Here’s 60 quotes to motivate you for your next workout! How do you kick off your week? Do motivational quotes help keep you moving towards your goals? Tell us in the comments!
- “If you wait, all that happens is you get older.” Larry McMurtry
- “Don’t worry, and don’t kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.” Bob Diamond in “Defending Your Life,” written by Albert Brooks
- “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” Wayne Gretzky
- “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” Christian D. Larson
- “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke
- “We cannot change life! We can only change the way we live life. Any moment is the best moment, and any place is the best place.” Tishan
- “Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.” Jonathan Safran Foer
- “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
- “You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.” Joan Baez
- “In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus
- “All I ask is that you do your best, and forget the rest.” Tony Horton
- “A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They’re just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can.” Maude in “Harold and Maude,” written by Colin Higgins
- “I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.” Gordon Lish
- “Don’t be like me. Be better than me. That’s the goal.” Michael Jordan
- “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard
- “It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.” Bell Hooks
- “The one that works the hardest comes out on top.” Debbie Meyer
- “Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Eliot
- “You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.” Dale Earnhardt
- “You can always become better.” Tiger Woods
- “Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.” Manny Pacquiao
- “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” Tommy Lasorda
- “BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.” Dwayne Johnson
- “If you don’t want to be the best, then there’s no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.” Joe Montana
- “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” Joe Namath
- “Don’t run away from a challenge. Instead run toward it cause the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.” Nadia Comaneci
- “To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams… This is success!” Sasha Azevedo
- ”One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.” Knute Rockne
- ”Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” Dean Karnazes
- ”It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi
- “What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.” Dean Smith
- ”Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve.” Stella Juarez
- ”Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body.” Lynn Jennings
- ”How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?” Jason Bishop
- ”Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” Marilyn vos Savant
- “You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.” Homer Rice
- ”I know what I have to do, and I’m going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I’ll come out a winner, and it doesn’t matter what anyone else does.” Florence Griffith Joyner
- “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line.” Ross Perot
- “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” Derek Jeter
- ”If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.” Michael Owen
- ”You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” Jerry West
- ”If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.” Herschel Walker
- ”If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” Fred Devito
- ”It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” ”Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.” Babe Ruth
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