Motivational Diet Quotes

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

  Erma Bombeck

  Loss, Two, Pounds

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• I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Fitness, Book

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• I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

  Totie Fields

  Drinking, Failure, Food

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• The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

  Andy Rooney

  Book, Loss, Dieting

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• If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

  Jean Kerr

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Loss

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  Paul Dudley White

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

  Mae West

  Food, Humor, Sassy

  "The wit and wisdom of Mae West".

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• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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• One should eat to live, not live to eat.

  Moliere

  Inspiring, Food, Weight Loss

  1668 L' Avare, act 3, sc.1.

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• The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

  Margaret Cho

  Brain, Inspirational Weight Loss, Dieting

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• The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

  Jackie Gleason

  Funny, Inspiring, Food

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• Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

  Socrates

  Food, Weight Loss, Healthy Habits

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Drinking, Beer, Weight Loss

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.

  Steve Burns

  Food, Cooking, Dieting

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• It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Motivational, Food

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• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Fitness, Food, Weight Loss

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186

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• The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Loss, Purpose

  The Unquiet Grave Pt I

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• More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Weight Loss

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We never repent of having eaten too little.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Food, Weight Loss

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 21 February (1825)

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• My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

  Harry Secombe

  Loss, Advice, Dieting

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• A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Loss, Doe, Weight

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• I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

  Shelley Winters

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Weight Loss

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