No matter where you’re at on your weight loss journey, these motivational quotes for weight loss will help you to get moving. Whether it’s a little or a lot, losing weight and keeping it off is no easy task.
Why are motivational weight loss quotes so important to our success?
Our thoughts are powerful. What we tell ourselves matters.
When we’re happier with a positive mindset, we tend to make healthier decisions, including those that lead to weight loss—such as saying no to junk food, getting enough sleep, moving more, taking care of your body and eating healthy.
Related: Get Happy Lose Weight; The Mind-Body Link That Matters
Unfortunately that voice in our head that says "give up" is usually louder than the one that says "keep going." So the next time you're feeling discouraged, read one of these encouraging, inspirational, motivational quotes to yourself to lift your mood.
How can I get myself motivated to lose weight?
Losing weight and keeping it off isn't easy. But neither is being overweight and out of shape.
As far as I'm concerned working to be in good health, in good spirits and able to fit into my clothes is WORTH the effort. After years of struggle I feel like I've finally unlocked the secret to lasting weight loss success:
1) Find your why. Have a strong reason for wanting to lose weight. For me it's all about being healthy, happy, and wanting to grow old gracefully and vibrantly. I want to be able to feel good so I can continue to travel and pursue my dreams.
2) Do it your way. It's important to lose weight your way, not someone else's. You need to find changes that you are willing to make forever, not jus for a day or a week or until you've reached your goal.
3) Focus on teeny tiny changes. It's much better to commit to a little change that you can actually accomplish regularly than a huge one that you are never able to get done. Years ago one of my favorite yogas told me to "only do as much yoga as feels good" because "a little yoga done often is better than a lot of yoga done rarely." Turns out this is the secret to any lasting behavior change.
Celebrate you successes. We are hardwired to do what makes us feel good. Find healthy ways to celebrate when you accomplish your new habits, hit your targets and achieve your goals, regardless of how small they seem. This positive feeling can help propel you forward.
What have good health quotes got to do with it?
Reading and collecting motivational and inspirational quotes - including ones for good health - is one of my favorite strategies for filling my mind with the positive thinking that can lead to increased health and happiness. I've gathered many of my favorites here in hopes they benefit you too.
Here are 10 of My Favorites About Good Health:
- "Happiness is the highest form of health." ~ Dalai Lama
- "The greatest wealth is health." ~ Virgil
- "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." ~ Hippocrates
- "I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you." ~ Joyce Meyer
- "Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health." ~ Julia Child
- "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." ~ Buddha
- "The first wealth is health." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning." ~ Thomas Jefferson
- "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." ~ Unknown
- "The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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A Year of Daily Weight Loss Motivational & Inspirational Quotes for Weight Loss
Here you'll find more than a year's worth of encouraging quotes to help you on your weight loss journey. Quotes about fitness, health, mindset, perseverance, success, positive thoughts and more.
Weight Loss Motivational Quotes - January
January 1
"We become what we think about." – Earl Nightingale
January 2
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." – Vincent Van Gogh
January 3
"The mind is everything. What you think you become." – Buddha
January 4
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
January 5
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." – Napoleon Hill
January 6
"Eat responsibly. You don't have to be a saint with your food, but you can't eat like every day is thanksgiving either." - Brad Pilon
January 7
"Our past may explain why we're suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage." - Joyce Meyer
January 8
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." – Alice Walker
January 9
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." – Rosa Parks
January 10
"If you can dream it, you can achieve it." – Zig Ziglar
January 11
"Remember, you become what you think. Think discouraging thoughts, and you'll get discouraged." - Joyce Meyer
January 12
"The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it." - Joyce Meyer
January 13
"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." – Marie Curie
January 14
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." – Oprah Winfrey
January 15
"Asking for something is easy… being responsible for it is the part that develops character." - Joyce Meyer
January 16
"If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak." - Joyce Meyer
January 17
"Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory." - Joyce Meyer
January 18
"The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice." - Joyce Meyer
January 19
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel." - Steve Furtick
January 20
"Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get." - Joyce Meyer
January 21
"There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest." - Peace Pilgrim
January 22
"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." - Plutarch
January 23
"There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same." - Joyce Meyer
January 24
Here's one of my favorite statements: "We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what's right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what's right, by a decision of your will using discipline and self-control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you're growing spiritually at that particular moment." - Joyce Meyer
January 25
"There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option." - Abigail Thomas, Thinking About Memoir
January 26
"You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both." - Joyce Meyer
January 27
"It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it." – La Rochefoucauld
January 28
"Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on." - Joyce Meyer
January 29
"Whether you think you can or can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
January 30
"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare
January 31
"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful." - Mark Victor Hansen
