[Jen415]

Hi fellow clubbers....

I'm looking to start a list of inspirational quotes. It can be directly or indirectly related to weight loss.

Anyone care to contribute? I'll start with one of my favorites....

"Discipline is simply trading what you want NOW with what you want MOST."--Anonymous

Thanks!

[DishyFishy]

Here are a couple of Frank Clark quotations I like:

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realising that life is made up of little things.

and

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

[starting_over]

This first one is one I found out of a book I am reading...it really had an effect on me...therefore I remembered it... It pretty much tells you to change your way of thinking

“If you always think little, believe little, and expect little, then you will receive little.”

- Joel Osteen

And here is one of my favorites...

“I am what I am today because of what I believed about myself yesterday. And I will be tomorrow what I believe about myself right now.”

- Joel Osteen

And there is also one down in my signature:

[natenkayliesmom]

Don'tcha just love Joel Osteen?? I like that one too... "I am what I am today because of what I believed about myself yesterday...." It's so true. "Self talk" can make you or break you.

I can't think of any motivational sayings right now. I'm sure as soon as I get offline I'll think of a hundred.

"I don't try to be perfect, I just try to be a bit better than I was yesterday."
-Unknown

And also see my signature!

[Jen415]

These are all GREAT! Would love more if anyone wants to share!!

[satylite]

Not as much a quote as a verse (or two or three), but I've always found this to be very inspirational:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?".
Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
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

I'm not incredibly religious, but to me there's something unbelievably spiritual and empowering about those words.

Oh, and if that's not for you, there's always:

Be excellent to each other.

-- Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan

Because all I ever needed to know about life I learned from Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure. (And I'm only half kidding! )

[cuqt]

I'm surprised that this thread was so... short. I love quotes, especially inspirational ones... we need more material like that here!

Here is a quote my friend threw out there at me tonight - Theodore Roosevelt said it. I'm leaving it in the context of our conversation (below) because it was just so well timed and unexpected ... and appropriate... it made me cry. I basically was talking to my friend about how I have been trying to decide whether or not to even bother meeting some guy that I've been talking to - because I think that if the guy sees me "in real life" that he will be absolutely disgusted and probably never talk to me again...

(19:55:45) me: did you read my email about that guy?
(19:55:53) him: umm... I think so let me check
(19:57:27) him: you need to drop the assumption that guys will get scared when they see you
(19:57:43) him: yeah so you might not be a drop dead model gorgeous...some guys dont care that much
(19:57:51) me: mom made a good point to me today
(19:58:14) me: she said i could either a] be scared and never know or b] go and possibly make a new friend
(19:58:27) him: take option B
(19:58:30) me: i am not trying to impress him
(19:58:56) me: but i am going to be irritated if he does the "oh no shes fat, cant hang out with her" thing
(19:59:35) him: of course you should be irritated but at least youll know his personality
(20:00:02) him: 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 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 and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
(20:00:32) him: read that

[LegallyBrunette]

Originally Posted by aprylcadabra

"I don't try to be perfect, I just try to be a bit better than I was yesterday."
-Unknown

I love that quote!

[YP1]

Originally Posted by LegallyBrunette

I love that quote!

It was in my sig for a while, I just made it up I don't know whether anyone else came up with the same thing or whether that's where you saw it though.

[BarbaraAnn]

Oh, I have several favorites. Unfortunately the list I found them on did not give credit so they are Unknown.

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."

"If genetics were a gun it would only set the hammer.
It's lifestyle that pulls the trigger."

"Until you value yourself, you won't value time.
Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

"The greatest thing in life is not where you are, but the direction in which you are moving."

"If you want more, you have to require more from yourself."

"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can."

"We're still not where we're going but we're not where we were."

"Out of the strain of doing...into the peace of done."

"Depression is only anger without enthusiasm."

"The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it."

"Dream lofty dreams and as you dream, so you shall become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be."

[YP1]

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling. But rising every time we fall."

[Goddess Jessica]

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -Sir Francis Bacon

[lessofsarahtolove]

"Effort is restorative."

"Your habits will make you....or they will break you."

[Jillegal]

"Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn vos Savant

"You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures." - Charles C. Noble