I have a Word file that I am starting with quotes that are inspiration that can be meant for weight loss and exercising. I thought it would be cool if we could all share one favorite one. I'm going to put them in my file for "down" days.
So I will start. I can't remember where I found this or when, but here it is! It's good for me when I fall off plan especially or have a bad Mommy day!
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” -Emerson
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
Socrates
Take twice as long to eat half as much.
Anonymous
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson
One way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
Arnold H. Glasgow
In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink and the rest left empty.
Talmud
More die in the United States of too much food than too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Saint Francis de Sales
The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.
Henry Sambrooke Leigh
We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson
Oh, I have a collection of 'em in my journal that keep me motivated, though not necessarily specifically weight/health related. A lot of them have to do with being brave, because ****, changing your life is/was scary. To me, at least.
You must act as if it were impossible to fail.
-Ashanti proverb
The road to Someday leads to the town of Nowhere. Procrastination is the silent killer.
-Anthony Robbins.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
-Henry David Thoreau
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to persue them.
-Walt Disney
You wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought of you realized how seldom they do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt.
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
-Mary Anne Radmacher
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
Happiness is a form of courage.
-Holbrook Jackson
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
-Oprah Winfrey
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
-Anne Lamott
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
-Katherine Mansfield.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
-H.G. Wells.
It is our choices that show who we are, far more than our abilities.
-J.K. Rowling
I do the best I know how, the best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
Always use one of the new---and far more reliable elastic measuring tapes to check on the waistline.
-Miss Piggy
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.
-Albert Einstein
"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days, I had lost exactly two weeks" -- Joe. E. Lewis
"Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you would like to lose half a pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times." Randy Glasbergen
"No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office." George Bernard Shaw
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ~ Calvin Coolidge
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