Good Weight Loss Motivation Quotes

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  247 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

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

  Shelley Winters

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Weight Loss

  14 Copy quote

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  147 Copy quote

• If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  58 Copy quote

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

  David Viscott

  Motivational, Positive, Fitness

  DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

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• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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

  Totie Fields

  Drinking, Failure, Food

  53 Copy quote
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  You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

  Mike Murdock

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mike Murdock (2012). “Seeds Of Wisdom On Habits”, p.5, Wisdom International Inc

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  435 Copy quote

• Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

  Robert Quillen

  Humorous, Loss, Exercise

  "The Sage of Fountain Inn" by Alexander Woollcott in Cosmopolitan magazine, September 1933.

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• The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

  Bob Hope

  Good Friend, Weight Loss, Dieting

  58 Copy quote

• 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

  118 Copy quote

• 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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• 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 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're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.

  Julius Erving

  Fitness, Health, Loss

  10 Copy quote

• That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Weight Loss, Dieting

  7 Copy quote

• Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

  Phil McGraw

  Motivational, Jobs, Husband

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Loss, Taste, Funny Diet

  Elizabeth Berg (2008). “The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation”, p.137, Random House

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

  Socrates

  Food, Weight Loss, Healthy Habits

  13 Copy quote

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

  Margaret Cho

  Brain, Inspirational Weight Loss, Dieting

  7 Copy quote

• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

  35 Copy quote