"You don't have to be great to start. You have to start to be great."

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

Love your quotes too!

I have another one too (my Pinterest collection has about 500 quotes and I love every single one of them!):

"If you want or need something, visualize it in your mind and the Universe will provide the way for you to have it. It is good energy attracting good energy. Think well and you will live well."

Great thread! Love reading the responses

Some of my favorites:

You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.

Actually, I just woke up one day and decided I didn't want to feel like that anymore, or ever again. So I changed. Just like that.

Far from what I once was, but not yet what I'm going to be.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Strong is what happens when you run out of weak.

I'm gonna make the rest of my life the best of my life.

Still time to change the road you're on.

If you want something you've never had then you've got to do something you've never done.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you don't stop thinking about yesterday.

Everything is ok in the end. If it's not ok, then it's not the end.

A person often meets her destiny on the road she took to avoid it.

You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

At any given moment you have the power to say this is NOT how the story is going to end.

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

You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be.

The voice in your head that says you can't do this is a liar.

You can feel sore tomorrow or you can feel sorry tomorrow. You choose.

And my ultimate favorites, in my avatar and sig:

Do not let perfection stand in the way of progress.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

Whoa, sorry so long! I love quotes!!

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." — Mark Twain.

Love, love, love this quote! For far too long I made everyone else and their needs a priority and became optional in my own life. Only when I made myself a priority in my own life did I find success.

Curvy - that's a great one!

Oh curvey WOW that is a Powerful one! I am writing that with a sharpy for my refrig!!!!

Thanks, ladies I appreciate that you find it powerful as well. Yet, even having this as one of my internal mantras did not prevent me from deprioritizing myself in my most recent relationship (have since broken up). More lessons learned and for that I'm grateful.

You can either cry about it or do something about it. The choice is yours.

You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.

When there is no struggle, there is no strength.

However long the night, the dawn will break.

Tough times never last but tough people do.

I love your idea! (:

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer

Run while you can.

Good things come to those who work their butts off.

She believed she could so she did.

"Disgust is a powerful motivator"......says me when I arise from my nightly bath and look straight across to the ill-placed mirror....I have some serious denial about my appearance sometimes.....

"get up! Get up! Get Up! GET UP! GET UP!!!!!

From Pinterest -

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

You don't have to go fast, you just have to GO.

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

This is a slow process. Don't get discouraged.

When feeling overwhelmed by a faraway goal, repeat the following - I have it in me right now, to get me to where I want to be later.

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

Running, cheaper than therapy.

'Cause I'd rather be sore now than sorry tomorrow.

Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to stay the same.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Love this one. I feel like it represents my life right now. I had no choice but to believe I could lose this weight. So I did.

...niiiiiiice!....

--To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
--The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one. Elbert Hubbard
--A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. Elbert Hubbard
--The best way to predict the future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
--People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar
--I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
--Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison
--The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince. Vincent Lombardi
--Success is a staircase, not a doorway. Dottie Walters
--Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb
--Those who wish to sing, always find a song. Swedish Proverb
--In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink and the rest left empty. Talmud
--Stumbling is not falling. Portuguese Proverb
--The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live. Socrates
--Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic. Anonymous
--If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. Jack Dixon