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Looking for Motivational Phrases

Amy154
Amy154 Posts: 52
edited September 2024 in Motivation and Support
What are the things you tell yourself??
Need to still some positive phrases!!

Amy

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  • aippolito1
    aippolito1 Posts: 4,894 Member
    No pain, no gain.

    Pain is weakness leaving the body.

    And the one in my signature: "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills
  • Clew
    Clew Posts: 910 Member
    My favorite is in my signature (the Coolidge one) ~ Looking forward to what others say here too! :happy:
  • heidiberr
    heidiberr Posts: 643 Member
    Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!
  • treasurep
    treasurep Posts: 88 Member
    Mine is also my signature line.
  • VeryKerri
    VeryKerri Posts: 359 Member
    "Just keep moving" a variation from Finding Nemo's "just keep swimming"
  • Gerkenstein
    Gerkenstein Posts: 315 Member
    "There's always another meal to look forward too."

    My doctor told me this and I guess that was when everything clicked into place.

    I also have to agree with kerri, I love singing "Just keep swimming" to myself when I'm on the elliptical. :)~
  • delilahthegoddess
    delilahthegoddess Posts: 59
    I use mine for running. "let the mind run the body"
    And for the rest of my life...." being normal is not necessarily a virtue, but rather a lack of courage! "
  • shellshalla
    shellshalla Posts: 263 Member
    The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

    Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

    If you don't focus on your *kitten*, no one else will. :)

    ....and the quote in my signature :)
  • Jamiebee24
    Jamiebee24 Posts: 296 Member
    Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!



    love it!! so many wonderful quotes on here! :)
  • NewImprovedCnbethea1
    NewImprovedCnbethea1 Posts: 1,108
    I love inspirational quotes here are a few of my favs:

    Nothing taste as good, as being fit or skinny feels!!

    Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.
    -- Sophia Loren

    Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
    -- Mary Kay Ash

    Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
    -- Julie Andrews

    Plus the one in my signature!!
  • ❤B☩❤
    ❤B☩❤ Posts: 634
    "Lack of willpower has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability" Flower A. Newhouse

    Through awareness and practice we can change the way we speak to ourselves. It’s time to change the tone of “that little voice” you hear in your head. - Chalene Johnson
  • PixieGoddess
    PixieGoddess Posts: 1,833 Member
    I use mine for running. "let the mind run the body"
    And for the rest of my life...." being normal is not necessarily a virtue, but rather a lack of courage! "

    "See this couple? He's dating the babysitter, and she can eat a pound cake in under a minute!"
    HAHA! Great movie!!

    Also in my signature, "Reach for progress, not perfection." I try to keep that in mind when I start obsessing.
  • Wishful
    Wishful Posts: 618 Member
    I love the Emerson quote!

    How about the old one? "I think I can...I think I can."
  • shellgib
    shellgib Posts: 196 Member
    i love all of these....plus the one in my siggy....
  • Ellem86
    Ellem86 Posts: 204
    My quote is "Impossible is Nothing". I say it over and over again when I feel like giving up. When I *really* need some help I say the full quote to myself: "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."

    If I'm completely and utterly in despair, I listen to Al Pacino's "Inch By Inch" locker room speech in Any Given Sunday (google/youtube it). I owe my law school final results to that speech!
  • atynk
    atynk Posts: 400 Member
    When I am running or racing I keep telling myself

    " I can do anything for 30 seconds" then when I get done 30 seconds I say it again lol!
  • Wishful
    Wishful Posts: 618 Member
    "bump!"
  • carilyn39
    carilyn39 Posts: 91 Member
    "don't wish for it, WORK for it".
  • Gerkenstein
    Gerkenstein Posts: 315 Member
    When I am running or racing I keep telling myself

    " I can do anything for 30 seconds" then when I get done 30 seconds I say it again lol!

    I SAY THAT TOO! LOL! Sometimes I say it for 10 minutes or 5 minutes, but then I think "I definitely could to waterboard for 10 minutes" LOL
  • PJilly
    PJilly Posts: 22,426 Member
    I got this one from one of my MFP friends:

    "Don't ever let the fact that you can't be perfect stop you from being your best."
  • MColette
    MColette Posts: 62
    This is one my parents always tell me, let's see if the translation sounds good :P

    "If the things that are worthy in this life were easy, anybody could do them"
  • mrsfloisand
    mrsfloisand Posts: 254 Member
    This is one from the Biggest Loser and it's helped me accomplish what I have so far:

    "Stand up and finish what you started."

    When I don't want to do what I know I should, I tell myself this and I always make it through it.
  • nisijam5
    nisijam5 Posts: 9,964 Member
    Get your *kitten* up and moving

    --or--

    Dumb *kitten*...why did you drink that beer last night...now you gotta exercise and burn it off

    not really famous...but, it works
  • Wishful
    Wishful Posts: 618 Member
    Just wait until ___o'clock before you eat anything else!

    My own self-speak to fight the cravings!
  • Amy154
    Amy154 Posts: 52
    Motivational Song---
    I'm Coming Out---Diana Ross!!!

    Awesome!

    A
  • RushinBruisette
    RushinBruisette Posts: 2,109 Member
    Well, this one for starters:

    'Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up and thinks, "Today I must run faster than the quickest lion, or I will be killed." Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up and thinks, "Today I must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or I will starve." So whether you are a gazelle or a lion, when you wake up, you better get running....' :wink: this one is for the days I do C25k

    I too stay 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' especially if I'm wanting something really sweet and chocolately :blushing:

    'Shake it like a salt shaker' and 'Just Dance' for multiple reasons (for thise who know me, you should get it :laugh: )
  • Natalie7227
    Natalie7227 Posts: 39
    This is not really a quotation but something that I have believed in!

    God has given us the greatest gift ever (our bodies) and he wants us to use it to the fullest potential but you can only do that if you take care of it. You can always catch disease but you can't catch health. YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE HEALTH. And that is what I am choosing for the rest of my life. We are all worth it.
  • heidiberr
    heidiberr Posts: 643 Member
    I also love this one:
    "Footsteps in the sands of time are not made by sitting down. Dare to be remarkable"
  • LainMac
    LainMac Posts: 412 Member
    "Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda

    "Fall down seven times, get up eight. " -Japanese Proverb
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