ᐅ169+ Gym Quotes to Keep You Motivated During Workouts

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

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

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

“If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren’t willing to do.” – Michael Phelps

“Your mind will quit a thousand times before your body will.” – Reginald Red

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks, will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you’re not innovating enough.” – Elon Musk

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller

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

“Bodybuilding isn’t 90 minutes in the gym..it’s a lifestyle.” ― Lee Priest

“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, just pretend that you do and at some point, you will.” – Venus Williams

“If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.” – Mark Spitz

“Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up.” – Rock Balboa

“I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us.” – Serena Williams

“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.” — Tom Hanks

“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” – Eloise Ristad

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.” — Matt McGorry

“No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.” ― Socrates

“The harder you work and the more prepared you are for something, you’re going to be able to persevere through anything.” – Carli Lloyd

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun

“The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph’.” – Marvin Phillips

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop until you get there.” – Bo Jackson

“The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.” — Morihei Ueshiba

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote

“Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.” – William Godwin

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

“You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it.” ― Maya Angelou

“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

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

“If you are not pissed off for greatness, that just means you’re okay with being mediocre.” – Ray Lewis

“Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.” – Joseph Pilates

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

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard.

“In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.” – Mao Zedong

“A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.” ― Joan Walsh Anglund

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

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

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

“Keep working even when no one is watching.” – Alex Morgan

“If you take time to realize what your dream is and what you really want in life — no matter what it is, whether it’s sports or in other fields — you have to realize that there is always work to do, and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do, and you put yourself in a position to be successful. And you have to have a passion about what you do.” – Stephen Curry

“The groundwork for all happiness is good health.” – Leigh Huntfs

“Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body so be kind to it.” – Elaine Moran

“Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.” – Travis Bradberry

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.” — Joseph Pilates

“If you always do what you did, you’ll always get what you got.” ― Marian Diamond

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

“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

“Don’t dream of winning. Train for it!” – Mo Farah

“You shall gain, but you shall pay with sweat, blood, and vomit.” – Pavel Tsatsouline

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

“When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Health is worth more than learning.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.” — Ronald Rook

“The gym is the best place you’ll ever be.” ― Skip Prosser

“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

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” – Mark Twain

“When I feel tired, I just think about how great I will feel once I finally reach my goal.” – Michael Phelps

“Most people give you right before the big break comes, don’t let that person be you.” – Michael Boyle

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

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

“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

“You get out what you put in. If you want more, give more.” – Jeanette Jenkins

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice

“You know that in order to feel good about yourself and work toward your goal, you should hit the gym.” ― Barbara Sorrelson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exercise is labor without weariness.¨ – Samuel Johnson

“Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.” – Greg Plitt

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

“It also helps to ask others around you to motivate you, in the same way that going to the gym is easier when others are meeting you there. If possible, get your friends and family to be your coaches and personal trainers.” ― David K. Wolpert

“Dead last finish is greater than did not finish, which trumps did not start.”

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

“The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.” – Unknown

“Fitness is not about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be. – Khloe Kardashian

“Be Humble. Be Hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.” – Dwayne

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

“Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.” – Lee Haney

“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.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else. — Evelyn Ashford

“Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow.” – Vincent Williams Sr.

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” — Sean Patrick Flanery

“Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.” – LeBron James

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

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

“Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.” – Unknown

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.” – Plato

“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

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 real workout starts when you want to stop.” – Ronnie Coleman

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

“You should never stay at the same level. Always push yourself to the next.” – Marnelli Dimzon

“Keep listening to your body. It will tell you when something is not okay.” – Emily Infeld

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

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

“It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.” – Henry Rollins

“Muscles come and go. Flab lasts.” — Bill Vaughan

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

“Workout till you feel that pain and soreness in muscles. This one is good pain. No pain, no gain.” – Invajy

“You did not wake up today to be mediocre.” – Robin Arzon

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t. you are right” – Henry Ford

“A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself” – Deena Kastor

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

“Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.” – Carrie Latet

“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson

“You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.” — Billy Crystal

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

“Confidence comes from discipline and training.” – Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

“If you do not believe in yourself, no one will do it for you” – Kobe Bryant

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

“I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.” – Kobe Bryant

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

“Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

“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

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

“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.” – Kobe Bryant

“Our bodies are gardens, our wills are our gardeners.” – William Shakespeare

“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

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

“Don’t train to be skinny. Train to be a badass.” — Demi Lovato

Just because your muscles start to protest, doesn’t mean you have to listen. — Dianne Holum

