Inspiring quotes from members

[Dans Health]

I found that stopping when I've made enough progress, like a goal. Though I try my best to not slip, I tend to think more when I don't build too much pressure on myself. Has this technique worked for you too?

New member here! Howdy!

[ellis]

Welcome, Dan!

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.

[ibleedlipstick]

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

[luvmyboys]

Great thread!

how about this one I think from oa.

It works if you work it.

[Too Cuddly]

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

[grabec]

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.

[BellaDiva]

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

[bucketwithapurpose]

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!"

[BellaDiva]

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."

[Little Carol]

This is a very encouraging thread. Keep up the good work, everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[suzan]

All quotes are really inspirational! thanks for sharing them

[mimi2004]

"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.

[divinechaos]

"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

[blueenough]

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!

[HotWings]

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.