What quote motivates you? Here is my motivator!

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  • Rayman79
    Rayman79 Posts: 2,009 Member
    'I am worth it;
    my kids are worth it;
    I AM strong!'
  • JBsCrazyGirl
    JBsCrazyGirl Posts: 337
    suck it up, and maybe one day you wont have to suck it in
  • aleciaj7
    aleciaj7 Posts: 39
    "being lost is so close to being found"

    and I also really love

    "It's not the critic who counts, not 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 the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -Teddy Roosevelt
  • ruby_red_rose
    ruby_red_rose Posts: 321 Member
    "This too shall pass."

    This quote has helped me through many tough times.
  • notnormallyacaloriecounter
    notnormallyacaloriecounter Posts: 71 Member
    "it's never too late to be what you might have been" George Elliott

    i hear it in my head everywhere i go, and everything i do. it's got me this far, and so far this far has been pretty good.
  • bcmallwalker
    bcmallwalker Posts: 63
    Two from Emerson:

    What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson


    Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • ruby_red_rose
    ruby_red_rose Posts: 321 Member
    "You can't eat like that and look like this".

    Anytime I feel tempted to eat poorly (how I used to eat 59 lbs ago), I tell myself this. It helps me make good choices about food everyday.
  • FocusPlease
    FocusPlease Posts: 59 Member
    "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand

    OOooooOOoo--I like this one!
  • bcmallwalker
    bcmallwalker Posts: 63
    "it's never too late to be what you might have been" George Elliott




    That's one of my favorites too. I love reading the novels of George Eliot, (Mary Anne Evans).
  • genuinely
    genuinely Posts: 10 Member
    Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to look for trouble. Zorba the Greek

    Don't explain, and don't complain. Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

    From Marianne Williamson, A Course in Weight Loss - 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

    Overeating may seem self-indulgent. Actually, it is a profound rejection of self. To commit to a diet, you must commit to yourself. Don't deny your self your own passion, your own path, your own longing, your own drama, your own life force, your own truth.

    And from one of the reflections at the end of a lesson - Free me from false appetites and take away my pain. Take from me my compulsive self, and show me who I am.
  • mali240
    mali240 Posts: 126
    When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.

    Isn't that jillian?? Looove her


    Another one by her I looove 'Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity'
  • carolemack
    carolemack Posts: 1,276 Member
    It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to take a giant leap forward only to stumble back.

    The above has got me through many weigh ins where I think my loss is so small.
  • Mommy2Avaj
    Mommy2Avaj Posts: 140 Member
    Nothing worth having comes easy! If u can see it, u can achieve it! Suck it up princess, pain lets u know you are still alive. If it doesn't hurt, you aren't pushing yourself hard enough!
  • Mommy2Avaj
    Mommy2Avaj Posts: 140 Member
    suck it up, and maybe one day you wont have to suck it in

    Omg! Love love this!!!!
  • madsmith123
    madsmith123 Posts: 17 Member
    "You are too smart to be the only thing standing in your way"

    I love this. Really sums it up for me - often I am the only thing standing in my way of success.
  • clairyfairy247
    clairyfairy247 Posts: 425 Member
    Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
  • jess393
    jess393 Posts: 220 Member
    "You save yourself, or you remain unsaved." It's not a quote, really; I read it in a book a billion years ago, and it's always in my head- If you want, you'll do it, plain and simple! :)
  • Jain
    Jain Posts: 861 Member
    Nothing taste better than the feeling of being thin.

    Wasn't it Kate Moss who said "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels?"

    It was Wallace Simpson who said it first.
  • benodie
    benodie Posts: 231 Member
    "little pickers wear big knickers!"
  • kcoftx
    kcoftx Posts: 765 Member
    "There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." --Unknown
  • kcoftx
    kcoftx Posts: 765 Member
    "Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it" Charles Swindoll. This has motivated me my whole life. Always keeps me positive and moving forward! Go "get some" today!

    I actually already have this on my profile!
  • LittleMissRainey
    LittleMissRainey Posts: 440 Member
    "You don't have to be great to start... but you have to start to be great."
    "If you wait for the perfect conditions, you'll never get anything done"

    For the times I feel too scared to go out jogging (err, still working on that!)

    And my personal one for myself: "Oi, stop eating so much you big fat chump!" :laugh:
  • sarahrichards81
    sarahrichards81 Posts: 79
    Pain is just weakness leaving the body

    My (army) finace told me that this is often yelled at them by the scary (read mental) instructors during Phys but it's kind of become my mantra whenever I start to hurt at the gym.
  • Myslissa
    Myslissa Posts: 760 Member
    "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming." - Dorie from 'Finding Nemo'

    So love Dorie!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I will be singing that all day. HEHE!
  • SoIcouldbefreee
    SoIcouldbefreee Posts: 8
    “Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with stick-like models. Eat healthy and exercise. That's all. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good." - Gerard Way.
    :)
  • lowash67
    lowash67 Posts: 33 Member
    No Pain, NO Sexy!!! ME!!!
  • davegruper
    davegruper Posts: 68 Member
    These are great motivational quotes. I like "If it is to be, its up to me"
  • Lainnee
    Lainnee Posts: 61 Member
    Good one...I can relate!
  • davegruper
    davegruper Posts: 68 Member
    "There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." --Unknown

    I heard a story once where a coach was asked to explain the difference between being interested and commitment. So he asked the team, "Did you have ham and eggs for breakfast today?" The team nodded and the coach said, "In order for you to have that breakfast, the chicken was interested but the pig was committed.":happy:
  • Agirard25
    Agirard25 Posts: 154 Member
    "I will not be afraid to be successful" some of my favorite words....my husband and I tell eachother constantly--no matter what we are doing-trying to lose weight, taking a risk, buying a house....we are going to do everything in our power to achieve it because I will not let fear keep me from my goals!

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