Your Favorite Motivational Quotes or Sayings

danielpinkney

On fitness, health or life in general. Anyone have any that they would care to share?

I love to find new ones that inspire, touch or motivate me. Here's a few that I really like and often come back to if I'm feeling a little down or quiet... Hope you like them!

‘Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.’ ~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

‘Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.’ ~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

‘The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t’ is you. And you don’t have to listen.’ ~ Nike

‘If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.’ ~ Wayne Dyer

‘It’s not where you start, but where you finish.’ ~ April Heinrichs

‘It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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 and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, 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 timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.’
~ Theodore Roosevelt

‘It’s never too late to become what you might have been.’ ~ George Elliot

‘Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.’ ~ Anonymous

‘Success must be felt within before it can be seen on the outside.’ ~ Unknown

‘If the mind can believe it, the body can achieve it.’ ~ Unknown

‘Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.’ ~ Og Mandino

‘If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.’

‘Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.’ ~ Steve Jobs

‘The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. The joy of life is to love’. ~ William Arthur Ward

‘You must be the change you wish to see in the world.’ ~ Mahatma Gandhi

‘We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.’ ~ Stephen Covey

‘There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.’ ~ Albert Einstein

‘We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are.’ ~ Talmud.

‘You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.’ ~ F Perl.

‘Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.’ ~ Harvey Fierstein.

‘People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved, and people are being used.’

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart... Stay hungry. Stay foolish." ~ Steve Jobs

”It’s impossible” said pride. “It’s risky” said experience. “It’s pointless” said reason. “Give it a try” whispered the heart. ~ Anonymous

‘God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.’ ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

danielpinkney

And a few more good ones I've just come across (did a quick search on the forums)...

'Our greatest battles are that with our own minds'

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with? -Lance Armstrong

'Don't put a wishbone where your backbone should be.'

'Do, or do not. There is no try' ~ Master Yoda, Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

'You may regret NOT working out, but you will never regret when you DO work out'

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

Tannedtiffers

Those are great! Thank you for sharing!

StaceyL76

"If you don't sacrifice for what you want - what you want will be the sacrifice.- Unknown "

danielpinkney

"If you don't sacrifice for what you want - what you want will be the sacrifice.- Unknown "

Nice! Added to my list

StaceyL76

Thanks for sharing these great quotes. It is helpful to have these to focus on at times. = )