80 Inspirational Workout Quotes: Fueling Your Motivation To Succeed

Have you ever found yourself lacking the motivation to hit the gym or lacing up your running shoes? Are you struggling to push through that last set or find the energy to go for that extra mile? Don’t worry; you’re not alone. Maintaining a consistent workout routine can be challenging, and we all experience moments when our motivation wanes. That’s where the power of workout quotes comes into play.

Workout quotes can be a powerful tool to ignite your inner drive and push through those tough workouts. They serve as a reminder of why you started and help you stay focused on your goals. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most inspirational workout quotes to fuel your motivation and help you achieve success.

Inspirational workout quotes

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

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

Our growing softness, and our increasing lack of physical fitness, are menace to our security. John F. Kennedy

Our growing softness, and our increasing lack of physical fitness, are menace to our security.
John F. Kennedy

Most people fail, not because of a lack of desire, but, because of a lack of commitment. Vince Lombardi

Most people fail, not because of a lack of desire, but, because of a lack of commitment.
Vince Lombardi

Exercise is labor without weariness. Samuel Johnson

Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson

The last three or four reps are what make the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. Arnold Schwarzenegger

The last three or four reps are what make the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

A year from now you may wish you had started today. Karen Lamb

A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb

Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you. John Wooden

Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
John Wooden

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. Vince Lombardi Jr

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi Jr

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen. Michael Jordan

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it. Joan Rivers

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.
Joan Rivers

Look in the mirror. That’s your competition. John Assaraf

Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.
John Assaraf

If you think lifting is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous. Bret Contreras

If you think lifting is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.
Bret Contreras

A feeble body weakens the mind. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home. Michael Phelps

Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.
Michael Phelps

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. Michal Joan Bobak

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
Michal Joan Bobak

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.  Robert H. Schuller

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller

Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable. Zig Ziglar

Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.
Zig Ziglar

The groundwork for all happiness is good health. Leigh Hunt

The groundwork for all happiness is good health.
Leigh Hunt

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vidal Sassoon

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon

Cute workout quotes

Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners. William Shakespeare

Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.
William Shakespeare

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison

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 F. Kennedy

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 F. Kennedy

Success is what comes after your stop making excuses. Luis Galarza

Success is what comes after your stop making excuses.
Luis Galarza

The successful warrior is the average man, with a laser-like focus. bruce Lee

The successful warrior is the average man, with a laser-like focus.
bruce Lee

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

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

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom. Jack LaLanne

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.
Jack LaLanne

There are a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. Josh Billings

There are a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings

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

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

You must expect great things from yourself before you can do them. Michael Jordan

You must expect great things from yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

I'm not a waify girl and never will be. I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape. Sophia Bush

I’m not a waify girl and never will be. I think it’s healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.
Sophia Bush

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced Marquis de Sade

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced
Marquis de Sade

Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. William Temple

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
William Temple

The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow. Arnold Schwarzenegger

The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

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

Setting goals is the first step toward turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins

Setting goals is the first step toward turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable! Jillian Michaels

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!
Jillian Michaels

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

Morning workout quotes

Surround yourself with those who challenge you, push you, and motivate you.

Surround yourself with those who challenge you, push you, and motivate you.

Fitness is not about being better than someone else, it’s about being better than you used to be.

Fitness is not about being better than someone else, it’s about being better than you used to be.

Once you see results, it becomes an addiction.

Once you see results, it becomes an addiction.

You don’t get the ass you want by sitting on it.

You don’t get the ass you want by sitting on it.

Believe that success is your only option.

Believe that success is your only option.

Today, be the badass girl you were too lazy to be yesterday.

Today, be the badass girl you were too lazy to be yesterday.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You’re only one workout away from a good mood.

You’re only one workout away from a good mood.

Sore today, strong tomorrow.

Sore today, strong tomorrow.

Stop wishing, start doing.

Stop wishing, start doing.

Friday workout quotes

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face.

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face.

If you train hard, you will not only be hard, but you will be hard to beat. Herschel Walker

If you train hard, you will not only be hard, but you will be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker

If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you are the one who comes up on the short end.  Dr. J

If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you are the one who comes up on the short end.
Dr. J

I never regret it when I do it. I regret it when I don’t.  Alison Lewis

I never regret it when I do it. I regret it when I don’t.
Alison Lewis

I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say. Because of you, I didn’t give up.

I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say. Because of you, I didn’t give up.

The hard part isn’t getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.

The hard part isn’t getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.

The only side effect of too much training is that you get better There is nothing wrong with that. Mark Spitz

The only side effect of too much training is that you get better There is nothing wrong with that. Mark Spitz

I’m not out there sweating for 3 hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.  Michael Jordan

I’m not out there sweating for 3 hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
Michael Jordan

This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes. Peggy Flemming

This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
Peggy Flemming

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.  Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

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Funny workout quotes for Instagram

Life has its ups and downs, we call them squats.

Life has its ups and downs, we call them squats.

Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going!  Jillian Michaels

Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going!
Jillian Michaels

The only BS I need in my life is burpees and squats.

The only BS I need in my life is burpees and squats.

Sweat is your fat crying.

Sweat is your fat crying.

Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.

It’s my workout and I’ll cry if I want to.

I’m always weirdly proud when my pee is clear

I’m always weirdly proud when my pee is clear

I need to get in shape. If I were murdered right now, my chalk outline would be a circle.

I need to get in shape. If I were murdered right now, my chalk outline would be a circle.

I don’t want to look thin. I want to look like I could kiss your butt

I don’t want to look thin. I want to look like I could kiss your butt

I don’t sweat, I sparkle.

I don’t sweat, I sparkle.

Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping.

Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping.

Best workout quotes

If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you. Fred DeVito

If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.
Fred DeVito

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

Don’t dream of winning. Train for it!

Don’t dream of winning. Train for it!

Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren’t willing to do.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren’t willing to do.

I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.

I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life because you get out of it what you put into it.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life because you get out of it what you put into it.

If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.

If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far.

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far.

You are one ride away from a good mood.

You are one ride away from a good mood.

Remember, motivation is not a constant state, and it’s normal to experience fluctuations in your drive. That’s why it’s essential to find what works for you, whether it’s reading motivational quotes, listening to uplifting music, or visualizing your goals.

Harness the power of these workout quotes and stay motivated on your fitness journey. Push through the challenges, embrace the discomfort, and celebrate your successes along the way. Your body and mind will thank you for it!

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