Going to the gym can be a daunting task, especially if you’re just starting out or if you’re feeling demotivated. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration to get you going.
That’s why we’ve compiled a list of some of the best gym motivational quotes to help you stay on track with your fitness goals.
Whether you need a boost of motivation to start your workout or a reminder of why you’re putting in the work, these quotes have got you covered. So, without further ado, let’s get inspired!
Best Gym Motivational Quotes
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.” – Arnold
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.” – John Wooden
“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.” – Arnold
“When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold
“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.” – Arnold
“If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.” – Arnold
“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” – Arnold
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”- Michal Joan Bobak
“Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.” – Zig Ziglar
“If you think lifting is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.” – Bret Contreras
“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?” – Arnold
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”- Vidal Sassoon
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“Success is what comes after your stop making excuses.” – Luis Galarza
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
“The muscle and the mind must become one. One without the other is zero.” – Lee Haney
“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
“The body achieves what the mind believes.” – Napoleon Hill
“If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.” – Arnold
“Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow.” – Vincent Williams Sr.
“The real workout starts when you want to stop.” – Ronnie Coleman
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
“Once you are exercising regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.” – Erin Gray
“Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart” – Gene Tunney
“Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.” –Vince Lombardi
“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, just pretend that you do and at some point, you will.” – Venus Williams
Inspirational Gym Quotes
“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
“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
“And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.” – Julie Bishop
“If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.” – Dwayne Johnson
“The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.” – Kenneth H. Cooper
“To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.” – Gene Tunney
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
“In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.” – Rich Froning Jr
“In the midst of these hard times, it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.” – Knute Nelson
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
“There’s no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard, and aim to be the best.” – Ronnie Coleman
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
“You shall gain, but you shall pay with sweat, blood, and vomit.” – Pavel Tsatsouline
“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.” – Sylvester Stallone
“Think of your workouts as important meetings you schedule with yourself. Bosses don’t cancel” – Unknown
“Confidence comes from discipline and training.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“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
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will” –Mahatma Gandhi
“If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.” – Mark Spitz
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
“A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.” – Jack Dempsey
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
“You have to think about it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible.” – Kai Greene
“The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.” – Unknown
“You should never stay at the same level. Always push yourself to the next.” – Marnelli Dimzon
“Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up.” – Rock Balboa
“The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph’.” – Marvin Phillips
“If you are not pissed off for greatness, that just means you’re okay with being mediocre.” – Ray Lewis
“Every action you take is molding who you are as a person. Every time that you sleep in. Every time you are undisciplined, you are training yourself that it’s okay. A downward spiral towards mediocrity.” – Andrew Tate
“You are exactly where you deserve to be. Change who you are and you will change how you live.” – Andrew Tate
“The person who goes to the gym every day regardless of how they feel will always beat the person who goes to the gym when they feel like going to the gym.” – Andrew Tate
“I could never stop fighting even if I lost 100 fights because I’m not built to live a normal existence.” – Andrew Tate
“For 12 years I trained 5 hours per day, six days per week, and I was motivated to train probably 25% of the time. The rest of the time I went because I am disciplined.” – Andrew Tate
“The average man doesn’t try very hard. So if you try very hard, it’s impossible to be average.” – Andrew Tate
“Close your eyes. Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease.” – Andrew Tate
“Don’t dream of winning. Train for it!” – Mo Farah
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold
“Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.” – Joseph Pilates
“If you do not believe in yourself, no one will do it for you” – Kobe Bryant
“Time, Effort, Sacrifice, and Sweat. How will you pay for your goals?” – Usain Bolt
“The clock is ticking. Are you becoming the person you want to be?” –Greg Plitt
“Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.” – Unknown
“Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.” – Arnold
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
“I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I’ve been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won’t be bulky.“ – Serena Williams
Famous Workout Quotes
“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
“We must train hard. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.” – Vince Mcconnell
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale
“You have to set yourself goals so you can push yourself harder. Desire is the key to success.” -Usain Bolt.
“I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.” -Usain Bolt.
“I stopped worrying about the start. The end is what’s important.” -Usain Bolt.
“A lot of people will just stop because they’re dead tired. You gotta do that extra one. That’s when you improve.” -Usain Bolt.
“Repeating is harder than anything else.” -Usain Bolt.
“I know what I can do, so I never doubt myself.” -Usain Bolt.
“You have to get to the worst to get better.” -Usain Bolt.
“I’ve worked hard over the years, I’ve been injured and I’ve worked hard through it, and I’ve made it.” – Usain Bolt.
“When you lose, it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.” – Usain Bolt.
“Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.” – Usain Bolt.
“Don’t think about the start of the race, think about the ending.” – Usain Bolt.
“As long as I’m in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.” – Usain Bolt.
“We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
“Talent without working hard is nothing.“ – Cristiano Ronaldo
Short Gym Motivational Quotes
“I don’t like losing anyways.” – Usain Bolt
“People like to see showdowns.” – Usain Bolt
“I don’t think about records.” – Usain Bolt
“My hunger is always there.” – Usain Bolt
“I don’t think about limits.” – Usain Bolt
“All great achievements require time.” – Maya Angelou
“Exercise is labor without weariness.” – Samuel Johnson
“Sweat is fat crying.” – Anonymous
“Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Once you see results, it becomes an addiction” – Unknown
“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
“Create healthy habits, not restrictions.” – Unknown
“Hustle for that muscle” – Unknown
“Eat like you love your body.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Gym is my therapy.”