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

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

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

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer

“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!” – Jillian Michaels

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

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

“To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.” — Gene Tunney

“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don’t nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.” ― Ronnie Coleman

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

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

“We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give.” – Simone Biles

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

“Time, Effort, Sacrifice, and Sweat. How will you pay for your goals?” – Usain Bolt

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

“Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“If you aren’t hurting after a good workout then obviously you haven’t done something right.” — Mark W. Boyer

“I want to go to the gym every day otherwise I feel really bad. I just want to get more toned and healthy.” ― Lily Allen

"Beast Mode Activated."

"New Year. Same hardcore attitude."

"Addicted to the iron."

"As soon as I leave the gym I just wanna go back."

"Every time you feel like giving up.. Don't."

"When you put your headphones on and getting ready to lift some heavy shit."

"You are always stronger than you think."

"When you feel the burn and loving every second of it."

Try to push yourself further than before. Every single time you hit the gym."

"There is no substitute for hard work. Get in the gym and work your fucking ass off."

"The gym is like home to me."

"Strong is sexy."

"One does not simply resist cheat meals."

"Mind over muscle. Believe it before you do it."

"Add weights. Get stronger. Repeat."

"Does it burn? Good. Push through it."

"Decide that you want it and go for it."

"Lift heavy shit until it's not heavy anymore."

"Attempt the impossible. Every time you go into the gym."

"Walk into the gym and create your own future."

"There are 365 days this year. Each and every day is a chance to improve yourself."

"Believe in yourself. Work fucking harder. There is no one that can stop you but you." - Joey Swoll

"There are no shortcuts. Everything is reps, reps, reps." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"We all have the ability to turn our own portrait into a masterpiece." - Kai Greene

"When it burns like fucking hell and you think you can't do another rep. That's when you do more."

"A lack of focus leads to a lack of progress. Focus. Lift. Grow."

"All you need is the courage to lift. Heavy."

"You don't "wake up" or "fall into" greatness. You work your ass off, you fight and you fucking take it."

"There is no secret to greatness. What separates the good from the great is the very rare trait of not being satisfied with "good."

"Addicted to the pump."

"Believe in yourself and do things you never thought you could."

"Continue to go after your dream. Day after day. Workout after workout."

"Focus on the muscle not the weight. Leave your ego at the door."

"Patience, persistence and consistency is the pathway to victory."

"The iron. The pain. The Sweat. All the hard work. Love it."

"I don't give up. Ever."

"When you wake up after leg day and can barely walk."

"Try. And if you fail you try again. You lift that shit until it feels easy."

"Your best will always be good enough people. You've just gotta decide that you won't settle for being an average version of yourself."

"Size matters."

"I don't mind spending Friday nights in the gym. In fact, I fucking love it."

"Ask yourself this simple question before each workout: What am I going to achieve today?"

"Be strong. Be Brave."

"Be the hardest working person in the gym."

"It's not just about looking good; it's about being healthy and feeling good about yourself every damn day."

"Endure the pain."

"Don't settle for average. Ever."

"I aim to be the best that I can be."

"I push through the pain to prove to myself that I'm a winner."

"You can make excuses or you can lift."

"With sets, reps and sweat I fulfill my dream."

"I'm addicted to pushing myself to my limits in the gym."

"I am proudly addicted to becoming stronger."

"I'm addicted to crushing my goals."

"I prepare for tomorrow's workout by improving today."

"Sundays are for squats, steaks and sex."

"I like to start my week with a little bit of BEAST MODE."

"When you want those gains more than anything else."

"We are all in the gym to improve. To become better. Never look down on anyone."

"I just really like to lift things. Heavy things."

"Before each workout, each set and each rep.. Focus."

"Change your body by changing your thoughts."

"I may not be where I want to be, but thank god I am not where I used to be" - Big Ramy

"I fucking love to train."

"I can't keep calm. I got weights to lift."

"When it's just you and the iron. Nothing else."

"When you find someone that loves squats and deadlifts as much as you do."

"Gotta love the satisfaction of getting one more rep."

"When I go in the gym I go all in."

