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194 Friday Workout Quotes To Help You Achieve Your Fitness Goal

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194 Friday Workout Quotes To Help You Achieve Your Fitness Goal

What motivates you to exercise every day? Is it because you want to look good or stay fit? 

Or maybe you simply love being outdoors? Whatever your motivation, it’s important to get moving regularly.

The benefits of regular exercise go beyond looking better and feeling healthier. 

Regular exercise helps reduce stress levels, improves sleep quality, boosts energy and increases concentration.

In this article, we’re going to give you hundreds of quotes on the topic of working out that will motivate you to keep up with your fitness routine.

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194 Friday Fitness Motivation Quotes To Help You Achieve Your Fitness Goal

  1. “Exercise is a way of life. It’s not just something you do once in a while. You have to make it part of your daily routine. If you don’t, then you’ll never see any results.”
  2. “If you are serious about getting into shape, you must be willing to put forth some effort.”
  3. “Don’t wait until tomorrow; start today.”
  4. “Take a few moments each day to relax and enjoy the positive effects of exercising.”
  5. “When you’re training for a marathon, you can’t afford to waste time on trivial matters. The only thing that counts is how much longer you last than all the other runners.”
  6. The best form of exercise is one that works your body as well as your mind.”
  7. “Regular exercise makes us strong mentally, emotionally and physically.”
  8. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.”
  9. “A little bit of exercise goes a very long way toward keeping you healthy.”
  10. “I think there is no greater gift than health…the ability to feel good, live freely without pain and disease.”
  11. To become fitter, there are two things that are necessary: firstly, you must move; secondly, you must work hard at it.
  12. “You need to find an activity that really suits you; otherwise you won’t stick to it.”
  13. “There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a young man run his fastest.”
  14. “Physical fitness should be cultivated from youth upwards. Such habits give tone, vigor, and grace to the whole soul.”
  15. “Our bodies are not houses; they are temples of the spirit.”
  16. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
  17. Stress and anxiety may cause heart attacks and strokes. Exercise reduces both stress and anxiety.”
  18. “We must learn to use our bodies before they wear out. We must practice living lightly and joyfully.”
  19. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
  20. “No great genius has ever existed without a degree of madness. Great achievements require great insanity.”
  21. If you are determined to succeed, you will make it happen.
  22. “It is important to know what kind of person you are. You know what kind of people you like and don’t like. Learn from them.”
  23. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
  24. Every moment lost means a future where you were unable to achieve your goals — or worse, where you were able to achieve them and didn’t even appreciate them. Don’t lose another moment.”
  25. “The greatest challenge we face is choosing between what is easy and comfortable and what is right and difficult.”
  26. Your attitude determines whether you will defeat obstacles in your path, overcome challenges, achieve success, or wallow in self-pity.
  27. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
  28. Never let the fear of striking out get in the way of doing anything worth doing.
  29. “Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
  30. “We can never cross the sea until we have learned to row.”
  31. “You can always tell a truly honest person by their smile.”
  32. “When you stop believing in something, all those things you once believed in aren’t there anymore.”
  33. “What’s done cannot be undone. The only thing you can do is choose how you’re going to react today.”
  34. “As soon as he was born, he wanted to see everything. He learned fast and could talk right away.”
  35. “Forget about the size of the dog in the fight, if you want to win, pick up the smaller one by its ears and throw him into the ring.”
  36. “Don’t confuse movement with action. Action implies progress, while movement is merely change of direction. Progress demands change of direction every day. To stay on track requires continuous change of direction. If you remain motionless, you cease being successful.”
  37. “People who make mistakes generally don’t keep making them the same way over and over again.”
  38. “To reach for the stars is the privilege of youth. To set such high goals is the mark of maturity.”
  39. “I am convinced there are no limits to human achievement when human beings work together with dedication to a single aim.”
  40. “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
  41. “You can have everything in this world you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
  42. Success is 90% hard work and 10% luck.
  43. “A man should look for what is before him and not for what might possibly be after him.”
  44. “I think I can, I think I can!” – A young boy with his first bike.
  45. “Sometimes you need to try new things in order to learn what you already know.”
  46. “When you hit rock bottom, the only solution is to move forward.”
  47. “Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
  48. There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
  49. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
  50. “In my experience, the biggest obstacle to getting somewhere in life isn’t the actual physical distance between where you are and wherever you want to go — it’s our imagination.”
  51. “If you believe in yourself and trust your own abilities, you’ll succeed even against all odds.”
  52. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
  53. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising each time we fall.”
  54. “There’s so much beauty in the world if you only open your eyes to it.”
