Favorite Motivational sayings!

jenn10
jenn10 Posts: 161
edited September 2024 in Motivation and Support
Please post your favorite words of wisdom and motivation here for others to think on! I am not really a religous person but my favorite motivational words came from joel osteen ---

GREATER IS HE WHO IS WITHIN ME THAN HE WHO IS WITHIN THE FRIDGE!

is that great or what! So please send along some more great quotes for motivation!

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  • jenn10
    jenn10 Posts: 161
    Please post your favorite words of wisdom and motivation here for others to think on! I am not really a religous person but my favorite motivational words came from joel osteen ---

    GREATER IS HE WHO IS WITHIN ME THAN HE WHO IS WITHIN THE FRIDGE!

    is that great or what! So please send along some more great quotes for motivation!
  • jackeh
    jackeh Posts: 1,515 Member
    "you wouldn't care what people thought of you, if you kknew how seldom they really did.... "
  • Ezzie
    Ezzie Posts: 665 Member
    Discipline is remembering what you really want....
    D. Campbell

    Don't have a clue who he/she is but this quote has helped me to actually believe I could have some self discipline!
  • xoalyssaox
    xoalyssaox Posts: 318 Member
    I used to be in Weight watchers and they would say

    No food makes you feel as good as skinny feels..
  • yoginimary
    yoginimary Posts: 6,789 Member
    Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can.

    Ok, maybe not motivational.
  • xoalyssaox
    xoalyssaox Posts: 318 Member
    Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can.

    Ok, maybe not motivational.
    haha
  • BrandNewLaura
    BrandNewLaura Posts: 1,650 Member
    Mine is the one in my signature..."I am the sum of my small steps."
  • Please post your favorite words of wisdom and motivation here for others to think on! I am not really a religous person but my favorite motivational words came from joel osteen ---

    GREATER IS HE WHO IS WITHIN ME THAN HE WHO IS WITHIN THE FRIDGE!

    is that great or what! So please send along some more great quotes for motivation!

    I just remember this from church and it seems to work

    All things can be done though Christ
    I think it is in Romans
  • Your stomach shouldn’t be a waist basket

    The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life

    The right angle to approach a difficult challenge is the try-angle

    A goal is like a postage stamp -- you gotta stick to it until you arrive

    If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

    Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier
  • "Sometimes you have to choose to be happy."
  • kimber607
    kimber607 Posts: 7,128 Member
    Hi

    Don't be a slave to circumstance...YOU decide...
  • kistinbee
    kistinbee Posts: 3,688 Member
    Okay...I am listing a LOT, but if you need motivation...here it is!!!!
    WE CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!

    "Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health."
    - James Thomson

    The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.
    - J. O. De La Mettrie

    Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
    - Cher

    Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
    - Earl of Derby

    True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.
    - Alexander von Humboldt

    A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
    - Joan Welsh

    You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
    - J. Askenberg

    You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
    - Chris Evert

    "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
    - Beverly Sills

    "If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win."
    - Carl Lewis

    "You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone."
    - Percy Cerutty

    "Train, don't strain."
    - Arthur Lydiard

    "If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
    - Herschel Walker

    "Just remember this: No one ever won the olive wreath with an impressive training diary."
    - Marty Liquori

    Fall seven times, stand up eight.
    - Japanese proverb

    Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.
    - T.S. Eliot

    Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
    - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
    - Andre Gide

    Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.
    - Anthony Storr

    Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
    - Henry J. Kaiser

    Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
    - Frank L. Gaines

    Nothing will work unless you do.
    - John Wooden

    The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
    - Tommy Lasorda
  • BrandNewLaura
    BrandNewLaura Posts: 1,650 Member
    Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

    Ooooh I like this one!
  • jenn10
    jenn10 Posts: 161
    WOW that is alot but all very true and helpfull!!! thanks so much -- my house might start looking like a post-it party gone wrong!LOL
  • heartshapdworld
    heartshapdworld Posts: 323 Member
    I can't take credit for this one...but I love it

    It is easier to keep weight off, than to take weight off
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