250 Fitness Quotes to Motivate You
Steve Shaw
250 Fitness Quotes to Drive Your Motivation and Workouts
1. "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
2. "If you were able to believe in Santa Claus for 8 years, you can believe in yourself for like 5 minutes."
3. "Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray. Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again." - Jack LaLanne
4. "One of the greatest moments in life is realizing your body can do today what it couldn't yesterday."
5. "The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do."
6. "You have a choice. You can throw in the towel or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face."
7. "The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
8. "Don't be ashamed of trying, every journey has to start somewhere!"
9. "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
10. "So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health." - A.J.Materi
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11. "You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work." - Hank Stram
12. "Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat." - Jill Johnson
13. "A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs." - Joan Welsh
14. "The hardest lift of all is lifting your butt off the couch."
15. "We all make mistakes. it's how we come back from the mistakes that matters."
16. "There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. don't allow yourself to become one of them."
17. "Character is who you are when no one's watching."
18. "Today is a brand new day; a fresh start. Replace any negativity with positivity; think happy thoughts."
19. "A feeble body weakens the mind." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
20. "I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind." - Martina Hingis
21. "Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse." - George A. Sheehan
22. "Fit is not a destination, it is a way of life."
23. "And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet." - Julie Bishop
24. "He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not." - Italian Proverb
25. "I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem." - Stone Gossard
26. "It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is." - Deborah Bull
27. "Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? That's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. don't give up."
28. "Muscles come and go; flab lasts." - Bill Vaughan
29. "The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor." - William Temple
30. "Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done." - Jim Rohn
31. "I'm not here to talk."
32. "There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been." - Hugh Jackman
33. "Sweat is just fat crying."
34. "Be stubborn about your goals, but flexible about your methods."
35. "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
36. "You have to push past your perceived limits, push past that point you thought was as far as you can go." - Drew Brees
37. "The pain of today is the victory of tomorrow."
38. "The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy. Learn to use the power wisely."
39. "I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best." - J.J. Watt
40. "When it starts to hurt, thats when the set starts."
41. "All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
42. "Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck."
43. "Doubt me, hate me, you're the inspiration I need."
44. "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
45. "If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied." - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
46. "Don't give up just because of what someone said. Use that as motivation to push harder."
47. "Sweat is just fat crying."
48. "To keep the body in good health is a duty. Otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." - Buddha
49. "You have to push past your perceived limits, push past that point you thought was as far as you can go." - Drew Brees
50. "Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure." - Sylvester Stallone
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51. "The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy." - Kenneth H. Cooper
52. "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain
53. "He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician." - Thomas Fuller
54. "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
55. "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
56. "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
57. "Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing" - Voltaire
58. "We run for the people who think they cant." - Dick Hoyt
59. "The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning ability to, and bics, meaning withstand tremendous boredom" - Dave Barry
60. "If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise."
61. "Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king." - Isaac Bickerstaff
62. "When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease." - V.L. Allinear
63. "An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school." - David Walters
64. "The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape."
65. "Most people give up right before the big break comes--don't let that person be you." - Michael Boyle
66. "I have two doctors, my left leg and my right." - G.M. Trevelyan
67. "Don't stop trying just because you've hit a wall. Progress is progress no matter how small."
68. "The gym doesn't ask silly questions. The gym understands."
69. "No matter who you are. No matter what you do. You absolutely, positively do have the power to change."
70. "People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem." - Chris Adams
71. "Don't give up what you want most, for what you want now."
72. "I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration, and took the time necessary to learn karate and became a world champion." - Chuck Norris
73. "Failure: It can destroy you or it can make you so freakin mad, that you'll work even harder."
74. "It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."
75. "Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy." - Vanessa Hudgens
76. "When times are difficult, remind yourself that no pain comes to you without a purpose."
77. "If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."
78. "Making excuses burns zero calories per day."
79. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
80. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.. Do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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