Stay motivated and unlock your full potential with these powerful exercise quotes, gathered from renowned athletes to fitness enthusiasts.
Exercise is more than just physical activity; it is a powerful tool that empowers both the body and the mind. Whether you engage in cardiovascular workouts or strength training, the benefits extend far beyond mere physical fitness.
They teach us discipline, resilience, and the importance of consistency. Along this transformative journey, our collection of exercise quotes act as beacons of motivation. They guiding us toward our goals and helping us overcome obstacles along the way.
These quotes come from a variety of sources: athletes, fitness experts, trainers, and even everyday enthusiasts. Whether you are a beginner on your fitness journey or someone looking to rekindle their exercise routine, these quotes will fuel your passion for fitness.
So, delve into the world of exercise quotes and allow their wisdom and inspiration to infuse your workouts. Let these quotes become your allies in overcoming challenges, staying committed, and achieving your exercise goals.
Exercise motivation quotes
Let these powerful exercise quotes propel you towards peak performance, pushing you to surpass your limits and achieve remarkable results.
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
Arthur C. Clarke
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
Don’t stop when you’re tired; stop when you’re done.
Marilyn Monroe
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
Zig Ziglar
Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.
Dan John
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.
Bill Phillips
You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Jack LaLanne
Morning exercise quotes
Get inspired, push through obstacles, and achieve your fitness goals with the help of these exercise quotes.
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
E. B. White
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
Robert Kiyosaki
Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistent practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all.
Elle Luna
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Richard Whately
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston
Starting my day with exercise gives me a big mood and energy boost throughout the day and makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something right off the bat.
Jake Knapp
Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.
Eben Pagan
Inspiring exercise quotes
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
Martial
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Max De Pree
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
Meditation is warm–up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.
Eknath Easwaran
What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?
Randy Glasbergen
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
Kenneth H. Cooper
Jogging is very beneficial. It’s good for your legs and your feet. It’s also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
Charles M. Schulz
If someone says, ‘Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?’ ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?… The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
Bill Bowerman
Exercise quotes for women
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash
Anyone’s life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry
You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.
Mike Ditka
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
Florynce Kennedy
There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don’t feel like working out any more, so you don’t want to keep yourself fit any more, but that’s your decision. Why should you be judged for it?
Janet Jackson
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Sasha Cohen
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
Cyril Falls
Exercise should be fun, otherwise, you won’t be consistent.
Laura Ramirez
Motivational exercise quotes
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends.
Thomas Jefferson
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
Muhammad Ali
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
Salman Rushdie
Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.
David Goggins
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Jim Rohn
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Elbert Hubbard
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Robert H. Schuller
Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.
Sasha Azevedo
Positive exercise quotes
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
Norman Vincent Peale
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
Grantland Rice
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
Matthew Kelly
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
James Madison
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
Red Skelton
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde
If you aren’t hurting after a good workout then obviously you haven’t done something right.
Mark W. Boyer
My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you’ve go to take care of it!
Jack LaLanne
I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us.
Serena Williams
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.
Wallace D. Wattles
Exercise quotes short
Let these exercise quotes inspire you to push harder, stay committed, and achieve the healthy, active lifestyle you desire.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks, will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you!
Fred Devito
I don’t run to add days to my life. I run to add life to my days.
Ronald Rook
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
John Wooden
You can have results or excuses, but not both.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going.
Jillian Michaels
Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
Jerry Rice
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
Kenneth H. Cooper
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson
Exercise quotes funny
The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.
Franklin P. Jones
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!
Andy Rooney
Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going!
Jillian Michaels
I am in competition with no one. I run my own race. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone, in any way, shape, or form. I just aim to improve, to be better than I was before. That’s all.
Steve Maraboli
Once I was a forty–pound weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas.
Vivian Stanshall
The best abs exercise is five sets of stop eating so much.
Lazar Angelov
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.
Henry Sambrooke Leigh
I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.
Marshawn Lynch
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaiah Berlin
Motivational walking exercise quotes
You don’t have to go the gym – just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.
Deepak Chopra
A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
David McCord
Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.
Jennifer Hudson
Many exercise forms – aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more – have been shown to benefit mood.
Andrew Weil
I run because it’s my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I’m going where I’m going and I’m already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise… it’s a consistent reward for victory!
Sasha Azevedo
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
Thomas Jefferson
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
John Wanamaker
Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.
Lee Haney
Exercise quotes inspirational
When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.
Minka Kelly
The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
Mark Spitz
Divisional exercise is a great game of make–believe.
Patrick MacGill
I’d like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like a normal human being. I seem to not do that… ever.
Dylan O’Brien
Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
Jack LaLanne
Most of us think we don’t have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don’t have time not to. We’re talking about three to six hours a week – or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 – 165 hours of the week.
Stephen Covey
You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic.
Mark Rippetoe
Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.
Mark Rippetoe
In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.
Philippe Starck
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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Final thoughts
Exercise quotes go beyond mere words; they become catalysts for change and personal growth. They help us to never give up on goals, uplift our spirits during moments of doubt and remind us of the incredible strength and perseverance we possess.
By incorporating exercise quotes into our fitness routines, we tap into a wellspring of motivation and inspiration. So, let these quotes fuel your motivation, inspire your actions, and empower you to become the best version of yourself.
We hope that the collection of exercise quotes we have shared with you resonates deeply. Share them with others who may benefit from their uplifting messages. By spreading the inspiration and support found within these quotes, we create a community that uplifts and empowers one another.
Remember, you have the power within you to achieve greatness. Believe in yourself, keep moving, keep growing, and keep shining. The world is waiting to witness the incredible things you will achieve through the power of exercise.