What motivational quote kept you going ?

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  • gabbygirl78
    gabbygirl78 Posts: 936 Member
    It's YOUR *kitten*, ain't no body else gonna get off YOUR *kitten* and lose the weight, but someone else will have to raise YOUR kids when the weight kills you. Can sleep at night knowing that?"
  • aimroe
    aimroe Posts: 13 Member
    Take it day by day. Results don't come overnight. Change doesn't happen immediately. Keep working towards your goals.
  • JanetCeleste
    JanetCeleste Posts: 6
    Here's one I heard recently. "The definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over & over while expecting different results!" So I guess I better change my actions if I want different results!
  • Cathi888
    Cathi888 Posts: 37 Member
    saving for future inspiration
  • TravelerX
    TravelerX Posts: 7 Member
    Try not! Do or do not. There is no try.
    ~Yoda

    This^
  • lizyoface
    lizyoface Posts: 9 Member
    I LOVE this - "It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are 'heal' "
  • KHalseth
    KHalseth Posts: 104 Member
    A blogger I read (who happens to be diabetic) once told me that "Being Fit, Healthy and Hungry was better than being Fat, Diabetic, and Dead." I keep thinking I might turn it into an needlework sampler.
  • MissKalhan
    MissKalhan Posts: 2,282 Member
    Mine is my mantra during meditation. "I am powerful, strong and whole."
  • CC_Maam
    CC_Maam Posts: 45 Member
    Thumbs up! I'm not into denial either!
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    After age 50, women have less _____ (pretty much every thing good goes in that blank - bone density, muscle mass, strength, balance, yadda, yadda, yadda).
  • brunetteavoxgirl
    brunetteavoxgirl Posts: 88 Member
    Try not! Do or do not. There is no try.
    ~Yoda
    this
  • themommie
    themommie Posts: 5,033 Member
    If I moved my body as often as I obsessed about my body, id have the body I obssess about by now......

    also......this too shall pass.,,,,,,(this helps when I am struggling)
  • Darylbauer
    Darylbauer Posts: 1 Member
    Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but the valley's are where the fruit is grown!
    -Billy Graham
  • tmodaniel0720
    tmodaniel0720 Posts: 11 Member
    Rocky Balboa: Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!
  • arlenejoneswilson
    arlenejoneswilson Posts: 49 Member
    As long as I am moving, I am lapping everyone on the couch.
  • arlenejoneswilson
    arlenejoneswilson Posts: 49 Member
    Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but the valley's are where the fruit is grown!
    -Billy Graham

    Preach, brother, Preach!
  • 60aday
    60aday Posts: 20
    Sweat is the fat crying!!! :)
  • SarahAnna87
    SarahAnna87 Posts: 65 Member
    "Be Stronger than your excuses"
  • arlenejoneswilson
    arlenejoneswilson Posts: 49 Member
    I LOVE this - "It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are 'heal' "
    nice!
  • Mercambus
    Mercambus Posts: 11
    It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
  • arlenejoneswilson
    arlenejoneswilson Posts: 49 Member
    Try not! Do or do not. There is no try.
    ~Yoda
    this

    ...and may the Force be with you!
  • TheTwinnn
    TheTwinnn Posts: 1
    I have two:

    "suck it up now or suck it in later"

    "it never gets easier, you just get BETTER"
  • AJinBirmingham
    AJinBirmingham Posts: 497
    Where will you be a year from now if you quit? If you don't?
  • bigbyrdie
    bigbyrdie Posts: 18 Member
    Never surrender. Never quit.
  • Missabled
    Missabled Posts: 24
    September 2012 My then 2 1/2 yr old grand-daughter: "But Grammy, why, why can't you get on the floor to play with me"?

    ^^^^ I was 304LBS.

    That same week I read a quote...." SHE BELIEVED SHE COULD, SO SHE DID"

    Today, Feb 7th, 2014......176 pounds.

    My now, 4 yr old grand-daughter.....

    "I need to hydrate", << as she picks up her water bottle.
    "Daddy that is not good for you", < As Dad reaches for junk food
    "Annie-accidents" << saying "anti-oxidants" when she reaches for her berries
    "Grammy you are fun"<< As I run through the house playing TAG with her!
    "Grammy you are beautiful" << When she asked for a Ponytail in her hair just like mine.
    "I need my POSSUM". <<<saying POTASSIUM, when she asks for a banana
    "Grammy can we go for a walk"?......YES BABY, WE CAN!!!

    <<<<Ms. Kaelyn Rayne (my profile pic), and this is HOW, and WHY I keep going.....
  • Short_scrivy
    Short_scrivy Posts: 8 Member
    "Don't get even, get even better"
  • Cyndesire
    Cyndesire Posts: 56 Member
    The snack you have been craving for an hour or the body you have wanted for years?
  • sarrah_n
    sarrah_n Posts: 192 Member
    SEE MY TICKER BELOW
  • CC_Maam
    CC_Maam Posts: 45 Member
    Down the list someone said that 'motivation doesn't last habit does' (or something like that).

    When would I get to exercising and so that I was "Doing without thinking" (that to means that it would feel natural part of my day)

    There is some psychological research on this question in a paper recently published in the European Journal of Social Psychology. Phillippa Lally and colleagues from University College London recruited 96 people who were interested in forming a new habit such as eating a piece of fruit with lunch or doing a 15 minute run each day Lally et al. (2009). Participants were then asked daily how automatic their chosen behaviours felt. These questions included things like whether the behaviour was ‘hard not to do’ and could be done ‘without thinking’.

    When the researchers examined the different habits, many of the participants showed a curved relationship between practice and automaticity of the form depicted below (solid line). On average a plateau in automaticity was reached after 66 days.

    I didn't know that when I started my love affair with my Wii (see my blog for more about that). I committed to doing it EVERY DAY for thirty days without fail. I felt if I had done that I would be on my way to establishing a NEW, GOOD HABIT. It got me off the couch and committed to a better me. For me by the time the 30 days was done I had set my path and that was 370 days ago. By the way I am still having that affair . . . Thank you Wii Fitness Plus! I love you! (and now the YMCA too!)

    All that is great .. but till you develop that habit and it feels good and natural you may still need motivation . . .

    I like to remind myself, "I'm worth it!" and here are a few others:

    Milton Garland: My advice is to go into something and stay with it until you like it. You can't like it until you obtain expertise in that work. And once you are an expert, it's a pleasure.

    Ellen Degeneres: You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

    David Viscott: You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

    Lee Iacocca: You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

    and here's a real reality check for you . . .

    Jim Rohn: Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
    Once you believe that one you shouldn't need any more motivation ... I mean you will be there for the rest of your life ... how do you want to live it?

    . . . and then the habit of taking care of you becomes not just a habit but also your priority!

    CC
  • Jen92Coach
    Jen92Coach Posts: 1
    "Finish strong and hard"

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