Top 120 Richard Simmons Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My life is just a never-ending work in progress.”

— Richard Simmons

2. “Work hard, take care of yourself, and you’ll be just fine.”

— Richard Simmons

3. “Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.”

— Richard Simmons

4. “When the king gets depressed, he doesn’t call for his wife. He doesn’t call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.”

— Richard Simmons

5. “I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.”

— Richard Simmons

6. “When you’re feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don’t want to take care of yourself – and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.”

— Richard Simmons

7. “For my workout, I’m up at 4am. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done. One day I’ll tone – chest, back and shoulders – and the next day it’s biceps and triceps. I also do 45 minutes of cardio every day. I do that before I even leave the house.”

— Richard Simmons

8. “People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.”

— Richard Simmons

9. “If you want to get the body you’ve always dreamed of, you have to earn it. You can’t buy it, you can’t rent it. You have to earn it. My formula has always been love yourself, move your body, watch your portions. And it sounds so easy, but it is not.”

— Richard Simmons

10. “Singing is good for the soul. It’s the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.”

— Richard Simmons

11. “If I don’t take care of myself, if I don’t feel good about myself, how can I help others?”

— Richard Simmons

12. “I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won’t get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.”

— Richard Simmons

13. “When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you’ve got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that’s why I’m extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can’t be overweight.”

— Richard Simmons

14. “No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.”

— Richard Simmons

15. “If you don’t love your mother you go straight to hell.”

— Richard Simmons

16. “I’ve always practiced this: Love yourself. Move your body. Watch your portions.”

— Richard Simmons

17. “When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I’m excited and grateful.”

— Richard Simmons

18. “If your oxygen mask drops down, it’s time to take a breather!”

— Richard Simmons

19. “Sometimes it’s just ‘Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.’ I’m not going to lie to you – I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.”

— Richard Simmons

20. “My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.”

— Richard Simmons

21. “I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: ‘Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.’ Let’s face it. We don’t know anything.”

— Richard Simmons

22. “When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.”

— Richard Simmons

23. “Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.”

— Richard Simmons

24. “But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!”

— Richard Simmons

25. “I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don’t believe in themselves.”

— Richard Simmons

26. “Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.”

— Richard Simmons

27. “Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It’s very sad.”

— Richard Simmons

28. “I don’t talk about my personal life, and I don’t talk about death.”

— Richard Simmons

29. “How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told – as a children been told that they’re no good, that they’re never going to be anything else.”

— Richard Simmons

30. “I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won’t get you anywhere.”

— Richard Simmons

31. “Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.”

— Richard Simmons

32. “I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.”

— Richard Simmons

33. “You shouldn’t make fun of people who have issues.”

— Richard Simmons

34. “After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.”

— Richard Simmons

35. “Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you’re happy and believe in yourself.”

— Richard Simmons

36. “Everyone’s under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.”

— Richard Simmons

37. “I don’t have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.”

— Richard Simmons

38. “That’s what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn’t work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can’t build a new you.”

— Richard Simmons

39. “I’m the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you’re done with me, I go back in my box.”

— Richard Simmons

40. “Being successful is something that’s sometimes hard to deal with.”

— Richard Simmons

41. “There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.”

— Richard Simmons

42. “Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.”

— Richard Simmons

43. “I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, “How can I help this person?””

— Richard Simmons

44. “I consider myself a court jester – motivator.”

— Richard Simmons

45. “People treat me like family, ’cause I’ve always treated them like family.”

— Richard Simmons

46. “Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.”

— Richard Simmons

47. “For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you’ve been through.”

— Richard Simmons

48. “No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!”

— Richard Simmons

49. “If you want to get the body you’ve always dreamed of, you have to earn it.”

— Richard Simmons

50. “I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.”

— Richard Simmons