What quote motivates you? Here is my motivator!

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  • ginabbar
    ginabbar Posts: 1
    " I would rather be covered in SWEAT at the gym, than covered with CLOTHES at the beach....."
  • nsmith6325
    nsmith6325 Posts: 41
    "Inspiration is a momentary cessation of stupidity." - unknown

    "Winning isn't everything, but wanting to is." - Vince Lombardi

    "The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities." - Vic Braden

    "The difference between the possible and the impossible lies in the man's determination." - Tommy Lasorda
  • christyd4
    christyd4 Posts: 191
    Here is one of mine

    Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • JeanniebeanL79
    JeanniebeanL79 Posts: 96 Member
    ~ Just Breathe ~
    I hear that in my KOGA workout and love it! :-)
  • "It doesn't matter how slow you run, you're still lapping everybody on the couch"
  • amberm912
    amberm912 Posts: 85 Member
    "You are not alone. You are not a failure. Be proud that youve tried. Just bc you have slipped doesnt mean you cant recover. Keep trying and dont give up, Find out how to learn from your relapse to succeed next time."



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  • LeellenMack
    LeellenMack Posts: 141 Member
    I don't know who said it but all day here is what I run through my mind:

    "A year from now you will have wished you started today"

    Every year on vacations, birthdays, holidays I resolve to not be heavy by the next year and then beat myself up when I am, so this helps me remember that feeling.
  • LeellenMack
    LeellenMack Posts: 141 Member
    Oh and:

    "The food you eat can be either the safest & most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison" - Ann Wigmore
  • ktfitzgerald
    ktfitzgerald Posts: 369 Member
    "The miracle isn’t that I finished; the miracle is that I had the courage to start"--John Bingham - spokesman for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training program
  • chrissyKar
    chrissyKar Posts: 98 Member
    one day at a time

    :wink:
  • 1grammie
    1grammie Posts: 163
    So many good quotes. The one I say to myself is: "This too shall pass."
  • PSmillie
    PSmillie Posts: 26 Member
    May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
    ee cummings.
  • pregmeg119
    pregmeg119 Posts: 151 Member
    "This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, in it's place is something you have left behind, let it be something good" -Author Unknown
  • junepinktigger
    junepinktigger Posts: 88 Member
    I heard this a few years ago. and only the other night i thought about it after a very thin girl comment on me going to the gym.

    i may be fat
    but you are ugly
    at least i can diet,

    and after my gym session i was more determent to do it for me not for anyone else
  • Misslisat
    Misslisat Posts: 203 Member
    A body at rest stays at rest. A body in motion stays in motion.
  • km_jenn
    km_jenn Posts: 107
    Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

    You can't go back and make a new beginning, but you can start today and create your happy ending.
  • baiger
    baiger Posts: 5
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  • olee67
    olee67 Posts: 208 Member
    "If you're abscent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during of my success." -Will Smith
  • MsQt
    MsQt Posts: 793 Member
    "Why do I succeed? I succeed because I am willing to do the things you are not. I will fight against the odds. I will sacrifice. I am not shackled by fear, insecurity or doubt. I feel those emotions but I drink them in and then swallow them away to the blackness of hell. I am motivated by accomplishment, not pride. Pride consumes the weak and kills their heart from within. If I fall... I will get up. If I am beaten... I will return. I will never stop getting better. I will never give up... EVER. That is why I succeed." This is what's gonna get me through the day =)
  • StrongerJess
    StrongerJess Posts: 185 Member
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  • cherrieruns
    cherrieruns Posts: 342 Member
    ** Courage to Start, Strength to Endure and Resolve to Finish. ~~ given to me on a charm so author unknown to me.

    ** I May not be able to change every Thing that I face, But I cannot Change ANYTHING until I face it. author unknown

    **All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother. Abe Lincoln

    **It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop. Wisdom of Confucius

    **There will come a day when I can no longer do this. Today is not that day. aurhor unknown.
  • MsQt
    MsQt Posts: 793 Member
    "use this in life in general but my this was the first words my trainer said to me when I said I Cant!:

    Invictus

    Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.

    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.

    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll.
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.
    William Ernest Henley
  • kmillers
    kmillers Posts: 144 Member
    Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Marianne Williamson
  • jburls23
    jburls23 Posts: 22
    "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming." - Dorie from 'Finding Nemo'

    "It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll.
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul." - William Ernest Henley "Invictus"


    I absolutely love the Invictus poem!! One of my favs!!
  • kimsue123
    kimsue123 Posts: 24 Member
    To thine ownself be true...
  • Rylie324
    Rylie324 Posts: 58 Member
    Love this topic!

    I have a few:

    Your not going to get the butt you want by sitting on the one you have!

    Do NOT reward your self with food, you're not a dog.

    People who say it can not be done should not interrupt those who are doing it!

    And my favorite
         
    Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
  • StarkLark
    StarkLark Posts: 476 Member
    Some great quotes posted here! This is my current favorite, and although it isn't specifically about health/weight-loss it really gets me fired up to reach my goals.

    "Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson

    you should listen to a song by a guy named "Keb Mo'" its called "let your light shine" and I love it! your quote reminded me of the song...the lyrics go.....So get out of the way and let your light shine, let your love show....its a short ride, down a long road....
    I'll check it out, thanks! :)
  • StarkLark
    StarkLark Posts: 476 Member
    Some great quotes posted here! This is my current favorite, and although it isn't specifically about health/weight-loss it really gets me fired up to reach my goals.

    "Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson

    Don't laugh but that made me tear up. It truly spoke to me!
    I feel the same way! Happy you saw it :bigsmile:
  • buffyblank
    buffyblank Posts: 5 Member
    Put one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be walking down the road ~ paraphrased from Big Bird.
  • HisJellyBean
    HisJellyBean Posts: 112
    "therse no better motavation than sucess" - My grandma
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