Welcome, Dan! :wave:
Yes, I know what you mean. I feel great every five pounds, and when I move down to the next 10 (ie: 180...170), I feel that I've really accomplished something. :yes: |
Here is my favorite!
There is no passion to be found in playing small; in settling for a life that is less than what you are capable of living- Nelson Mandela |
Great thread!
how about this one I think from oa. It works if you work it. :) |
I love this poem...
“Autobiography in Five Short Chapters” Portia Nelson I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost… I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes me forever to find a way out. II. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall in again. I can’t believe I am in the same place But, it isn’t my fault. It still takes a long time to get out. III. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in… it’s a habit. My eyes are open I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately. IV. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. V. I walk down another street. Hope it helps inspire you folks too :-D |
So, decided I need to quit buying raspberries as I eat carton after carton of them. Also, every evening I am defeated and eat eat eat which keeps me from making a bit more progress, which I want to do. I feel so good that I have been able to maintain my 18 pounds so far bu ned a bit more progress. I want to stay with this site. it helps. When someone tells me how much wt they have put on it makes me feel so good that I haven't yet. Reminding myself every day what I am supposed to be doing and why is so important. Yea oa.
|
I like all these quotes!
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep but I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." Alexander the Great I think this is one of my favorites |
Too Cuddly - Who wrote that? That's a great poem!!
Here's my favorite motivational quotes: "Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?" "I have not failed 1000 times, I have successfully found 1000 ways on how to NOT make a light bulb" "Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE. The word itself says "I'M POSSIBLE." "A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape." "Your day is every day!" |
Just found this one today on the back of my brother's graduation program handout:
"Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are foot prints on the moon." |
This is a very encouraging thread. Keep up the good work, everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
All quotes are really inspirational! thanks for sharing them
|
Goodbye Chubby , I love one of your quotes!
"Don't give up what you want most for what you want now". Repeating this in my head will surely give me strength when I am craving that candy or cookie! Thanks for the inspiration.
|
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" - Confucius "they can because they think they can" - Virgil "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." - Vince Lombardi "Impatience never commanded success." - Edwin H. Chapin "You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." - Author Unknown "He who hesitates is lost." - Proverb "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." - Mary Shelley And my personal favorite... "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls." - Winston Churchill |
Don't you just love a quote that reveals itself to you when you need it the most???
Your mistakes do not define you now; they tell you who you're not.- 3 Doors Down
also inspiring to me from the same is: You hide behind your walls of "maybe" and "nevers", forgetting that there's something more than just "knowing better". If you're afraid to fly then I guess you never will. You've got to live this life your given like it's the only one you've got! |
Some very inspiring quotes here!
My sister used to be an athletic trainer for a college football team. Just above the team's entrance leading onto the field there was this and I have never forgotten it - it is so true: "If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always gotten." I am not sure who said that, but it really made an impact on me. |
HotWings, I love that quote! It rings so true for me; if I keep up my old habits, how can I expect any change in myself?
I just finished reading Walden by Thoreau and found a few quotes I really enjoyed: "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." |
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 12:44 PM. |
Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.