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What motivational quote kept you going ?

Posts: 103 Member
edited February 13 in Getting Started
Theres alot of inspiring motivational quotes . Which one stuck to you . That kept you going during this rough journey

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  • Posts: 518 Member
    " if you had kept going every time you gave up, you'd be there by now."
  • I really like the quote the qb from The Seahawks told his team. Why not me.
  • It's not a quote, but a key a friend gave me with the word courage on it. I wear it almost everyday as a reminder that I have to go after what I want and not hide what I think feel or believe. The goal is when I no longer need the key I give it to somebody else who needs the reminder more than I do. It really does help and do does the company that makes the keys. You should check out their web site the givingkeys.com where they post amazing stories that are often really inspiring.
  • Posts: 31 Member
    As long as I am moving, I am lapping everyone on the couch.
  • Posts: 337 Member
    Earn that shower.
  • Posts: 44 Member
    Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to stay the same!
  • Posts: 188 Member
    Motivation is false. Habit is real.
  • Posts: 2,099 Member
    You can have results or you can have excuses, you can't have both
  • My LOVE of food sent me on a quest to discover new foods that were good for me.
    It became an adventure, a hobby, not a denial thing...
  • Posts: 3,550 Member
    This one I found on Runner's World in regards to hills, but can be used metaphorically as well:

    "Each step is one step closer to the top."
  • "If you're tired of starting over, stop quiting"
  • Posts: 465 Member
    "You'll never get the butt you want by sitting on the butt you have."
  • Posts: 129 Member
    Ive always loved this quote, its not really a fitness quote, but its always warmed my heart, favorite

    -"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou
  • Posts: 85 Member
    "You only get out of it what you put into it." - TRX instructor ... and I've found it's true.
  • Posts: 180 Member
    From Michael Irvin's Hall of Fame speech.....look up, get up and don't ever give up
  • Posts: 1,700 Member
    No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Posts: 196 Member
    "Little PICKERS wear BIG Knickers"

    Knickers is the UK version of underwear!
  • Posts: 69 Member
    One mile at a time, one pound at a time...
  • :"Life is a dream. Realize it." Mother Theresa
  • Posts: 289 Member
    "Choose the difficult right rather than the easy wrong."
  • One more of my favorites "you didn't get fat overnight, you're not gonna get skinny overnight"
  • "Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most!"
  • Posts: 304 Member
    Although not a motivational quote, it got me started and has kept me going.

    "You know how to do it."

    (best friend's response to "I should really lose some weight").

    So, based on that, I think a quote I read when I was a teenager (can't remember where... Google says "Mind Power: Remote Influence Techniques", meh) may have subconsciously worked in tandem with the above quote: "The only difference between a man who knows and a man who succeeds is practice."
  • Posts: 115 Member
    I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

    Philippians 4:13
  • Posts: 45 Member
    The one I have kept on my profile since I started:

    "I didn't change... I just woke up."


    For those that it doesn't help... Try some of this.....

    "I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten."
    - Eckhart Tolle
  • Posts: 72 Member
    "Suck it up now so you don't have to suck it in later"

    I need that tough love motivation!
  • There's some GREAT stuff here! Thanks!!
  • Posts: 1,414 Member
    My sister came to visit for Thanksgiving and she said "If it doesn't challenge you...it doesn't change you."

    She said she heard it somewhere, so she is not the originator.

    One of my favorite advice quotes is "Show me who your friends are and I'll show you who you are." It sounds much nicer than "Lie down with dogs and get up wtih fleas."

    Oh and also "muscle weighs more than fat," "the scale is a liar, measurements for truth!"
  • Posts: 1,616 Member
    'If you're going through hell keep going' - Winston Churchill

    I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' - Muhammad Ali
  • Posts: 239 Member
    I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

    Philippians 4:13

    This one for me too!
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