What is your motivational mantra?

jkestens63
jkestens63 Posts: 1,164 Member
in Motivation and Support
I truly believe positive thoughts contribute to reaching our goals. My favorites:

Finish what you started.

It's a marathon, not a sprint.

Nobody can do it for you.

Look at what you've accomplished so far, you can do more!

What is your mantra?
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  • dlecorchick
    dlecorchick Posts: 37 Member
    My all around motivational, comforting, and reassuring mantra is "If you want chaos, look around. If you want peace, look up."

    After I get with that everything else is somewhat manageable.
  • Deipneus
    Deipneus Posts: 1,861 Member
    What is your mantra?
    If not now, when?
  • craftywitch_63
    craftywitch_63 Posts: 829 Member
    I solve peoples' problems all day long. When I come home it's like working a second shift. The hour-an-a-half that I'm at the gym, I don't have my phone near me, I can't see all the housework I need to do, no one needs attending to.

    So my motivational mantra is:

    "This is MY time!"
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Stop being mediocre.

    Fabulous isn't easy- if it was- everyone would do it.

    WERK.
  • May_Rose
    May_Rose Posts: 119 Member
    There's no better time than now.
  • dapunks
    dapunks Posts: 245 Member
    For the last little while it has been:

    Eat real food and lift heavy things.
  • SuperstarDJ
    SuperstarDJ Posts: 441 Member
    "This time next year you'll wish you'd started today"
  • CJisinShape
    CJisinShape Posts: 1,404 Member
    My all around motivational, comforting, and reassuring mantra is "If you want chaos, look around. If you want peace, look up."

    After I get with that everything else is somewhat manageable.
  • CJisinShape
    CJisinShape Posts: 1,404 Member
    Don't worry about tomorrow, do what you need to do today.
  • Urban_Princess
    Urban_Princess Posts: 219 Member
    "Suck it up now so you don't have to suck it in later."

    Also the quote in my ticker is what goes through my mind everyday.
  • jjking54
    jjking54 Posts: 113 Member
    "Rise Above This"
    "I Will Not Bow"

    EDIT to add one more - HTFU - "Harden the *kitten* up"
  • jkestens63
    jkestens63 Posts: 1,164 Member
    These are great!!!
  • marye2021
    marye2021 Posts: 225 Member
    "Stay strong, you are worth it."

    "Take one day at a time, if that's too difficult then take it one moment until you've got it."
  • fast_eddie_72
    fast_eddie_72 Posts: 719 Member
    "Don't ***** out on me now, Marvin."

    From Reservoir Dogs.
  • CanGirl40
    CanGirl40 Posts: 379 Member
    "Fail to plan, plan to fail..."
  • Marcolter
    Marcolter Posts: 103 Member
    "Magic loves the hungry"...... From Beautiful Losers Leonard Cohen Poem: God is Alive Magic is Afoot
  • Mhgretsch
    Mhgretsch Posts: 259 Member
    Too blessed to be stressed....it's my reminder to focus on what's positive in my life, not stress out about things I have no control over.
  • mtnstar
    mtnstar Posts: 125 Member
    This is a bit of a longer one, but a very wise lady once told me:

    "Don't waste your 30's wishing you were still in your 20's. When you're forty, thirty will seem very young to you. Then you will wish you hadn't spent those years looking for something that could never be. Be the very best that you can be NOW. Every age has its light."

    I think you can insert any age group into that statement, and it makes sense.
  • broox80
    broox80 Posts: 1,195 Member
    Do it for the, "Oh *kitten* she got hot!!!"
  • broox80
    broox80 Posts: 1,195 Member
    "Rise Above This"
    "I Will Not Bow"

    EDIT to add one more - HTFU - "Harden the *kitten* up"

    I detect some rock in your motivation! !! :) \m/
  • Momto4minions
    Momto4minions Posts: 173 Member
    Several:
    It is okay to be selfish
    It is my turn
    Protein over pastry!

    I also ask myself if me in one year will remember the treat I didn't eat or appreciate my will power!
  • R_Calvillo
    R_Calvillo Posts: 177 Member
    I always liked these to get me by.

    "The Paradoxical Commandments"

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.
  • jjking54
    jjking54 Posts: 113 Member
    "Rise Above This"
    "I Will Not Bow"

    EDIT to add one more - HTFU - "Harden the *kitten* up"

    I detect some rock in your motivation! !! :) \m/

    Just a little :wink:
  • mkemmis73
    mkemmis73 Posts: 29 Member
    Do it for the, "Oh *kitten* she got hot!!!"

    Love it!!!

    I have a couple:
    "The pain of being overweight is far worse than the pain of working out"
    "I am ready to love my body. I have loved food more than myself for far to long"
  • Jezebel9
    Jezebel9 Posts: 396 Member
    I hate to say it, but when I am pushing it very hard, I just get mad. At the enemy. There is an evil force that wants to hold me back from saving myself and the entire universe. And when I think about quitting, I know the evil force (of death, disease, donuts, sofas and too much facebook frumpy sausage and mediocrity) has sneaked in through some crack in the woodwork, and I get mad. Then Rage Against the Machine is my background music and I'm all like, "*kitten* YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!"
    So
    I guess that's my mantra at those times.
    Fk you, I won't do what you tell me.
  • Krustpie
    Krustpie Posts: 25
    I love these
    She thought she could...and so she did
    No excuses
  • PatheticNoetic
    PatheticNoetic Posts: 905 Member
    The difference between possible and impossible is often in the woman's determination.
  • PRMinx
    PRMinx Posts: 4,585 Member
    Strong is the new sexy.
  • dnunny70
    dnunny70 Posts: 411 Member
    My mom didn't crumble....she got STRONG!

    What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

    On the day you left was just my beginning

    I've got the eye of the tiger...I am a champion
  • Fatguy2Fitguy
    Fatguy2Fitguy Posts: 129 Member
    Nothing will work unless you do!

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