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Encouraging Weight Loss Quotes - February
February 1
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true." -Richard Bach
February 2
"Everything in moderation...including moderation." -Unknown
February 3
“Comparison is the death of joy.” -Mark Twain
February 4
"Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves." -Mahatma Gandhi
February 5
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." -Vidal Sassoon
February 6
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." -Dale Carnegie
February 7
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." -George Lorimer
February 8
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." -Wayne Dyer
February 9
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it." -Washington Irving
February 10
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons”
-Jim Rohn
February 11
“Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.” -Jim Rohn
February 12
“Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.” -Jim Rohn
February 13
“Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.” -Jim Rohn
February 14
“You must take personal responsibiity. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” -Jim Rohn
February 15
“When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.” -Jim Rohn
February 16
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”
-Jim Rohn
February 17
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
-Jim Rohn
February 18
“You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn ” -Jim Rohn
February 19
“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” -Jim Rohn
February 20
"Food is not the problem. It's what we do with food that becomes the problem. That's why we need to learn to keep everything in our lives - especially our eating - in proper balance." -Joyce Meyer
February 21
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” -Jim Rohn
February 22
"Know thyself." -Thales
February 23
"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends." -Pearl Buck
February 24
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."-Vince Lombardi
February 25
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin
February 26
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." -Abraham J. Heschel
February 27
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." -Truman Capote
February 28
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -John R. Wooden
Inspirational Quotes for Women & Men - March
March 1
"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." - Paul Goodman
March 2
"If you can organize your kitchen, you can organize your life."
-Louis Parrish
March 3
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
March 4
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
-Doris Lessing
March5
"A life lived in chaos is an impossibility..."
-Madeleine L'Engle
March 6
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into thin air."
-John Quincy Adams
March 7
"Rule One is never quit. Rule Two is refer to Rule One. Cake happens, but as long as you remember those rules, you'll be OK."
-Jaimie, WW Leader
March 8
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
-Napoleon Hill
March 9
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
-Vince Lombardi
March 10
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
-Winston S. Churchill
March 11
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
-Walt Disney Company
March 12
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
-Audrey Hepburn
March 13
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
-Winston S. Churchill
March 14
“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
March 15
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
March 16
"Commit to the process no matter how long it takes, and the payoffs and benefits can be greater than anything you ever imagined."
-Liz Josefsberg
March 17
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
-Confucious
March 18
"Everything is hard before it is easy."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
March 19
"What you do makes a difference. Andy have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."-Jane Goddall
March 20
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
March 21
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
March 22
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-George Eliot
March 23
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
-Thomas A. Edison
March 24
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
March 25
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
-Charles F. Kettering
March 26
"If you want to be skinny do what skinny people do."
-Brian Wansink
March 27
“If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself.”
-Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
March 28
“We become what we repeatedly do.”
-Sean Covey
March 29
"The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits."
-Dan Buettner
March 30
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
-Christopher Robin
March 31
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
-Stephen R. Covey
Weight Loss Motivational Quotes - April
April 1
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that. The really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
-Mark Twain
April 2
“You can’t do it all yourself. Don’t be afraid to rely on others to help you accomplish your goals.”
-Oprah Winfrey
April 3
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
-Thomas Jefferson
April 4
“A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”
-Patricia Neal
April 5
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
-Wayne Dyer
April 6
"We are what we repeatedly do; therefore excellence is not merely an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle
April 7
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."
-Lucille Ball
April 8
"Everything is hard before it is easy."
-Goethe
April 9
"It's choice not chance that determines our destiny."
-Jean Nidetch
April 10
"To lose patience is to lose the battle."
-Gandhi
April 11
"There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work and learning from your mistakes."
-Colin Powell
April 12
"The future depends on what you do today."
-Gandhi
April 13
“Things do not change; we change.”
–Henry David Thoreau
April 14
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
–Seneca
April 15
“Man’s life is a progress, not a station.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 16
“Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”
–Confucious
April 17
“There is almost one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.”
–Leo Tolstoy
April 18
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
–Bertrand Russell
April 19
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
–Benjamin Disraeli
April 20
“Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.”
