You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the **** she is.
Ellen Degeneres

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
David Viscott


You're never beaten until you admit it.
George S. Patton

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
Lee Iacocca

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Unknown Author

You don't realize how strong a person really is until you see them at their weakest moment.
Unknown Author

Great list! Thanks for sharing

I don't have a clue who coined these phrases, but they are helpful for weight loss inspiration:

1) If you want to do something, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.

2) If you bite it, write it.

3) Next month you'll wish you'd started today.

4) If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

5) If not now, when?

6) Being fat is hard. Losing weight is hard. Maintenance is hard. Pick your hard.

And my fave....

7) If hunger isn't the problem, don't use food as the solution. (my siggie)

I love the ones that remind us that a month from now we'll wish we started today... The ones that encourage us to not put our well-being off anymore.

I also really love the "choose your hard" one -- I saw that for the first time in someone's signature and it stuck with me. It's very, very true. Thanks for the reminder

I love quotes and looking for them. Thanks for the opportunity!

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The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.

Harold Wilkins
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.

Heraclitus
There is nothing permanent except change.

Swedish Proverb
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

Thomas Jefferson
We never repent of having eaten too little.

Henry Sambrooke Leigh
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.

Arnold H. Glasgow
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.

Great reading ladies!!!! Thanks!!

Wow! Those are great! I may have to transfer them to a word document and print them off!

Cindy- love the sig and your avatar! They all match so well!

Love the quotes! I added Jane's #6 to my siggy!

Plus saved them in a Word doc to print out later and maybe tape to my bathroom mirror!

I love quotes. I write the ones I find most motivating at the top of each page in my food/training journal to keep me focussed - mostly for the training. Here's a few more:

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion. - Muhammad Ali

This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my (!@#$%^&*) six hours a day. What are you on? - Lance Armstrong

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. - Minna Thomas Antrim (For those of us who have started this journey more than once)

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.


Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, "WOW, What a ride!!" Unknown (one of my absolute favourites!)

The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat- AJ Cronin

Great quotes, Lifeguard! Thanks!

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." Love it!

I love quotes. A few of my favorites:

"You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head... NOT in your stomach." -Jean Nidetch

"It's choice... not chance... the determines your destiny. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved."-Jean Nidetch

"You can hide your food, but you can't hide what it does to you" -??

Ain't it the truth!!

" working to be an after!" you said it all right there. wish i thought of that ! May all here on FC be blessed with the strength to be an after!!