20 Fired Up Fitness Quotes to Motivate You Before Your Workout Session

Last modified: June 6, 2019

When it’s time to work out, we often lose heart. Practice needs will, focus, and most importantly a sense of direction. Whatever your goal might be, wherever you want to get by running on the treadmill or flexing those muscles, you have to remember that it takes a strong heart and a clear point to reach.

Our collection of original fitness quotes will always remind you the true value of your next workout and the importance of staying fit and healthy. That’s when you know you should -once more- give your very best.

1. Don’t stop until you’re proud.

Our way of life sometimes harms our body or makes it change in many undesired ways. Exercising often has to do with rectifying a sense of wrong that has been done to your body.

Keep on working out – not because you have to reach a certain standard of beauty set by other, but because you should always feel you have a healthy body and feel happy with the way it looks.

Don’t stop until you’re proud.

2. Be the girl who decided to go for it.

If you feel society is asking a lot of unfair things from you, chances are, you’re a woman.

Working out is also a symbol of freedom of will, a proof of equality, and a statement of strength in a world that is struggling to be truthful and fair.

Be the girl who decided to go for it.

3. Excuses are for people who don’t want it bad enough.

Finding excuses is a natural human mechanism when we want to escape, but why escape from a place you want to arrive in?

Procrastination is a modern symptom of disorientation. However, if you stay true to yourself, you will always remember that if you really want to accomplish something, there is a way.

Excuses are for people who don’t want it bad enough.

4. It never gets easier. You just get stronger.

It’s true what they say, “no pain, no gain” – and you will often roll your eyes and sigh when it’s time for another set of exercises. However, every repetition is one step further along the road you have chosen, and your experience builds up. It is exactly this experience that gives you the strength to overcome the obstacles next time.

Finding it easier to practice, run, stretch or lift means that you are getting closer to the goal you have set.

It never gets easier. You just get stronger.

5. It hurts, but one day it will be your warm up.

Putting so much effort on something can seem unnatural or against what your body tells you. Yet, we should know our bodies lie, too. The human body always tries to find simpler ways to make a movement, often taking any pain away. This creates a certain association: too much pain can be alarming.

However, when you or your coach know exactly the right way to do an exercise, a minor pain might be the proof that you are taking some steps to the right direction. So, one day your body will capable of easily performing what once looked impossibly hard.

It hurts but one day it will be your warm up.

6. Did you work out today?

Every day, every hour and every minute is the right time to work out. Whether you’re on a trip, or you just have a pair of running shoes, or if it’s too early or too late, you can practice – and some practice is better than none.

The rest is an excuse that will distance us from our target, which affects no one but ourselves.

Did you work out today?

7. No magic involved. You work out, stay consistent and you will get fit.

Managing to get fit has no secret recipes that are somewhere kept locked in a drawer.

Sure, getting to know how to train properly might take some time and assistance in the beginning, but, as long as we can work out effectively, all it takes is persistence.

No magic involved. You work out, stay consistent and you will get fit.

8. Strength does not come from a physical capacity. It comes for an indomitable will. Mahatma Ghandi

Persistence is really the key, as Ghandi puts it

Whether you’ve got your two feet or not, as long as there is will, you can get over any lack of resources – and few things can stop you.

Strength does not come from a physical capacity. It comes for an indomitable will. Mahatma Ghandi

9. Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits. Jerry Dunn

Achieving more is not about avoiding effort or mistakes. It’s all about pushing yourself to another position, a new way of see, trying, and doing things.

That is the reason why limiting your efforts is counterproductive when you exercise: it’s all about going that challenging extra mile.

Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits. Jerry Dunn

10. Make fitness your favorite habit.

Why do we really roll down to destructive addictions when there are so many positive habits to have?

Working out is all about embracing the potential of your body and mind, and moving along that healthy path.

Make fitness your favorite habit.

11. Find your why and no excuses will come between you and your goals.

Again, we all work out for different reasons, whether it’s health, looks, balance of the mind, rehabilitation, socialization, or anything else.

Only if we are sure why we do it will our workout sessions make sense, and the goal we set will seem more reachable.

Find your why and no excuses will come between you and your goals.

12. You don’t get what you wish for. You get what you work for.

Results are not something you get by hoping. It’s clearly something that comes through effort and persistence.

This means that the more you work out, the faster you are going to get to the point you had aimed at.

You don’t get what you wish for. You get what you work for.

13. People only see the results, but they don’t see the effort.

Just like everything else, working out may often include failure, mistakes, frustration and pain.

Don’t expect these things to show, so don’t expect any recognition for the effort – exactly because the final result stands out.

People only see the results, but they don’t see the effort.

14. Exercise not only changes your body. It changes your mind, your attitude and your mood.

As you may have heard, working out is not only about getting fit and staying fit.

Exercising is also about taking up a positive hobby, cashing out the efforts for a better future, and actively participating in something that changes your life in the long term.

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

15. If you’re tired, learn to rest, not quit.

Going on and never giving up is key to the success during workout sessions.

Stopping for a moment is probably ok. On the other hand, using being tired as an excuse for stopping completely shows lack of focus and distances you from your goal.

If you’re tired, learn to rest, not quit.

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

That is 100% true! After working out, regret is out of question. But when you have unjustifiably skipped a workout session, get prepared for guilt, bad mood, and a body longing for the next time’s kick.

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

17. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford

It’s amazing what our mind makes us do. This quote by Henry Ford means that whether you make an effort to achieve a goal or if you avoid trying, your mind is the one to guide you to the decision – so use properly.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford

18. Exercising is a blessing, not a chore. I work out and I’m grateful that I physical can.

Working out is never about someone imposing something on us. It is someone helping us achieve something that we have decided ourselves, so that we enjoy the results in the future.

Exercising is an investment which you are going to be thankful for.

Exercising is a blessing not a chore. I workout and I’m grateful that I physical can.

19. It’s a slow process but quitting won’t speed it up.

In this fast-paced era of automation and quick results, we often getting carried away and expect results from day one.

Working out usually involves accepting the idea that we have to dedicate time and remain focused in order to get what we want.

It’s a slow process but quitting won’t speed it up.

20. It’s pretty simple. Either you do it, or you don’t.

Setting all intentions, hopes, plans, fears and frustrations aside, in the end, it’s pretty simple: working out is something you have actively put in your life or something you’re constantly postponing whatever the reasons.

Exercise will definitely not help you if you only talk about it or if you put it in your schedule and then find an excuse to skip it.