  55. “It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t turn back.”
  56. “Happiness is doing what you like and liking what you do.”
  57. “Never give up! Even if you fail 1,000 times, you’ll still be better off than you were before you started.”
  58. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
  59. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
  60. “It’s okay to say ‘no’, but only if you’re willing to say ‘yes’ to something else that’s important instead.”
  61. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
  62. “We’ve got to stop thinking about ourselves as victims and start acting like agents of change.”
  63. One must have suffered greatly to gain wisdom; but those who suffer without gaining any knowledge are mere fools.
  64. “I have had failures, but I have never failed to recover.”
  65. “What the mind can conceive and believe, the body can achieve.”
  66. “Everything is energy, therefore anything is possible.”
  67. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
  68. “No problem can ever be solved at its current level of difficulty. You have to solve it at a higher level.”
  69. “Remember: No pain, no gain.”
  70. “Most obstacles are not really insurmountable; they are merely uncomfortable.”
  71. “Let us face facts squarely. We are surrounded by problems which no man has yet been able to solve completely. But we also have a choice. We can choose to accept these problems as inevitable, or we can choose to make them unnecessary.”
  72. “The most common way people give up their power is by believing some myth about themselves.”
  73. You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.
  74. “Dreams come true for those who dare to dream, and dare to live the dreams while they are dreaming.”
  75. “To conquer fear, think of the worst thing possibly happening, then double it. Then add 50% to it. Now multiply this number by 10. This is your worst-case scenario. It will probably happen. Now multiply the answer by two.”
  76. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
  77. “Nothing worthwhile in this world can be accomplished without enthusiasm.”
  78. “Don’t let the noise of others destroy your inner voice. Let the noise transform into music that echoes inside you.”
  79. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change.”
  80. If you find yourself wishing you could change places with someone else, it might mean you need a new perspective on what you want out of life.”
  81. “People often refuse to see what is right in front of them because they are looking through rose coloured glasses.”
  82. “Success leaves clues, failure ignores them.”
  83. “Sometimes there are no good choices; sometimes there are many bad ones.”
  84. “The first step toward solving a problem is recognizing there’s one.”
  85. “All my life I’ve tried to be somebody else. I finally realized I’m nobody.”
  86. There’s always more than one solution to a problem, but there is only one right solution.
  87. “Don’t try to solve a problem before it occurs. If you wait until disaster strikes, you’ll be too late to do anything about it.”
  88. We all have within us a bit of heaven waiting to manifest itself in our lives. All we have to do is ask for it.”
  89. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking.”
  90. “Change begins with you.”
  91. “When the student is ready the teacher appears.”
  92. “It takes courage to grow.”
  93. “When you don’t know where to go next, follow your heart.”
  94. “It may take years to develop yourself, but only seconds to ruin yourself.”
  95. As soon as you feel like giving up, just remember why you started.
  96. “Even when you’re losing hope, hang on…you never know when things are going to turn around.”
  97. “Happiness depends upon ourselves. Others cannot bring happiness to us. Only we can create happiness in our own self.”
  98. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
  99. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
  100. “I am no longer afraid of the future, because I am living now.”
  101. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
  102. “Give me a child till he is seven and I shall show him how to become a man.”
  103. “Be careful what you pretend to believe, because you may end up pretending to believe something you really don’t believe.”
  104. “Doing so much work doesn’t necessarily make you free. You still have to do the hardest kind of work – the inner work – to awaken your soul.”
  105. “Whatever you fail to understand or appreciate, you miss. Whatever you grasp easily, you possess.”
  106. “You must learn to live each day as if it were your last.”
  107. If you are able to love yourself unconditionally, then nothing will ever break your spirit again.
  108. “In order to succeed, you must put aside the feeling that there is any other choice.”
  109. “When you think of your goals, visualize success. Visualize every detail of your accomplishment.”
  110. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
  111. “The purpose of our life is to discover precisely who we are…”
  112. To thine own self be true.”
  113. The key to a successful life is simple: Know where you want to go, set a specific path and keep moving forward.
  114. “Dreams come true when you act on them.”
  115. “Every cloud has a silver lining.”
  116. “Your mind is like an infinite ocean, and your thoughts are like waves lapping at the shoreline of your consciousness. When you don’t pay attention to the vastness of this ocean, your thoughts start to run wild and chaotic.”
  117. “Just as you cannot see the forest through the trees, you cannot change your past unless you understand its present context.”
  118. “Nothing happens by chance; everything happens for a reason.”
  119. “One way to help prevent cancer is to eat a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables.”
  120. Sometimes you need to lose friends to find new ones.
  121. You can either stay stagnant in mediocrity or choose an extraordinary adventure in life.”
  122. “There are two ways to avoid temptation: Don’t sin, or don’t get tempted.”
  123. “The important thing in life is not whether you get knocked down,… It’s whether you get back up.”
  124. “We all have two choices: We can either trust or not trust.”