–Benjamin Franklin
April 21
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
April 22
“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”
-Carl Jung
April 23
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” - Joyce Meyer
April 24
“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.” - Joyce Meyer
April 25
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.” - Joyce Meyer
April 26
“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.” - Joyce Meyer
April 27
“Remember the five simple rules to be happy: Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.” ~Unknown
April 28
“Saying yes to happiness means learning to say no to things and people that stress you out.” ~Thelma Davis
April 29
"What you deny or ignore, you delay. What you accept and face, you conquer." -Robert Tew
April 30
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."-Nelson Mandela
Motivating Weight Loss Quotes - May
May 1
“Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.” ~Alan Cohen
May 2
“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” ~Iris Murdoch
May 3
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” ~Albert Camus
May 4
“How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.” ~Gerald Jampolsky
May 5
“There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
May 6
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” - Hippocrates
May 7
“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.” - Hippocrates
May 8
“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.” - Hippocrates
May 9
“Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.” - Hippocrates
May 10
“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.” - Hippocrates
May 11
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest ?of human blessings, and learn how by his own ?thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.” - Hippocrates
May 12
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” - Hippocrates
May 13
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guillaume Apollinaire
May 14
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking." - Friedrich Nietzsche
May 15
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey
May 16
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
May 17
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
May 18
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
May 19
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
May 20
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain
May 21
"If I really want to improve my situation I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself." - Stephen R. Covey
May 22
"There is no such thing as failure if you simply refuse to quit." - Joyce Meyer.
May 23
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 24
"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces." - Judith Viorst
May 25
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." - Thomas Carlyle
May 26
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
May 27
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
May 28
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of." - Jim Rohn
May 29
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress. - Frederick Douglass
May 30
"People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet." - Temple Grandin
May 31
"Change can be hard at the beginning, messy in the middle, but what happens at the end can be beautiful. It's worth the effort." (adapted from Robin Sharma)
Inspiring Quotes - June
June 1
“When you know what you want and you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” — Jim Rohn
June 2
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” - Pablo Picasso
June 3
"Act the way you'd like to be, and soon you'll be the way you act." - Leonard Cohen
June 4
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” - A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
June 5
“To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.” —Mark Twain
June 6
“Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.” - Mary Kay Ash
June 7
“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.” - Mary Kay Ash
June 8
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
June 9
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” – David Bly
June 10
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
June 11
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
June 12
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
June 13
Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
June 14
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
June 15
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
June 16
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
June 17
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
June 18
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.” - Steve Maraboli
June 19
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” - Jim Rohn
June 20
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.” -Samuel Lover
June 21
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ?Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 22
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” -Confucius
June 23
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” -Steve Maraboli
June 24
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” -Zig Ziglar
June 25
"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment." -Bertrand Russell
June 26
"A man’s errors are his portals of discovery." -James Joyce
June 27
"The journey is the reward." -Chinese Proverb
June 28
"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses." -Marilyn vos Savant
June 29
"At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end." -Christine Mason Miller
June 30
“There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.” -Joyce Meyer
Motivational Weight Loss Quotes - July
July 1
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. - Isak Dinesen
July 2
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. - Martin Luther King, Jr
July 3
A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. - B. F. Skinner
July 4
Energy and persistence conquer all things.-Benjamin Franklin
July 5
"Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork." -English proverb
July 6
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” -Confucious
July 7
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill
July 8
“Avoiding failure is to avoid progress.” — Author Unknown
July 9
“I never dream of success. I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder
July 10
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” — John Maxwell
July 11
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” — Seth Godin
July 12
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale
July 13
“The grass is greener where you water it.” — Neil Barringham
July 14
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.” — Albert Einstein
July 15
“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.” — Author Unknown
July 16
“Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
July 17
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King
July 18
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Henry David Thoreau
July 19
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” — Coco Chanel
July 20
“Don’t Be Too Timid And Squeamish About Your Actions. All Life Is An Experiment. The More Experiments You Make The Better.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
July 21
“Happiness Is Not Something Readymade. It Comes From Your Own Actions.” -Dalai Lama
July 22
“The Only Place Where Success Come Before Work Is In The Dictionary.” - Vidal Sassoon
