Empowering Words: A Curated Collection of Inspirational Female Fitness Quotes

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you give it your all, you can hold your head high and be proud of yourself, no matter what the outcome."

- Jillian Michaels

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not to do."

- Marge Piercy

"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Strength does not come from the physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Ghandi

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are."

- Anthony Robbins

"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph."

- Marvin Phillips

"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

"You don’t have to be great to start, you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

- Karen Lamb

"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

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable."

- Zig Ziglar

"It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs."

- Jillian Michaels

"The best part about fitness goals is when others are inspired to set and reach goals of their own because they saw you succeed."

- Cami

"I push myself to be the best I can be. I don’t worry about what other people are doing, and I don’t think about things I can’t control."

- Annika Sorenstam

"There is always going to be a reason why you can’t do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams."

- Shannon Miller

"Strong women lift each other and weights."

- unknown

"As much time as you put into it, that’s what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it."

- Mary Lou Retton

"The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."

- John Bingham

"Don’t compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to the person you were yesterday."

- Jordan Peterson

"I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don’t."

- Neila Rey

"Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits."

- Jerry Dunn

"Every morning I am a beginner."

- Hanya Holm

"Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent."

- Venus Williams

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

- George S. Halas

"Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Liane Cardes

"You are stronger than you think, braver than you believe, and smarter than you know."

- A.A. Milne

"One workout at a time. One day at a time. One meal at a time."

- Chalene Johnson

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

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

- Greg Plitt

"They say discipline and dedication and respect are the key factors, but patience is a virtue that is absolutely essential!"

- Ria Ramnarine

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

- Khloe Kardashian

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

"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

"I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday."

- Anonymous

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

- M. Kathleen Casey

"A strong mindset is the best accessory for an awesome workout."

- Cami

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"All great achievements require time."

- Maya Angelou

"Slow and steady wins the race."

- Aesop

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

- Dean Karnazes

"Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?"

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again."

- Michael Jordan

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t."

- Jack Dempsey

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Michael Phelps

"Don’t workout because you think you ‘need’ to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention."

- Demi Lovato

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you always put a limit 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

"Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed."

- Mia Hamm

"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

"Today I will do what others don’t, so that tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t"

- Jerry Rice

"If you make exercise your hobby instead of your enemy it becomes your friend; it’s the one thing that will never let you down. It will always be there for you and it will always make you better than you were before. Remember every time you go to the gym, every time you put the right supplement in your mouth, you’re better than you were ten minutes ago. […] The irony is most people know what to do, they just don’t do what they know."

- Sylvester Stallone

"When you know better, you do better."

- Maya Angelou

"I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you."

- Joyce Meyer

"The key to women’s health is for women to listen to their body, and to move in line with their natural rhythms."

- Jarron Aizen

"The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it."

- Erin Gray

"It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen."

- Anonymous

"All the physical comes from the mental."

- Clara Hughes

"Exercise should be regarded as a tribute to the heart."

- Gene Tunney

"I’ll always think about what I could have done better. Could I have come up on the net? Been more consistent? It’s not anger. It’s analyzing: What can I do next time?"

- Serena Williams

"If I can do it. You can do it. It all starts with day 1! It’s a lifestyle now."

- Khloe Kardashian

"If you have a body, you are an athlete!"

- Bill Bowerman

"If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it."

- Mary Engelbreit

"Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments."

- Bethenny Frankel

"She believed she could, so she did."

- R. S. Grey

"Your comfort zone is where dreams go to die."

- Cami

"Working out as a mom is the best, because your kids are never going to judge how many squats you can or can’t do."

- Cami

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

- Buddha

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Jim Rohn

"The greatest wealth is health."

- Virgil

"Happiness is the highest form of health."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you."

- Fred Devito

"Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel."

- Eleanor Brownn

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Being a healthy, happy, and fit mom may seem impossible today, but six years from now you’ll thank yourself for starting."

- Anonymous

"I have to exercise in the morning before my brain has a chance to figure out what I’m doing."

- Marsha Doble

"The workout I do with my toddler is easy. It’s called “I chase them down while they scream and giggle after they did something they weren’t supposed to.”"

- Cami

"Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince."

- Anon

"Yoga is not about touching your toes, it’s about what you learn on the way down."

- Jigar Gor

"The early morning has gold in its mouth."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Exercise is labor without weariness."

- Samuel Johnson

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The body achieves what the mind believes."

- Florence Griffith Joyner

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

- Bret Contreras

"It’s not about being the best. It’s about being better than you were yesterday."

"It is a shame for a woman to grow old without ever seeing the strength and beauty of which her body is capable."

"Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do, not a punishment for what you ate."

"Workout because you love your body, not because you hate it."

"Your fitness is 100% mental! If your mind doesn’t push harder, your body goes nowhere."

"What seems impossible today will one day become your warm-up."

