Favorite Inspirational Quotes!
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"Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels!"
(Because the original quote was "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" and I feel its better to be healthy than just skinny... But hey, I'll take skinny too if I'm being healthy about it!)
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It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile, winning's winning0
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You could be sore tomorrow, or you could be sorry tomorrow. You choose.
You are too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.
Wow, I really regret that workout. Said no one, ever.
You can ALWAYS do more than you think you can.0 -
"No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everyone on the couch!"0
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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"
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"For better or worse, you are the only you that you will ever get. What you decide to do with you is up to you. Tomorrow you will still be you. The question is whether you will move closer today to who you want to be." - John Bingham "
"You can either feel Sore tomorrow, or Sorry tomorrow, your choice!"
(Sore from exercising or Sorry you didn't bother!)
This is my current fave but have now got a few more from this thread - loving "Fat lasts longer than flavour"!0 -
One of my favorite quotes to stick by... True in so many ways!! “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” ~Christian D. Larson0
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May have been said, because I didn't read every prior post, but here's mine
Pain is weakness leaving the body.0 -
I promise never to settle... Never to to quit... And Never be satisfied. I promise to always push... Always test... And above all else...Always find a way to challenge myself. For if I don't, I will have wasted the greatest gift of all... LIFE.0
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You can't get the but you want sitting on the one you have.
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
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You are kind, you are smart, you are important -the help0
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"One who runs behind car will get exhausted."
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"Just keep swimming!" - Dorie the Blue Fish0
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Don't know who said it but I saw it at the doctor's office the other day and loved it.
Her life began the day she realized there was just enough time in the days for the important stuff.0 -
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Before I post my list of quotes so far, I want to rant for a sec...
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There are a ton of great quotes in this thread, but please please PLEASE, give credit to the person you are quoting. You can often find where a quote comes from--or at least where it is widely believed to come from--with a quick Google search. I am a firm believer that you do everyone a disservice if you don't give credit where credit is due.
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Ok, so on with the quotes: *deep breath*First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
Charles C. Noble
You can’t cure obesity with bigger pants. My solution is the opposite: put those damned tight pants on and keep wearing them. When they bite at you, it's a reminder to take the stairs instead of the elevator, eat a piece of grilled salmon instead of a chocolate bar and bologna sandwich, and to start walking and biking more. Those tight pants are your biggest ally in addressing the underlying problem – if you give them up, you'll be allowed to forget what the real problem is: your lifestyle has become unhealthy and you're doing everything with a dull saw!
Mr. Money Mustache
You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.
Andrew Zuckerman
The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals-not for the person we're going to be when we reach them-we set our goals for the person we are when we set them.
Jim Coudal
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence.
Buddha
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".
Mary Anne Radmacher
Persist.
Austin Madison
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
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.
Lance Armstrong
Complaining Is Stupid. Either Act or Forget.
Stefan Sagmeister
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
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
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert J Collier
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Denis Waitley
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
David Viscott
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Dr. Denis Waitley
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It’s the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
Muhammad Ali
You're never beaten until you admit it.
George S. Patton
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
Decisions determine destiny.
Thomas S. Monson
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.
Carl Lewis
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler
The past is behind--we must learn from it. The future is ahead--we must prepare for it. The present is now—we must live in it.
Thomas S. Monson
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
World Health Organization 1948
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Paul Dudley White
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J.K. Rowling
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
Winston Churchill
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
Wallis Simpson
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas Carlyle
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Vinoba Bhave
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
It's always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
Weakness of Attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
Robert Urich
Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end.
Winston Churchill
Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
These are all the quotes I have posted to MFP so far this year. I try to post one every day (at least M-F, I often forget on the weekends.) Anyone who likes can add me as a friend if you want to see my quotes as I post them.0 -
"Discipline is doing what you know needs to be done even when you don't feel like doing it."
This one's been my motivation for working out on SEVERAL occasions when I felt like making excuses as to why I couldn't/wouldn't exercise. Not sure who actually authored this quote, but he (or she) was right and, dang it, I want to be disciplined! lol.0 -
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” George Orwell.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin0 -
Life is a garden, dig it.
Gotta keep on keeping on.
lordbezoar, I came up these ones myself.0 -
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"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."
-Plato0 -
If it is important, you will find a way. If is not, then you will find an excuse.0
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It doesn`t matter if the cat is black or white...As long as it catches the mouse...0
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barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon
^tattooed on my right ribcage
She went out on a limb, had it break off behind her, and realized she could fly
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When in doubt, just take the next small step.0
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"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."0
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“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
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'I am not afraid... I was born to do this.'
- Joan of Arc0
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