July 23
“Your Life Only Gets Better When You Get Better.” - Brian Tracy
July 24
“Everything You’ve Ever Wanted Is On The Other Side Of Fear.” - George Addair
July 25
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” — Andrew Carnegie
July 26
“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.” –Mark Victor Hansen
July 27
“Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.” — Mario Andretti
July 28
“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” — Earl Nightingale
July 29
“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.” — Elbert Hubbard
July 30
“One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.” — Karen Casey
July 31
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
Encouraging Weight Loss Quotes - August
August 1
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."-Benjamin Disraeli
August 2
"I still have a long way to go, but I’m already so far from where I used to be, and I’m proud of that." -Unknown
August 3
"Change is not a process for the impatient." -Barbara Reinhold
August 4
"The slower the change the longer it lasts." -BJ Fogg
August 5
"A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body..." - Proverb
August 6
"It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow." -Proverb
August 7
"If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy." -Proverb
August 8
"Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do." -Dhammapada
August 9
"A stumble may prevent a fall." -Proverb
August 10
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." -Tom Krause
August 11
"If you learn from a loss you have not lost." -Austin O’Malley
August 12
"Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed by the fire of enthusiasm." -Norman Vincent Peale
August 13
"Forget past mistakes and forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it." -William J. Durant
August 14
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Nelson Mandela
August 15
"The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose." -Ashley Hodgeson
August 16
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try." -Beverly Sills
August 17
"Never let success go to your head and never let failure go to your heart." -Ziad K. Abdelnour
August 18
"Stop beating yourself up. You are a work in progress; which means you get there a little at a time, not all at once." -unknown
August 19
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." -Jack Kornfield
August 20
"You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging." -Brené Brown
August 21
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." -Thich Nhat Hanh
August 22
"To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time." -Celestine Chua
August 23
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." -Stephen Covey
August 24
"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.-Robert H. Schuller
August 25
"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again." -Buddha
August 26
"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses." -Marilyn vos Savant
August 27
"Growth begins when we begin to accept our weaknesses."-Jean Vanier
August 28
"An obstacle may be either a stepping stone or a stumbling block." -Unknown
August 29
"It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward." -Proverb
August 30
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou
August 31
"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." -Proverb
Weight Loss Supportive Quotes - September
September 1
"Doing your best means never stop trying."-Unknown
September 2
"If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through." -Chinese Proverb
September 3
"I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better." -Henry David Thoreau
September 4
"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin." - Unknown
September 5
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." -Edward Everett Hale
September 6
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." -Viktor Frankl
September 7
"We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us." -Andrew Ryan
September 8
"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." -Deepak Chopra
September 9
"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse." -Unknown
September 10
"The grass is always greener where you water it." -Unknown
September 11
"You are your choices." -Seneca
September 12
"If you’re not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you’re determined to learn, no one can stop you." -Unknown
September 13
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." -Dale Carnegie
September 14
"Every new day is another chance to change your life." -Unknown
September 15
“You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story.” -Lisa Nichols
September 16
"If not now, when?" -Hillel the Elder
September 17
"Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling." -Deborah Day
September 18
"The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony and a sound mind in a sound body." -Jostein Gaarder
September 19
"Opportunities don't happen, you create them." -Chris Grosser
September 20
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
September 21
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas A. Edison
September 22
"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." -Booker T. Washington
September 23
"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." -Michael Jordan
September 24
“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.” -Joyce Meyer
September 25
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." -Bruce Lee
September 26
“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.” -Joyce Meyer
September 27
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." -Maya Angelou
September 28
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." -Zig Ziglar
September 29
"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." -Michael John Bobak
September 30
“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.” -Joyce Meyer
Inspiring Weight Loss Quotes - October
October 1
“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on” -Joyce Meyer
October 2
“You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both” -Joyce Meyer
October 3
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” -Deepak Chopra
October 4
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” -Deepak Chopra
October 5
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson
October 6
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." -Robert Collier
October 7
"Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem." -Anonymous
October 8
“Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.” -Joyce Meyer
October 9
“If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.” -Deepak Chopra
October 10
“The healthiest response to life is joy." - Deepak Chopra
October 11
“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.” -Joyce Meyer
October 12
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." -Oscar Wilde
October 13
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." -Proverbs
October 14
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." -Walt Disney
October 15
"If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got." -Anonymous
October 16
"Mistakes are proof you are trying." - Unknown
October 17
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” – Mary Shelley
October 18
“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.” -Leo Tolstoy
October 19
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” –Michael Jordan
October 20
“You win, not by defeating others, but by performing better than before.”
