100+ Inspirational Quotes for Fitness Motivation

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“Your limitation—it's only your imagination.” – Unknown

“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Unknown

“Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Unknown

“Dream it. Believe it. Build it.” – Unknown

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” – Lao Tzu

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“Man is the measure of all things.” – Protagoras

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – Augustine of Hippo

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” – Heraclitus

“What we think, we become.” – Buddha

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.” – Khalil Gibran

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

“You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, frustrated, or anxious.” – Unknown

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” – Unknown

“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” – Akshay Dubey

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.” – Neil Gaiman

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“To create one must be willing to be strung up, to be heartbroken.” – Frieda Kahlo

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

“Don’t think. Just do. Creation is divine. Execution is human.” – Unknown

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” – Pablo Picasso

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Love makes a short absence long, and a long presence short.” – Friedrich von Hardenberg

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou

“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.” – Unknown

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho

“Change is the only constant in life.” – Heraclitus

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.” – Jessica Hagedorn

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein

“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” – Robin Sharma

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Strength does not come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” – Elizabeth Edwards

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” – Unknown

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Gavin Webster

“I'm on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it.” – Unknown

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey

“I’m not lazy, I’m just conserving energy for later.” – Unknown

“I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.” – Unknown

“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” – Emo Philips

“I hate morning people. Especially when I wake up early.” – Unknown

“I’m not short. I’m concentrated awesome.” – Unknown

“My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.” – Unknown

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin (paraphrased)

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” – Malala Yousafzai

“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher

“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” – Michelle Obama

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

“You don’t have to be pretty like her. You don’t have to be smart like him. You just have to be you.” – Beyoncé

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“Feminism is not about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” – G.D. Anderson

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” – Janis Joplin

“We must build a society in which every girl—and every human being—can reach their full potential.” – Jacinda Ardern

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Henri Bergson

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin

“The most dangerous prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.” – David Icke

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” – B.F. Skinner

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus