Unleash Your Potential: 50 Inspirational Quotes for Exercise

"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

"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

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

- Denis Morton

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Tunde Oyeneyin

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Never give up because great things take time."

- Adrian Williams

"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

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

- Mike Horn

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Kevin Hart

"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

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"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

"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

"What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow."

- Jay Cutler

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

- Khloe Kardashian

"I hate every minute of training. But I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Fred Devito

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

- Health Coach Maria Marlowe

"You can have results or excuses, but not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Matt McGorry

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

- Nelson Mandela

"You don’t have to be good at it, you just have to do it."

- Karine Candice Kong

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

- Drew Brees

"In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up."

- Rich Froning Jr.

"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

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

- Jess Sims

"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

"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."

- Alex Toussaint

"Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Jack LaLanne

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

- Michael Phelps

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there—as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice."

- Oprah

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

- Michael Jordan

"When you hit failure, your workout has just begun."

- Ronnie Coleman

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll probably have to make time for illness."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Jim Ryun

"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

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."

- Jim Rohn

"If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for 20 years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run."

- John Bingham

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"It's not so much that I began to run, but that I continued."

- Hal Higdon

"Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded."

- Wayne Dye

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Venus Williams

"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."

- Henry Rollins

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

- Ghandi

"It’s not what you do once in a while; it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."

- Jenny Craig

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts."

- Dan John

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

- Ronda Rousey

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

- Kai Greene

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

- Confucius

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind."

- Rory McIlroy

"Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed."

- Misty Copeland

"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

"It's going to be a journey. It's not a sprint to get in shape."

- Kerri Walsh Jennings

"I don’t diet and exercise. I eat and train."

- J.R. Rim

"The road to nowhere is paved with excuses."

- Mark Bell

"Stimulate don’t annihilate."

- Lee Haney

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

- Anon

"A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material."

- Serge Nubret

"You will never always be motivated. You have to learn to be disciplined."

- Anon

"The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell."

- Craig Cecil

"I think it's good to see somebody saying: I have a belly. And I have cellulite. And I still deserve love."

- Amy Schumer

"The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow."

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

"Good things come to those who sweat."

"If you're tired of starting over—quit giving up."

"What seems impossible today will one day become your warmup."