it."

17. T. Fletcher: "I command you to grow!"

18. Mike Tyson: "You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You have to be cold. You can’t feel anything."

19. Steve Cook: "If you think lifting is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous."

20. Greg Glassman: "The greatest adaptation to fitness takes place between the ears."

21. Branch Warren: "Train like an athlete, eat like a bodybuilder."

22. Lazar Angelov: "Success starts with self-discipline."

23. Rich Froning: "The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to."

24. Eric Thomas: "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful."

25. Manny Pacquiao: "Only in death will I relinquish my belts."

26. Joe Weider: "To be a champion, you must act like one, act like a champion."

27. Tom Platz: "It’s not the weight that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it."

28. Michael Phelps: "You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

29. 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.'"

30. Jack LaLanne: "Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom."

31. Rich Froning: "In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up."

32. Herschel Walker: "If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."

33. Vince Lombardi: "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

34. George S. Patton: "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

35. Laila Ali: "The only limitations are in your mind."

36. Dorian Yates: "If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse."

37. Dan Gable: "Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

38. Kobe Bryant: "Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

39. LeBron James: "You have to be able to accept failure to get better."

40. Jillian Michaels: "It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens."

41. Les Brown: "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

42. Tony Horton: "Do your best and forget the rest."

43. Shaquille O'Neal: "Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do."

44. These quotes emphasize discipline, perseverance, and the relentless pursuit of excellence, both in the gym and in life.

45. Bruce Lee: "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

46. David Goggins: "Most people who are criticizing and judging haven’t even tried what you failed at."

47. Usain Bolt: "I don’t think limits."

48. Steve Prefontaine: "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

49. Mark Rippetoe: "Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general."

50. Lou Holtz: "Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

51. John Wooden: "Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

52. Sylvester Stallone (as Rocky Balboa): "It’s not about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

53. Tommy Lasorda: "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination."

54. Chris Powell: "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

55. Michael Jordan: "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

56. Bo Jackson: "Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

57. Greg Glassman: "Be impressed by intensity, not volume."

58. Mia Hamm: "The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is looking."

59. Will Smith: "The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill."

60. Henry Rollins: "The iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The iron will always kick you the real deal."

61. Muhammad Ali: "Don’t count the days; make the days count."

62. Eric Thomas: "Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year, but eventually, it will subside, and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

63. Jackie Joyner-Kersee: "Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind."

64. Yoda (Star Wars): "Do or do not. There is no try."

65. Thomas Edison: "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

66. Rocky Balboa: "Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life."

67. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."

68. Jesse Owens: "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."

69. Mickey Mantle: "During my 18 years, I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball."

70. Lance Armstrong: "Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

71. Bob Harper: "Believe in yourself, trust the process, change forever."

72. Tom Brady: "You wanna know which ring is my favorite? The next one."

73. Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

74. Gail Devers: "Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

75. Tony Robbins: "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

76. Zig Ziglar: "You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

77. Ronda Rousey: "I don’t just do this to be the best in the world, I do this to be the best in history."

78. Charles Bukowski: "What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."

79. Stephen Covey: "The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

80. Mark Twain: "The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

81. Maya Angelou: "Nothing will work unless you do."

82. Will Smith: "You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say, ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall."

83. Les Brown: "You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."

84. Bob Marley: "You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

85. Helen Keller: "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

86. Bear Bryant: "It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

87. Mark Bell: "Strength is never a weakness, and weakness is never a strength."

88. Michael Phelps: "I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

89. Eric Thomas: "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful."

90. James Clear: "You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."

91. Vince Lombardi: "The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."

92. Henry Ford: "Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

93. David Goggins: "Becoming uncommon amongst uncommon people."

94. John Wooden: "Make each day your masterpiece."

95. Mark Spitz: "If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail."

96. Bo Jackson: "Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

 

97. Greg Plitt: "The clock is ticking. Are you becoming the person you want to be?"

98. Ayn Rand: "The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

99. Jocko Willink: "Discipline equals freedom."

100. Napoleon Hill: "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

101. Bill Phillips: "Food is the most widely abused anxiety drug and exercise is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant."

