100+ Inspirational Health and Fitness Quotes to Motivate Your Journey

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

- Samuel Johnson

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Karen Lamb

"A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself."

- Deena Kastor

"If you do not believe in yourself, no one will do it for you."

- Kobe Bryant

"Our bodies are gardens, our wills are our gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!"

- Jillian Michaels

"Time, Effort, Sacrifice, and Sweat. How will you pay for your goals?"

- Usain Bolt

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks, will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."

- Jimmy Dugan

"The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit."

- Morihei Ueshiba

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The groundwork for all happiness is good health."

- Leigh Hunt

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

"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."

- Florence Griffith Joyner

"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

"If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The real workout starts when you want to stop."

- Ronnie Coleman

"I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Once you are exercising regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it."

- Erin Gray

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"You’re going to have to let it hurt. Let it suck. The harder you work, the better you will look. Your appearance isn’t parallel to how heavy you lift, it’s parallel to how hard you work."

- Joe Mangianello

"Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment."

- Vince Lombardi

"You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied."

- Dwayne Johnson

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, just pretend that you do and at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

"The harder you work and the more prepared you are for something, you’re going to be able to persevere through anything."

- Carli Lloyd

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

- Vince Lombardi

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure."

- Sylvester Stallone

"Workout till you feel that pain and soreness in muscles. This one is good pain. No pain, no gain."

- Invajy

"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

"What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow."

- Jay Cutler

"You must expect things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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

"When you have a clear vision of your goal, it’s easier to take the first step toward it."

- LL Cool J

"You have to think about it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible."

- Kai Greene

"Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed."

- LeBron James

"You should never stay at the same level. Always push yourself to the next."

- Marnelli Dimzon

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

- Fred DeVito

"You can either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."

- Jim Rohn

"We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give."

- Simone Biles

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

- Michael Phelps

"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

"Keep working even when no one is watching."

- Alex Morgan

"Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen. Together you have a kingdom."

- Jack LaLanne

"Don’t dream of winning. Train for it!"

- Mo Farah

"Most people give you right before the big break comes, don’t let that person be you."

- Michael Boyle

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Khloe Kardashian

"Keep listening to your body. It will tell you when something is not okay."

- Emily Infeld

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t. you are right."

- Henry Ford

"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."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Winston Churchill

"Your mind will quit a thousand times before your body will."

- Reginald Red

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

- Serena Williams

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop until you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase."

- Joseph Pilates

"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

"You shall gain, but you shall pay with sweat, blood, and vomit."

- Pavel Tsatsouline

"You have to push past your perceived limits, push past that point you thought was as far as you can go."

- Drew Brees

"Get ready, be prepared. So when opportunities finally show themselves, you’ll be able to own them."

- Hannah Gabriels

"Be Humble. Be Hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room."

- Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."

- Hippocrates

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

- World Health Organization

"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

"The greatest wealth is health."

- Virgil

"You are what you eat."

- Ancient Chinese proverb

"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results."

- Anthony Robbins

"Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries."

- Mark Halperin

"Health is a state of body. Wellness is a state of being."

- J. Stanford

"The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy."

- Kenneth H. Cooper

"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

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basic of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."

- John F. Kennedy

"Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind."

- Nelson Mandela

"Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being."

- Greg Anderson

"We are what we repeatedly eat. Healthy eating is not an act, but a habit."

- Felicity Luckey

"Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but because of lack of commitment."

- Vince Lombardi

"The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations."

- Michael K. Williams

"I am. I can. I will. I do."

- Christine D’Ercole

"Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out."

- Jack LaLanne

"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."

- Oprah Winfrey

"What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. … Success is often just around the corner."

- James Dyson

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

- Jesse Owens

"Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I'm possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

"Treat your body like someone you love."

- Hannah Corbin

"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying."

- Tony Robbins

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

- Steve Prefontaine

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

"If you don't fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like?"

- Steph Curry

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

"Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you."

- Mark Cuban

"Your mind is your strongest muscle."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

"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

"What we face may look insurmountable, but what I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. 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."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Fred Devito

"Train insane or remain the same."

- Jillian Michaels

"Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you."

- Jack LaLanne

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Jerry Dunn

"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

"I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done."

- David Goggins

"I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health."

- Voltaire

"The groundwork for all happiness is health."

- Leigh Hunt

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"A goal is a wish. A standard holds you accountable."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

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

- Babe Ruth

"You’ve survived 100 percent of your worst days."

- Robin Arzón

"Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t."

- Jerry Rice

"If something stands between you and your success, move it."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."

- Alex Toussaint

"Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard."

- Serena Williams

"The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking."

- Mia Hamm

"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."

- Albert Camus

"The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus."

- Bruce Lee

"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone."