- Unknown

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

"Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. People can’t stop you. Only you can stop you."

- Unknown

"You’ve always been beautiful. Now you’re just deciding to be healthier, fitter, faster, and stronger. Remember that."

"What seems impossible today will become your warm-up for tomorrow."

"I’m not trying for a 5K. I’m not preparing for a competition. I’m not trying to set a new record. I’m not trying to impress you. I’m saving my life."

"Your actions, and your actions alone, determines your worth."

"When you start feeling the PAIN, that’s when EVERYTHING starts!"

"Challenging yourself everyday is one of the most exciting ways to live."

"Dedicate one of them to becoming a stronger, better version of yourself."

"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."

"It is easy to find strong women. They are the ones who are seen in the gym!"

"Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they worked on it every single day."

"There is no perfect time. No perfect opportunity. No perfect situation. No perfect moment. You either make it happen, or you don’t. You don’t wait for it to fall in your lap. You take it."

"Fight for your dream, believe in yourself and learn how to encourage and build yourself up. Don’t take it personally, when you are misunderstood or brushed off. Keep your eye on the prize and push forward."

"Your fitness is 100% mental! If your mind doesn’t push harder, your body goes nowhere!"

"There’s no substitute for hard work. If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat, but you’ll never lose."

"First, they will laugh. Then they will copy. Don’t give up."

"Slow progress is better than no progress."

"You Dont know your limits until you push yourself."

"If you want a beautiful body, then be ready for the pain, there is no beauty without it at all."

"Of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great."

"I will make sweat my best accessory! I will run harder than my mascara!"

"Physical activity isn’t merely the most significant key to a healthy human body; it is the basis of a dynamic and creative intellectual activity."

"Don’t let the weekend become your weak end."

"If you still look good at the end of your workout, you didn’t train hard enough."

"I will beat her. I will train harder. I will eat cleaner. I know her weaknesses. I know her strengths. I’ve lost to her before, but not this time. She’s going down. I have the advantage because I know her well. She is the old me."

"A one-hour workout is 4% of your day. No Excuses."

"Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Work hard. Good results will come."

"Once you start to see results, it becomes an addiction."

"You have the potential to make beautiful things."

"Remember this: Your body is your slave. It works for you."

"Exercise not only changes your body, it changes your mind, your attitude and your mood."

"Note to Self: You gotta do this for you. This is for you. This isn’t about anybody. Live for you. Honor you. Never lose sight of that."

"Keep your squats low and your standards high."

"Excuses don’t get results"

"Fitness is like a relationship; you can’t cheat and expect it to work."

"Be stronger than your excuses."

"Strong women don’t have attitudes. They have standards."

- Unknown

"Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you."

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

"Life has its ups and downs; we call them squats."

"I don’t sweat, I sparkle!"

"Taking off a sweaty sports bra should count as resistance training."

"Run like there’s a hot guy in front of you and a creepy one behind you."

"Train like a beast, look like a beauty."

"Strive for progress, not perfection."

"Eating well is a form of self-respect."

"Being a mom isn’t my excuse for not working out; it’s my reason to push harder."

- Unknown

"Your children will follow your example, not your advice. Stay healthy and fit."

- Unknown

"In the gym, every woman is an athlete."

- Unknown

"Be your own competition; push yourself to be better than you were yesterday."

- Unknown

"Love yourself enough to live a healthy lifestyle."

- Unknown

"Wake up, lace up, show up."

- Unknown

"There’s no such thing as a bad workout."

"Strong is not just physical strength. Strong is also heart, mind, and soul."

- Unknown

"Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits."

"Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself."

"My body isn’t magazine perfect, but when I look in the mirror, I see a mom…and there is no greater honor, love or blessing."

"Sweat now, shine later."

- Unknown

"Sore? Tired? Out of breath? Good… it’s working."

- Unknown

"Together we achieve more."

- Unknown

"Your fitness is a dance. It just needs to be in tune with your heart."

- Unknown

"A one-hour workout is 4% of your day. No excuses."

- Unknown

"Strong moms raise strong kids."

- Unknown

"Dance enables you to find yourself and lose yourself at the same time."

"Good things come to those who sweat."

"Find joy in the journey."

"Exercise? I thought you said extra fries!"

- Unknown

"Does running late count as cardio?"

- Unknown

"I workout because I really, really like food."

- Unknown

"I’m not sweating, I’m sparkling."

- Unknown

"I’m in a relationship with my fitness routine. We argue, but it’s worth it."

- Unknown

"Workout because you love your body not because you hate it."

"I don’t sweat, I sparkle."

"If you ever feel like giving up, just remember, there is a little girl watching you…who wants to be just like you!"

"Sweat is magic. Cover yourself in it daily to grant your wishes."

- Unknown

"If you think wellness is expensive, try illness."

- Unknown