102. Socrates: "No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

103. Julius Erving: "Being a professional is doing the things you love to do on the days you don’t feel like doing them."

104. Kevin Durant: "Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."

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

106. Lou Holtz: "Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period."

107. Epictetus: "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

108. Zig Ziglar: "You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

109. Sanya Richards-Ross: "Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle!"

110. Benjamin Franklin: "Energy and persistence conquer all things."

111. Mahatma Gandhi: "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

112. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."

113. Bill Bowerman: "There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."

114. Ray Lewis: "You gotta be hungry for it. You gotta put everything you got on it. Everything. Every second. You have to be the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave."

115. Kevin Hart: "Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually, it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off."

116. Haruki Murakami: "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

117. Rocky Balboa: "It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

118. Serena Williams: "I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

119. Greg Glassman: "The greatest adaptation to fitness is a mental one."

120. Albert Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."

121. John C. Maxwell: "The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

122. Jim Wendler: "If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to suck at it."

123. Tom Landry: "Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."

124. Roger Bannister: "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

125. Muhammad Ali: "It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

126. Robert Collier: "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

127. Seuss: "Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act."

128. Tony Dorsett: "To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."

129. Rocky Marciano: "I believe in getting up more times than I fall down."

130. Jack Dempsey: "A champion is someone who gets up when he can’"

131. Greg Glassman: "Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense."

132. Eric Thomas: "Some of you don’t even realize you have unfinished business. You need to go back where you left off."

133. Vince Lombardi: "It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

134. Lou Holtz: "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

135. Eric Thomas: "You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life."

136. William James: "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

137. Lou Ferrigno: "I have no time for regrets, just time to get better."

138. Jerry Rice: "Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’"

139. David Goggins: "Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done."

140. Les Brown: "You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."

141. John Wooden: "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

142. Pat Summitt: "It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals."

143. Steve Prefontaine: "Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."

144. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

145. Tommy Lasorda: "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."

146. Mark Bell: "The greatest gift you can give someone is to help them achieve their goals."

147. Miyamoto Musashi: "You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain."

148. Yogi Berra: "If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else."

149. Babe Ruth: "It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

150. Hulk Hogan: "To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong."

151. David Goggins: "You have to build calluses on your brain just like how you build calluses on your hands. Callus your mind through pain and suffering."

152. Arthur Ashe: "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

153. Jim Rohn: "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

154. Miyamoto Musashi: "The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them."

155. Arnold Palmer: "The road to success is always under construction."

156. Lou Holtz: "Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

157. Zig Ziglar: "People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily."

158. Michael Jordan: "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

159. Charles Bukowski: "Find what you love and let it kill you."

160. Dan Gable: "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

161. David Goggins: "You are stopping you, you are giving up instead of getting hard."

162. Muhammad Ali: "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

163. Lou Ferrigno: "The truth is, you can’t get much done alone."

164. Sylvester Stallone: "Your life is the sum of the choices you make."

165. Dorian Yates: "You don’t get this from the crowd, you get this from the dedication, the hours, and the discipline."

166. Bruce Lee: "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."

167. Jillian Michaels: "It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you implement that effort into your life every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs."

168. Kobe Bryant: "I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you."

169. David Goggins: "There is no finish line."

170. Tom Brady: "I didn’t come this far to only come this far, so we’ve still got further to go."

171. Michael Jordan: "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

172. Mark Rippetoe: "Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general."

173. Usain Bolt: "I know what I can do, so it doesn’t bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation."

174. Frank Zane: "Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs."

175. Zig Ziglar: "You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

176. Les Brown: "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

177. Eric Thomas: "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful."

178. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."

