Quotes that inspire you?

msarro
msarro Posts: 2,748 Member
edited September 18 in Motivation and Support
Post your favorites! Someone else has already said it better, so you may was well use their words and leave a strong point :)


"Somewhere in the world, someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." -Adidas
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  • msarro
    msarro Posts: 2,748 Member
    Post your favorites! Someone else has already said it better, so you may was well use their words and leave a strong point :)


    "Somewhere in the world, someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." -Adidas
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    lol, see my signature.

    but this one is good too:

    "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!"
    -Ben Franklin
  • tashjs21
    tashjs21 Posts: 4,584 Member
    "It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you aren't"
    I am sure I worded that wrong but the message is a great one!
  • huskergal15
    huskergal15 Posts: 102
    "All that we are is a result of what we have thought" - Buddha

    Think happy thoughts and have a positive outlook, and you'll be a happier person. Negativity attracts negativity (I've been brainwashed by The Secret.. I know it)

    Oh, and "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car". Soooo true. :happy:
  • Fab140
    Fab140 Posts: 1,976 Member
    PrincessLaundry said in a post that she no longer needs to "taste" her favorite foods all the time because she knows what they taste like. It really inspired me to refocus my way of thinking.

    Thanks Lady!!
    :flowerforyou:
  • amylynne26
    amylynne26 Posts: 195 Member
    Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

    Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

    It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up you had better be running.

    :wink:
  • pmd14
    pmd14 Posts: 232 Member
    "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!"
    -Ben Franklin
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    I like that one!!!!!

    Trying to live by "It is what it is"
  • jilldan55
    jilldan55 Posts: 61 Member
    I have a magnet my mother made me for that on my fridge... so true!:happy:
  • jilldan55
    jilldan55 Posts: 61 Member
    They may forget what you said or did- but they'll never forget how you made them feel!

    I love quotes and put a new one on my chalkboard in the kitchen every week... everyone who comes over checks it out.

    This week was a funny one:
    "you can get much further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone" al Capone
  • pmd14
    pmd14 Posts: 232 Member
    It's so true. Sometimes you use up too much energy on things you can't change.
    Happy people don't have more they are just happy with what they have
  • cwilson715
    cwilson715 Posts: 130
    I am on a 30 day diet; I have already lost 14 days!

    I have no clue who came up with it but I love it!:laugh:

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    Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Free Calorie Counter

    1st Goal: 165 By My Daughter's 1st Birthday
    2nd Goal: 140 By My Husband's Birthday
    Ultimate Goal: To Be a size 6
  • jilldan55
    jilldan55 Posts: 61 Member
    If you think something is impossible, it probably is!
    (the power of positive thinking...)
  • spaul82478
    spaul82478 Posts: 709 Member
    " A Kiss Makes the Heart Young Again and Wipes Out the Years" Rupert Brooke
    "If you Judge People, you have no time to love them" Mother Teresa
  • huskergal15
    huskergal15 Posts: 102
    If you think something is impossible, it probably is!
    (the power of positive thinking...)

    I love that one! I always heard a similiar one.. "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, You're right".
  • wanderinglight
    wanderinglight Posts: 1,519 Member
    The one that I absolutely live my life by is:

    Do something every day that scares you.

    No idea who said it. A few other favorites are:
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus

    "During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened." -- Winston Churchill

    The two that I always tell my girlfriends are:
    “There are many more people trying to meet the right person than to become the right person.”
    —Gloria Steinhem

    "Time will heal all wounds. Just like it will heal his broken arms and legs."
    ---Miss Piggy
  • wanderinglight
    wanderinglight Posts: 1,519 Member
    And three more that are a bit more uplifiting:

    "If you love your life, it will love you back."

    (don't know who said it)

    and

    "Circumstances? Hell, I make circumstances."
    -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • lotusfromthemud
    lotusfromthemud Posts: 5,335 Member
    "Whether you think you can or think you can't. . .you're right" --Henry Ford

    "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"--Eleanor Roosevelt

    "No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work"--Mother Teresa

    and, my mantra from the bible:

    "Be still, and know that I am God." (I fight a lifelong battle with restless lack of patience.)

    oh, and one more, but it's in my signature.:wink:
  • spaul82478
    spaul82478 Posts: 709 Member
    My favorite still is.. Don't cry becasue its over..smile because it happened.. DR SUESS
  • moidyn
    moidyn Posts: 112
    And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
  • Steffykins
    Steffykins Posts: 176
    My best friend and I have a favourite quote that doesn't even really make sense make it makes me happy (it reminds me of her!) "Even monkeys fall from trees." :laugh:

    My favourite weight loss quote is "Nothing tastes as good as being thin." It reminds me that that one Mc Donalds I want will not be worth looking flabby in my bikini!
  • icheeemama
    icheeemama Posts: 7
    “Life is not measured by the # of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.."
    - ANONYMOUS

    :flowerforyou:
  • peej76
    peej76 Posts: 1,250 Member
    You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. - Johnny Cash
  • yoginimary
    yoginimary Posts: 6,788 Member
    The one that I absolutely live my life by is:

    Do something every day that scares you.


    That was Eleanor Roosevelt, I believe.

    Mine is: "If you cannot say something nice about anybody, come sit next to me" Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt

    I love the "arguing with an idiot" one above though (in yellow).
  • doglvr_75
    doglvr_75 Posts: 144
    :heart: "The best & most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart"--Helen Keller :heart:
  • areason4stars
    areason4stars Posts: 86
    "When nothing is certain, everything is possible"

    "Shoot for the moon even if you miss you will land among the stars"



    " Life isn’t about surviving the storm, but learning to dance in the rain"



    and the one in my siggy , for sure!
  • overthehillsandfaraway
    overthehillsandfaraway Posts: 179
    "To error is human. To forgive, divine."


    "We've decided that asking questions does us no good because life is the question and YOU are the answer."
  • beep
    beep Posts: 1,242 Member
    The one that I absolutely live my life by is:


    "Time will heal all wounds. Just like it will heal his broken arms and legs."
    ---Miss Piggy

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Sorry, I left out a little bit.....
  • beep
    beep Posts: 1,242 Member
    "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

    --The Problem of Pain

    C.S. Lewis
  • wanderinglight
    wanderinglight Posts: 1,519 Member
    The one that I absolutely live my life by is:


    "Time will heal all wounds. Just like it will heal his broken arms and legs."
    ---Miss Piggy

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Sorry, I left out a little bit.....
    :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
  • PrincessLaundry
    PrincessLaundry Posts: 2,758 Member
    PrincessLaundry said in a post that she no longer needs to "taste" her favorite foods all the time because she knows what they taste like. It really inspired me to refocus my way of thinking.

    Thanks Lady!!
    :flowerforyou:

    Awwww shucks!!! You're welcome girlie!


    I put it in my file for safe thinking...LOL

    Controlling Naughty Foods

    A friend and I were talking about weight loss a while back. We both came to the strangest agreement about our favorite "bad foods"...

    My favorite foods will always be there...
    I already know what they taste like, so I don't have to go back and "try it" at every opportunity...
    I can get that food when I have "earned" it, not when I just want it.
    My goal is health and love for myself, not this food.

    I think at the time french fries were my favorite. That would be my lunch, with a water. YUCK! What was I thinking? :laugh:

    Now I remind myself that I can know it's good tasting, but I can get it next time, when I know it fits into my plan, and I want to be happy. YUM! It just helps me look at my favorite items and keeping ME in control, not my addiction.
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