oooh oooh! Fabulous quotes for Motivation!!!

http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquo tes/a/WeightLoss2.htm

i was just saying this has been an important *epiphany* for me...

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Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can

Please add your own favorite quotes :)

Wow this is a fantastic thread!

I'm not exactly who I wish I was, I'm not exactly where I want to be, but thank god I'm not exactly where I used to be....

 

LOL...hmmm I'm not sure I got it exactly......but again this is a GREAT thread

Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice.
--William Jennings Bryan

I agree it is a great place to come for motivation.

 motivation is like bathing -it doesn't last so we need it daily.

i am 5'8 and weigh 128, im 20 yrs old, and i have worked so hard for my body, and it seems anymore i dont have time for myself at all. i am an administrative assistant, and i sit on my butt, another thing i just moved to colorado, so the alltitude is different and i think its causeing me to eat more... haha what should i do? any suggestions???

Both in life and bicycling,
we should try to enjoy both sides of every hill.
- Howard Thornhill

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

A. Einsten

Foolish diets anyone?

Imagination is the highest kite you can fly.   Lauren Bacall

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.  It was in Good Housekeeping in the section they've been doing on people who have lost weight.

and,

Don't take life so seriously, it isn't permanent.

Fantastic thread :)

I don't have an inspirational quote, but I wanted to thank you guys for this thread, so I'll leave you with my favorite quote instead:

"Don't be humble, you're not that great."

~Golda Meir

Love all the great guotes. thanks for this site.

Learn to express rather than impress.  Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

E James Rohn

I thought I posted this a long time ago but didn't see it.

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." ~James Dean

Today's the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Abbs- I loved the quote about live -- I have said that many-many times and never knew it was James Dean. thanks for the info.

This was in my horoscope today and I thought how true..

If you want a positive outcome to a current battle, you have to stand your ground.

This is not a quote but I think we can relate to it.

The Young Lion By Orison S. Marden

A young lion, as the fable runs, was one day playing alone in the forest while his mother slept.

As the different objects attracted his attention, he thought he would explore a bit and see what the great world beyond his home was like. Before he realized it, he had wandered so far that he could not find his way back.

He was lost.

Very much frightened, he ran frantically in every direction calling piteously for his mother, but no mother responded.

Weary with his wanderings, he did not know what to do, when a sheep, whose offspring had been taken from her, hearing his pitiful cries, made friends with the lost lion, and adopted him.

The sheep became very fond of her foundling, which in a short while grew so much larger than herself that at times she was almost afraid of it.

The foster mother and her adopted lived very happily together, until one day a magnificent lion appeared, sharply outlined against the sky, on the top of an opposite hill. He shook his tawny inane and uttered a terrific roar, which echoed through the hills.

The sheep mother stood trembling, paralyzed with fear. But the moment this strange sound reached his ears, the young lionlistened as though spellbound, and a strange feeling which he had never before experienced surged through his being until be was all a-quiver.

The lion's roar had touched a chord in his nature that had never before been touched. It aroused a new force within him which he had never felt before.

New desires, a strange new consciousness of power possessed him. A new nature stirred in him, and instinctively, without a thought of what he was doing, he answered the lion's call with a corresponding roar.

Trembling with mingled fear, surprise and bewilderment at the new powers aroused within him, the awakened animal gave his foster mother a pathetic glance, and then, with a tremendous leap, started toward the lion on the hill.

The lost lion had found himself.

Up to this he had gamboled around his sheep mother just as though he were a lamb developing into a sheep, never dreaming he could do anything that his companions could not do, or that he had any more strength than the ordinary sheep.

He never imagined that there was within him a power which would strike terror to the beasts of the jungle. He simply thought he was a sheep, and would run at the sight of a dog and tremb1e at the howl of a wolf.

Now he was amazed to see the dogs, the wolves, and other animals which formerly had so terrified him flee from him.

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There is in every normal human being a Sleeping lion. It is just a question of arousing it, just a question of something happening that will awaken us, stir the depths of our being, and arouse the sleeping power within us.

Just as the young lion, after it had once discovered that it was a lion would never again be satisfied to live the life of a sheep, when we discover that we are more than mere clay, when we at last become Conscious that we are more than human, that we are gods in the making, we shall never again be satisfied to live the life of common clods of earth.

We shall feel a new sense of power welling up within us, a power which we never before dreamed we possessed, and never he quite the same again, never again he content with low-flying ideals, with a cheap success.

Ever after we will aspire. We will look up, struggle up and on to higher and ever higher planes.

Here are a few of my favorties:

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

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Most people prefer beauty over brains because most people can see better than they can think.

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Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.  <---note: that quote has NOTHING to do with the country's state of affairs. It is relevant to a personal situation involving a rather hot-headed realive of mine. 

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Nothing changes if nothing changes.

Lotta great quotes!

jcr wrote: "You've all heard this one, I'm sure, but it's a good one for weight-strugglers:

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels!"

No, jcr, I never did hear that one before and I love it! I'm nearing maintenance and will keep that in front of me. Thanks.

kansasgal wrote: "Here is a great video for motivation.

http://www.212movie.com/ "

Great movie! My favorite quote in the movie is this: "To get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done." It makes perfect sense.

And one of my personal favorites:

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

William Shakespeare

Original Post by humorpam:

"The most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." - B.C. Forbes

Thanks so much for this one! It was just what I needed today! My eyes welled up. And I'm refusing to let my setbacks define me.

Here's one of my favorites, from Dr. Phil: "You have to do what it takes to have what you want."

It just reminds how important action is. I have to do it. No one else can do it for me.

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."
- Unknown

"It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate."

- Henry David Thoreau

I'm new hee. I think the inspiration is awesome! My fave quote is

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" Eleanor Rosevelt