"Be consistent! Your body won't go where your mind doesn't push it. To change your life you need to change your priorities." - Tom Coleman

"To win my championship I must be willin and able to do champion-sh*t!"

"You will never be as big as you want to be unless you think big and lift big."

"Progress is not something you postpone for tomorrow. You improve. Today."

"There are no limits. The sooner you realize that the faster you'll make those gains."

"The pump. Gotta love the pump."

"That feeling when you finish a tough workout."

"Set Goals. Crush them. Repeat."

"All we have in this world is time. Don't waste it being anything but happy! Energy is contagious."

"Put your heart, mind and soul into it and your body will follow."

"No bullshit. No excuses. Just lift that shit."

"There is no giving up. You lift. And then you lift again. And again."

"The dumbell. Oh how I love thee."

"Success doesn't start in the gym. It starts in your mind."

"Lifting weights is a way of life. It's my life and I love it."

"Impossible is not a fucking word I use."

"I have absolutely no desire to be average."

"That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."

"Happiness is heavy. As in lifting heavy."

"Don't be afraid of hard work. It's your hard work that will pay off."

"Believe in yourself when you're in the gym. Believe you can and do it."

"Confidence breeds success. Believe in yourself when you are in the gym."

"Good is the enemy of great. Greatness is reserved for the truly hungry."

"How I prepare for a workout? I prepare for war."

"My love for the gym is limitless."

"Load some heavy fucking weight on and push yourself to the limit."

"There are no fucking limits."

"Addicted to gains."

"Life is too short to worry about anything. Work hard, love hard, have fun and lift heavy."

"Tomorrow I will destroy each and every single rep."

"Wake up, work out and make shit happen."

"I will give a 100% everyday to create my idea of what the human body ought to look like." - Tom Coleman

"Talk less. Lift more."

"The harder it is the more you're getting out of it."

"Put your heart, mind and body into each and every single rep. That's the secret to real success."

"Keep calm because every day is arms day."

When you hit the gym together, get all sweaty, then get home for a "bonus workout."

"Train like a beast today."

"The gym. Oh how I love the gym."

Replace "I can't" with "I will".

"Happy Friday! Let's lift some heavy shit today!"

"I just fucking love to lift!"

"It doesn't matter how many likes you get if you don't love yourself." - Joey Swoll

"Friday and Saturday nights in the gym? Hell yeah."

"It's a good day to have a great workout."

"Strive for progress. Every day."

"Great gains take time. Be patient and work hard. Everyday."

"Work hard in the gym and make it fucking happen."

Good things come to those who lift."

"Sundays are for cuddles and carbs."

"You can and you will. Lift heavy."

"One does not simply resist carbs."

"Choose to believe in yourself. Be optimistic. And never give up."

"Go after your dreams. No matter how big they are."

"In a year from now you will look back at yourself and be proud of what you have achieved."

"It takes dedication and hard work to constantly improve yourself."

"Let your desire to achieve success in the gym be your motivation."

"Gotta love the feeling of getting stronger."

"I like lifting weights. Heavy fucking weights."

"I'm not done until my muscles are screaming for mercy."

"New day. New workout. Same hardcore attitude."

"Treat your time as the most precious item you ever own as its gone rapidly and make sure you don't miss the boat by being lazy."

"Load the weight on and train hard. Push yourself until it hurts."

"It starts in your mind. We become what we think. Think big to get big."

"I want those gains. And I'm gonna fucking get them."

"To get to where I want to be there are no "off days", there's no "off season", I'm always ON!" - Sheena Jayne Martin

"Have confidence in your ability to improve yourself in the gym."

"Go into the gym and push yourself to the limit and do things you thought were impossible."

"Constantly challenge yourself in the gym."

"I'm not here to be average. I'm here to be the best that I can be."

"Work hard. Lift heavy. Make yourself proud."

"The pain motivates me."

"With great power comes great gains."

"It's not how much you lift, it's how well you lift it!"

"The successful ones are those who never give up."

“If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Try to always get at least one more rep. Always."

"Train with passion and intensity."

"Start by doing what's possible. Make gains until you're doing what was impossible."

"Work hard. Struggle. Experience success. Repeat."

"Fill your mind with positive thoughts before you enter the gym."

"I did not wake up today to be average."

"Your only limit is you. Be brave and fearless."