“I will prove them wrong.”
“If you’re not strong, you’re weak.”
“My muscles are hungover.”
“Exercise is the best drug for me.”
“Always be a work-in-progress.”
Gym Quotes for Instagram
No pain, no gain.
Winners train. Losers complain.
Eat big. Lift big. Get big.
Excuses don’t burn calories!
Slow progress is still progress.
Seize the day at the gym!
Don’t decrease the goal. Increase the effort!
When it comes to fitness, never settle for less!
I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.
Dieting doesn’t have to be a chore.
Every step is progress.
A one-hour workout is 4% of your day. No excuses.
No excuse is stronger than you are.
Strive for progress, not perfection.
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
It hurts now, but one day, it will be your warm-up.
A bad day can be made better by going to the gym.
Fitness is not about being better than someone. Fitness is about being better than the person you were yesterday.
Workout Motivational Quotes
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” – Marilyn Vos Savant
“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.” – Denis Waitley
“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam
“Working out is a reward, not a punishment.”
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid
“I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don’t like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?” – Vince Gironda
A gym is a sacred place which makes your life feel worth existing by putting the effort of care into the home of your soul called body! – Munia Khan
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
“That’s the object of going to a gym, having fun.” – Joe Gold
“Health is worth more than learning.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Fitness is like marriage. You can’t cheat on it, and expect it to work.”
“No one ever drowned in sweat.”
“To change your body, you must first change your mind.”
“The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.” – Mark Rippetoe
“If the bar ain’t bending, you’re just pretending.”
“A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.” – Joan Walsh Anglund
“In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.” – Rich Froning Jr
“Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day. ” – Gabby Douglas
“When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.” – Bill Loguidice
“I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.” – Derek Jeter
“Going to the gym is great for your body, but it’s also great for your mind.” – Rory McIlroy
“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.” – Navy SEALs
“Every day is another chance to get stronger, to eat better, to live healthier, and to be the best version of you.”
“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams
“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Ashley Greene
“Your mind gives up before your legs do.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The groundwork for all happiness is good health.” – Leigh Hunt
“Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” – Jack LaLanne
“There are seven days in a week and someday isn’t one of them.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”- Pablo Picasso
“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.” – Marquis de Sade
“Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” – Fred DeVito
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.” – Joan Rivers
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine
“Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince.”
“You’re only one workout away from a good mood.”
“If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.” – The Rock
“It’s going to be a journey. It’s not a sprint to get in shape.” – Kerri Walsh Jennings
“Keep working even when no one is watching.” – Alex Morgan
“If you aren’t hurting after a good workout then obviously you haven’t done something right.” – Mark W. Boyer
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“I train to be the best in the world on my worst day.” – Ronda Rousey
“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.” – Jess C. Scott
“Energy & persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The next few months will go by whether you workout or not!”
“Muscles are torn in the gym, fed in the kitchen and built in the bed.”
“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
“If you have a body, you are an athlete!” – Bill Bowerman
“Someone busier than you is working our right now.”
“This month’s exercise is next month’s health.”
“You can either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” -Jim Rohn
“I don’t work out because I hate my body, I workout because I love my body.”
“No matter how slow you go you still lapping everyone on the couch.”
“Today it hurts, tomorrow it works!”
“STRONG, is the new skinny.”
“Respect your body. It’s the only one you get.”
“Nothing tastes as good as being fit feels.”
“The voice in your head that says you can’t do this is a liar.”
“All great achievements require time.” —Maya Angelou
“Every day is another chance to get stronger, to eat better, to live healthier, and to be the best version of you.” — Unknown
“The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.” – MORIHEI UESHIBA
“Stop saying I wish, start saying I will.” – Unknown
“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
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.” – John F. Kennedy
“Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.” – John Assaraf
“A feeble body weakens the mind.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Best Gym Motivational Quotes to Keep you Going
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” – Denis Waitley
“Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.” – Paula Abdul
“Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.” – George A. Sheehan
“Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind. –Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.” – Arnold
“An Early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day” — Henry David Thoreau
“Set your goals high, and don’t stop until you get there.” – Bo Jackson
“We do not stop exercising because we grow old—we grow old because we stop exercising.” – Dr. Kenneth Cooper
“When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no, ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’” – VL Allineare
“Once you are exercising regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.” – Erin Gray
Conclusion
In conclusion, staying motivated while working out can be a challenge, but it’s crucial to achieving your fitness goals. By surrounding yourself with positive and uplifting messages, such as the gym motivational quotes we’ve shared, you can stay on track and push through any obstacles that come your way.
Remember, progress takes time and consistency, so don’t get discouraged if you don’t see results right away. Trust the process and keep pushing yourself. With determination and a positive mindset, you’ll be able to achieve anything you set your mind to. Happy sweating!
