What is your favorite motivational quote, saying or mantra?

My favorite is by Mark Twain: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." I apply that to EVERYTHING in my life. Especially work since I'm very new and young and faith is very short in my line of work. It helps me not give up when everyone says I'm not experienced enough to handle something.

And it helps a lot when you're doing heavy strength training and cardio.

Mine is "Nothing tastes as good as fit feels."

You, obviously, have never had cheescake.

And I used to agree with that statement until someone suggested it leads to an unhealthy attitude towards food.

See, I think that statement is WAAAAY better than "Nothing tastes as good as SKINNY feels."

Because really, that is an unhealthy attitude towards food.

I love the switch to it by adding 'fit' instead of 'skinny'.

As for a favorite mantra... hmmm, that's tough because during my work outs and runs my brain is always just repeating "Go, dammit. GO!"

"Go Big or Go Home!"

I had originally used it when working out (the husband uses it on me all the time: "What, you're not upping your weights? Why don't you just go home then?!" LOL!) Now it's my motto for pretty much everything.

"The secret to successful weightloss is simple; self love." < that one is on my ticker.

Lol, what keeps me going is self-hate

True... I struggle with both. But, I always seem to get a better workout when I hate myself because I always put on some Three Days Grace or Mudvayne and go crazy in the gym. lol

Lol - it's effective, you just have to use it to your advantage!

to quote Dr Cox from Scrubs...

The key to my exercise program is this one simple truth: I hate my body....Do you understand that the second you look in the mirror and you're happy with what you see, baby you just lost the battle!

Good results = Battle won. But the war will never be over. Ever. ;P

Shut the F*** up and do it! -Bob from the biggest loser

Whenever I find myself using that dirty word "exercise" I have to wash my mouth out with chocolate!

i turn negativity into my motivation for fuel

"If I am not for myself, who will be? And when I am for myself, what am 'I'? And if not now, when?" - Hillel

This is long, but I love it:

"Life is tough, that's a given. When you stand up, you're gonna be shoved back down. When you're down, you're gonna be stepped on. My advice to you doesn't come with a lot of bells and whistles. It's no secret, you'll fall down, you'll stumble, you'll get pushed, you'll land square on your face. And every time that happens, you get back on your feet. You get up just as fast as you can, no matter how many times you need to do it. Remember this, success has been and continues to be defined as getting up one more time than you've been knocked down. If experience has taught me anything, it's that nothing is free and living ain't easy. Life is hard, real hard, incredibly hard. You fail more often than you win, nobody is handing you anything. It's up to you to puff up your chest, stretch your neck and overcome all the difficult, the nasty, the mean, the unfair. You want more than you have now? Prove it! You wanna be the very best there is? Get out there and earn it! Once you decide that, you'll know where it is you want to be, and you won't stop pushing forward until you get there! That's how winners are made. At the end of the day, success is what we all want. We all wanna win, and the race will be won. There is no question about that. So c'mon, get out on top, run faster, dream bigger, live better than you ever have before. This is in you. You can do this. Do it for yourself. Prove it to yourself."
-Limu

sample not sabotage,, that keeps me going when in situations where there are lots of foods I dont want to miss out on or feel left out from,,

Mine is 'bye bye'

Bye bye old slovenly habits
Bye bye old bad eating habits
Bye bye old waistline
Bye bye old stupid attitude

Some of you were great fun to have around (pizzas for lunch with extra cheese - yum!) but like a houseguest with BO, you have outstayed your welcome.

Bye bye.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. At any given moment you have the power to say: this is NOT how the story is going to end!

To win, you must first lose!

"Be the change you wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Ghandi
"No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it." - Napoleon Hill
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." - Chuck Palahniuk
"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most." - Chuck Palahniuk

and about a zillion others. I love quotations....

There's one specifically that I've been wanting to get a tattoo of:

"Would you scream with me, sing it sad and sweet? Would it make you cry? Would you finally see that all your lives are moments, all you words and closeness keep you here and human - whispering tonight?" - LUDO, Scream Scream Scream

My favorite motivational quote comes from Teddy Roosevelt:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

"Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment!"

I have also heard "Sweat is fat crying"

I also like "This isn't Sweat....it's Liquid AWESOME".