  125. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.”
  126. “The essence of life is to find your gift, and use it wisely.”
  127. “Many people spend their whole lives trying to achieve a few minutes of joy, but they’ll die contented and happy while thinking they could have had more.”
  128. “Don’t let others dictate your destiny. Live your dreams.”
  129. “Dare to dream big dreams even when you’re scared to death.”
  130. “Remember that everyone else sees things differently than you do – some things aren’t worth fighting over.”
  131. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
  132. There are times in life when you feel like giving up… But remember that you only quit when you give up.”
  133. “Your biggest mistake is not realizing how valuable you already are.”
  134. “Never tell anyone how old you are. If you lie about your age, you are lying about your time.”
  135. The most difficult part of making a difference in someone’s life is knowing that you’ve made one.
  136. “Letting go is always easier than holding on.”
  137. “As long as you’re breathing, there’s still hope!”
  138. “Life is too short to waste time hating those who don’t deserve it.”
  139. “Happiness isn’t something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
  140. “Live today so tomorrow you may just be able to say ‘I’m glad I lived’.”
  141. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.’
  142. “You can’t control what happens to you, but you can decide how you react to it.”
  143. “Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some sort of battle.”
  144. “All that truly matters is how much you loved. Forget the rest.”
  145. “Love is the sun and fire which lights every living being.”
  146. “Don’t wait until everything is clear before acting. Make decisions based on what you think is right. Then, later, if events prove you wrong, you will know you acted honourably and intelligently.”
  147. “If you want to make the world a better place, begin with yourself.”
  148. “When you learn to fight without anger, you will be invincible.”
  149. When you live a good life, it becomes easy to forgive and forget.
  150. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
  151. “What we do speaks so loudly that we cannot hear what others think of us.”
  152. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.'”
  153. “In order to succeed, you must first believe that you can.”
  154. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
  155. “It is better to light a small candle than curse the darkness.”
  156. “You should never regret doing what gave you true happiness.”
  157. “Life is a great road, and you are the traveler.”
  158. Every morning we wake up, we face another challenge, yet with each morning we rise again to meet it.
  159. “I am grateful for the pain, because it has left me with stories to write.”
  160. “Everyone needs friends-people who care enough to listen when they need to talk.”
  161. “We all need time alone sometimes… especially if we are afraid of missing out on something important.”
  162. You can get through anything if you look at it as a learning experience.”
  163. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
  164. “The past was just an idea. The present is real, and the future will be what you make it.”
  165. “One day at a time – that is how life is supposed to be lived.”
  166. Doing what you love is freedom.
  167. “People will hate you for being successful; people will hate you for being happy.”
  168. “Knowledge is power.”
  169. “Money does not make you rich, nor poverty poor. A mind rich in knowledge is rich indeed.”
  170. “It is not what we gain or lose, but rather what we keep that defines our lives.”
  171. “Success is measured by your ability to overcome obstacles in your life.
  172. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
  173. “There’s no point in making plans if you’re going to die anyway.”
  174. “The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.”
  175. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
  176. “No one can hurt you unless you let them.”
  177. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
  178. “Learn to laugh at yourself. You’ll find that people have more respect for you.”
  179. “We spend our whole lives trying to figure out why people act the way they do. And the answer is: They don’t really understand themselves either.”
  180. “Never compromise quality for quantity.”
  181. “Live each moment as if it were your last.”
  182. To thine own self be true.”
  183. “Be careful about giving advice. You may be asked for it someday.”
  184. “Make your life interesting, not meaningful.”
  185. “Sometimes you have to work hard to look soft.”
  186. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
  187. “Love is like air; there is nothing finer, but too much of it makes people uncomfortable.”
  188. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.”
  189. “The biggest mistake you can make in life is to worry about tomorrow, when today is yours.”
  190. “If you’re worried about something, chances are it can wait.”
  191. “Let go of yesterday and live in the moment.”
  192. “Some dreams are worth waiting for, some are meant to be reality.”
  193. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
  194. “Remember, no one ever said happiness was easy. But looking back over my life, I can honestly say that those times most filled with joy were almost always the times when I had least expected them.”

Final Thoughts

I hope that these Friday gym motivation quotes have helped you to stay motivated during this fitness journey! These quotes can give you the drive you need to succeed on your fitness goals and workout plan.

Keep moving forward and remember to enjoy every step along the way.

Best of luck!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Felix Prasetyo is the founder and publisher at Lifengoal, covering relationships, social skills, and personal growth. Felix holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, and has also contributed to other media publications such as Addicted2Success.com and YogiApproved.

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