179. Jim Rohn: "Either you run the day or the day runs you."

180. Vince Lombardi: "Winners never quit and quitters never win."

181. Socrates: "No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

182. Steve Jobs: "Stay hungry, stay foolish."

183. Henry Rollins: "Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp."

184. Lou Holtz: "You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him."

185. David Goggins: "The only easy day was yesterday."

186. Tom Platz: "Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym."

187. Albert Einstein: "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

188. Serena Williams: "I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

189. Will Smith: "Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us."

190. Phil Heath: "If it was easy, everyone would be a champion, so that’s why I pride myself in pushing harder."

191. Henry David Thoreau: "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

192. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

193. Walt Disney: "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

194. Bill Kazmaier: "Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general."

195. Rich Froning: "In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up."

196. Greg Plitt: "The gym is not the social club for the fit. It’s a training ground for everyone."

197. Bruce Lee: "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

198. Ronnie Coleman: "Ain't nothing but a peanut."

199. Mia Hamm: "Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become, the hours of practice, and the coaches who have pushed you, is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back. Play for her."

200. Michael Jordan: "I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

201. Kai Greene: "Your dreams will drive the pain."

202. Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa): "It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

203. David Goggins: "You will never learn to be resilient if you never experience adversity."

204. Vince Gironda: "The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical."

205. Jocko Willink: "Discipline is the root of all good qualities."

206. Lou Holtz: "Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

207. Henry Rollins: "I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention."

208. Tony Robbins: "Your past does not equal your future."

209. Muhammad Ali: "I’m gonna show you how great I am."

Best Gym Quotes:

1. Use your actions to tell yourself that you can do anything you want to do.

2. Health is a habit. Stick to fitness and enjoy the beauty of life.

3. If you don't want to stop, keep moving forward.

4. A healthy body is the greatest wealth. Stick to training and stay energetic.

5. Persistent efforts are the real way to fitness.

6. Past efforts are gifts for the future. Every sweat is a step towards the goal.

7. Only with a strong body can you face the challenges of life.

8. With firm determination, you will have unlimited possibilities.

9. There are no shortcuts in life, only the road of persistence and hard work.

10. With a healthy body, you have unlimited possibilities.

11. Don't be an obstacle to yourself, let persistence make your fitness journey.

12. Fitness is a competition with yourself. Only by surpassing yourself can you become stronger.

13. Defeat the voice that tells you it's impossible and prove that you can do it.

14. Only by experiencing pain can you taste the sweetness of victory.

15. Keep improving, surpass fatigue, and become the best version of yourself.

16. There is no excuse for not having time to exercise, only an excuse for laziness.

17. A beautiful body needs to be built with sweat.

18. Every fall is an opportunity to rise up. Refuse to be helpless and release your potential.

19. Only by constantly surpassing yourself can you achieve extraordinary results.

20. Fitness is not only about changing your body, but also about changing your attitude towards life.

21. Every sweat is a step towards your dream.

22. Every day is a new beginning, and every effort is the starting point of transformation.

23. Every exercise is the beginning of change, don't waste every opportunity.

24. There is no lazy weight loss technique, only the magic of persistence.

25. Every challenge is an opportunity for self-breakthrough, don't give up.

26. Nothing is more powerful than inner satisfaction. Focus on fitness and start a new journey.

27. The process of fitness is beautiful, and the results are even more amazing.

28. Only by unremitting efforts can we move towards an ideal body and healthy life.

29. A healthy body is the home of a strong soul.

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31. A good body is the crystallization of self-discipline and the product of daily persistence.

32. The real victory is not to defeat others, but to defeat yourself.

33. Don't give up because the goal is far away. Every effort will bring you one step closer to success.

34. Your efforts today will bring surprises to your future self.

The Power of Gym Quotes Motivation

Studies show that about 50% of people who start a fitness program give up within the first 6 months. This makes you wonder why this is the case. Lack of motivation is the main reason - if they don't want it enough, they will choose to give up. Whether it is external motivation or internal drive, you need motivation to achieve your fitness goals, as well as goals in other areas of life. Sometimes, a motivational quote is just what you need to take the first step. Moreover, all the motivational fitness quotes listed in this article convey one message - never give up even when facing difficulties. Let's feel the power of these quotes together and let them be your compass in your fitness journey.

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