Share your favorite motivation/fitness/life quotes- whatever! Anything that inspires you!

Allison1385
Allison1385 Posts: 353 Member
edited November 25 in Motivation and Support
"maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place" ♡

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  • redperphexion
    redperphexion Posts: 193 Member
    My motivation that's worked during workouts is "the mind tires before the body". I don't know why, but this motto/matra keeps me going.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Very brief and to the point.... JUST DO IT!
  • DaceyG1990
    DaceyG1990 Posts: 103 Member
    "The joy of discipline or the pain of regret which would be today?"
  • LC_onelove
    LC_onelove Posts: 30 Member
    During my run "I can do this, I AM doing this, I WILL do this, because I didn't come out here to quit, I came to run". B)
  • ARC1603
    ARC1603 Posts: 113 Member
    Just typed a couple of quotes I love on another thread:
    Persistence not perfection
    One bad meal won't make you fat like one good meal won't make you skinny

    I also like fail to prepare and you prepare to fail
  • angel_fire35
    angel_fire35 Posts: 30 Member
    Anything worth having is worth working very hard for...
    If this were easy, everyone would do it...
    And my very own saying is..."BE brave STAY humble and FIGHT/TRAIN hard both in the gym and your life" :smiley:
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    There's the classic, a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. :D
    And I'm a fan of Nike: Just do it.
    Also, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels (the words are a bit out of fashion these days. lol)
  • WeighToGoJudy
    WeighToGoJudy Posts: 43 Member
    If it's important you'll find a way, if not you'll find an excuse.
  • kar328
    kar328 Posts: 4,159 Member
    I saw this on a bracelet and it was like a lightning bolt hit me. I bought the bracelet. It may end up being a goal tattoo one of these days.

    "She believed she could, so she did."
  • jkestens63
    jkestens63 Posts: 1,164 Member
    I am not finished when I'm tired, I'm finished when I've done what I planned to do." Sometimes that last 15 min of cardio or weights is really tough as I get tired, but I never cut my workout short. I'm done only when I'm truly done.
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    Food is not a feeling.
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,401 Member
    Pain is weakness leaving the body.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    "Exercising would be more fun if the calories actually screamed while you burned them. " I love that quote. It's not inspiring, but is hilarious. Sometimes I look at people at the gym and imagine all those thousands of calories they're all burning screaming. :smiley:

    Nando Parrado's book "Miracle In The Andes" is the single most inspiring thing I ever read. I challenge anyone to read that book and not finish it humbled and inspired.

    I like the movie "The Gabby Douglas Story." It may not be great cinema, but is very inspiring, IMO.

    My success inspires me. The success of others inspires me. MFP can be a very inspirational place sometimes. :)
  • 19gabriela01
    19gabriela01 Posts: 2,090 Member
    "You can do more!!!"

    "Be always the hardest working one in a room"

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,699 Member
    I only have a few quotes that have really meant much to me. I'm not a quote person. But this is one ...

    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.'s mother.
  • ekat120
    ekat120 Posts: 407 Member
    Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.
    The secret to success is the consistency of pursuit.
    If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.
    If hunger isn't the problem, then eating isn't the solution.
    Success is a staircase, not a doorway.
    Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will be able to see farther.
    Every time you say, "F*** it, I don't care," there's a 100% chance that you'll care later.

    I save a lot of quotes :smile: Those are some of my favorites.
  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 400 Member
    Nice, ekat120. I save them too, and when I get discouraged or just need a boost I read them.
  • IILikeToMoveItMoveIt
    IILikeToMoveItMoveIt Posts: 1,172 Member
    If you are doing what is necessary, you don't need to worry...
  • IconStillFree
    IconStillFree Posts: 262 Member
    “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.
  • firststepformefal
    firststepformefal Posts: 180 Member
    Motivation gets you started, habit keeps you going. Jillian Michaels.

    It will hurt.
    It will take time.
    It will require willpower.
    You will need to make healthy decisions.
    It requires sacrifice.
    You will need to push your body to its max.
    There will be temptations.
    But, I promise you, when you reach your goal, it's worth it. unknown
  • amez_7
    amez_7 Posts: 13 Member
    These are really great! Definitely some I can keep as reminders to myself:)
  • Endless_Journey
    Endless_Journey Posts: 135 Member
    "Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their *kitten* and do anything to make it happen"
  • mommarnurse
    mommarnurse Posts: 515 Member
    I tell myself this when I'm running and I have a negative thought (such as "my legs feel a little tired)
    "I'm not done. I'm not going to quit. Just keep running. One foot in front of the other" and then I do that.
  • ohmyllama
    ohmyllama Posts: 161 Member
    "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." — Vincent Van Gogh
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