- Tony Robbins

"The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

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

- Marvin Phillips

"Acknowledge the fear and do it anyway."

- Emma Lovewell

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want."

- Alessandra Ambrosio

"Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy."

- Bella Bleue

"A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health."

- Dalai Lama

"Your body hears everything your mind says."

- Naomi Judd

"You can’t put a limit on how much you can improve and how much you can do. There are no limits on what you can be, or what you can do, except the limits you place on yourself."

- Brian Tracy

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It’s not coincidence that four of the six letter in health are heal."

- Ed Northstrum

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"Today is your day to start fresh, to eat right, to train hard, to live healthy, to be proud."

- Bonnie Pfiester

"We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising."

- Dr Kenneth Cooper

"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional and mental states."

- Caroline Myss

"What mental health needs are more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation."

- Glenn Close

"The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind."

- Richard Davidson

"A fit, healthy body – that is the best fashion statement."

- Jess C. Scott

"I’ve always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you’re capable of taking risks. … You’ll feel more deserving of love."

- Jillian Michaels

"Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness."

- Edward Smith Stanley

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

- Khloe Kardashian

"For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being."

- Rakul Preet Singh

"It is exercise alone that supports the spirit, and keeps the mind in vigor."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The desire of activity is designed by nature to promote our physical well-being. Physical activity is the law of physical health."

- Edward Brooks

"The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change."

- Matt McGorry

"Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul."

- Susie Michelle Cortright

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

- Plato

"I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes."

- Peggy Fleming

"Moderate exercise is indispensable; exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue."

- Socrates

"Wholesome exercise in the free air, under the wide sky, is the best medicine for body and spirit."

- Sarah Louise Arnold

"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united."

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

"A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs."

- Joan Welsh

"Working out makes me feel strong and energized every time. It’s my therapy for my mind and my body."

- Stacy Keibler

"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."

- Edward Stanley

"Working out is not a luxury; it’s a necessity."

- Marisa Miller

"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states."

- Carol Welch

"Most of us think we don’t have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don’t have time not to."

- Stephen Covey

"People with fitness goals succeed because they know where they’re going."

- Felicity Lucky

"When I feel tired, I just think about how great I will feel once I finally reach my goal."

- Michael Phelps

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Gene Tunney

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Anonymous

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

- Greg Plitt

"Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Gene Tunney

"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

"It is remarkable how one’s wits are sharpened by physical exercise."

- Pliny the Younger

"It’s challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise."

- Joely Fisher

"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Be savage, not average."

- Cody Rigsby

"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."

- Hugh Blair

"People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that’s the problem."

- Chris Adams

"If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful."

- Kevin Hart

"The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible."

- Mike Horn

"Never give up because great things take time."

- Adrian Williams

"I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn't exist."

- Shaquille O'Neal

"If you think you can’t, change your mind."

- Denis Morton

"Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body."

- Cher

"The hardest part is over. You showed up."

- Jess Sims

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

- Richard Steele

"Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy."

- Vanessa Hudgens

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

- Julius Erving

"Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong."

- Mark Rippetoe

"Breathing correctly is the key to better fitness, muscle strength, stamina and athletic endurance."

- Michael Yessis

"When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ Tomorrow is disease."

- V.L. Allinear

"Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard work out on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle."

- Cher

"Walking is cheap, fun, safe and acceptable exercise."

- Annie Taylor

"We can’t control the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sails."

- Jimmy Dean

"Things seem to work out better all around when I’m working out."

- Terri Guillemets

"There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."

- Bill Bowerman

"I’ll never be perfect, but I can be better. Today, I’m focusing on improvement, not perfection."

- Bonnie Pfiester

"Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it."

- Alan Thicke

"Your passion will propel you."

- Alex Toussaint

"I have two doctors: my left leg and my right."

- G.M. Trevelyan

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

- Oprah

"If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all."

- Joey Adams

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

- Marvin Phillips

"Believe you can, and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow."

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."

- Unknown

"You did not wake up today to be mediocre."

"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started."

- Unknown

"If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up."

- Unknown

"A year from now, you will wish you had started today."

"Every workout is progress."

"Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up."

"The mind and body are not separate. What affects one, affects the other."

- Unknown

"Consistency is more important than perfection."

"A little progress each day adds up to big results."

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

"Think of your workouts as important meetings you schedule with yourself. Bosses don’t cancel."

"Believe in yourself, and you will be unstoppable."

"You are stronger than you think."

"You don’t have to be extreme. Just consistent."

"Three little words: You've Got This."

"Walk away from every workout feeling proud, accomplished, and strong as hell."

"Making excuses burns zero calories per hour."

"Your Workout: Your Time. Your Body. Own It."