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October 21
"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow." ~ Doug Firebaugh
October 22
"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
October 23
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." ~ Peter Marshall
October 24
"Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more." ~ Louis L’Amour
October 25
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” - Vincent Van Gogh
October 26
“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.” - Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
October 27
"One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time." – John Wanamaker
October 28
"To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping." – Chinese Proverb
October 29
"Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!" – Judi Adler
October 30
“A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.” - Desiderius Erasmus
October 31
“Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going.” - Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Motivational Quotes for Weight Loss - November
November 1
"It is continual excess that causes trouble -- not occasional liberties." - Joyce Meyer
November 2
"Do not be deceived...A man reaps wha he sows." - Galatians 6:7
November 3
"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears." - Marcus Aurelius
November 4
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not fighting the old, but on building the new.” - Socrates
November 5
"Your focus determines your direction." - Unknown
November 6
"I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give-up." - C.S. Lewis
November 7
"Through discipline comes freedom." - Aristotle
November 9
Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time. Discipline is never easy, but it's always worth it in the end." - Joyce Meyer
November 10
“A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.” - Dalai Lama
November 11
“Self-discipline is self-caring.” - M. Scott Peck
November 12
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” - Zig Ziglar
November 13
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” - Confucius
November 14“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 15
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.” - Samuel Lover
November 16
“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.” - Steve Maraboli
November 17
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.” - Steve Maraboli
November 18
“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.” - Joyce Meyer
November 19
“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on” - Joyce Meyer
November 20
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” - Norman Vincent Peale
November 21
“It's always to soon to quit!” - Norman Vincent Peale
November 22
“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.” - Norman Vincent Peale
November 23
“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” - Zig Ziglar
November 24
“If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.” - Dale Carnegie
November 25
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 26
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 27
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 28
“If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.” - Michael Jordan
November 29
"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful." - Zig Ziglar
November 30
"In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!" - Zig Ziglar
Attitude is the Difference Between an Ordeal and an Adventure
Weight Loss Motivational Quotes - December
December 1
"Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period." - Lou Holtz
December 2
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. - Oscar Wilde
December 3
"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." - Michael John Bobak
December 7
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher
December 8
"A walk begins with one step and then another and another. No matter how long your journey seems, if you take enough steps in the right direction, you will eventually arrive at your desired destination... and truly have the life you've always wanted." - Joyce Meyer
December 9
"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 10
"At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets." - Steve Maraboli
December 11
"If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough." - Meister Eckhart
December 12
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Marcus Tulles Cicero
December 13
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
December 14
"The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." - Napoleon Hill
December 15
"We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." - Earl Nightingale
December 16
"Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." - Vaibhav Shah
December 17
"Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it." - Anonymous
December 18
"Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what." - Andy Warhol
December 19
"A life making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all." - George Bernard Shaw
December 20
"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." - Albert Einstein
December 21
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
December 22
"When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you." - Lolly Daskal
December 23
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
December 24
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
December 25
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Anonymous
December 26
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis
December 27
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." - Mark Caine
December 28
"People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." - Tony Robbins
December 29
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn
December 30
"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." - Denis Watiley
December 31
"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better." -Jim Rohn
Top 10 Jack La Lanne Quotes for Weight Watchers
1) "It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life – How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it."
2) "Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad – don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you."
3) "How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday. Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple."
4) "The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more."
5) "There are so many health food nuts out there that eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible."
6) "We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body."
7) "Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?"
8) "You need to make good health a hobby."
9) "Physical fitness takes commitment to exercise just as it requires good nutrition. But it doesn't have to be painful. Just the opposite: Vigorous exercise actually is stimulating. It boosts your energy levels, invigorates your mind, and just feels good afterward. The hardest part, of course, is getting started."
10) "Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke."
More Motivational Quotes from My Ever-growing Collection
"If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough." - Meister Eckhart
"Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding." — Yehuda Amichai
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." — Aristotle
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." — Mahatma Gandhi
"The only joy in the world is to begin." — Cesare Pavese
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis." — Margaret Bonanno
"The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight." — Epictetus
"Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life." — Marcus Aurelius
"I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully." — Anna Howard Shaw
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance." - Epicurus
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Praise God even when you don’t understand what He is doing." - Henry Jacobsen
"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good." - Maya Angelou, Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G.K. Chesterton
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude." - Jeff Miller
"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives." - John F. Kennedy
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." - Oprah Winfrey
"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!" -Henry Ward Beecher
"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses." - Alphonse Karr
"When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves—that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience." -N.T. Wright
"The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings." - Henry Ward Beecher
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder
"Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot." - Hansa Proverb
"Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing." - Dan Buettner, Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
"None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy." - Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus
"Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding." - Alice Walker
"I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High." - Psalms 7:17
"They do not love, that do not show their love." - William Shakespeare
"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
What is the best weight loss app?
I'm often asked about the best weight loss app. For many of us, weight loss apps - programs you can download to your phone or tablet - can be incredibly helpful. They make it easy to track the behaviors that will help you shed unwanted pounds and reach your goals.
Here are 4 of the best weight loss apps that I've used with good success:
- Weight Watchers
- Lose It!
- MyFitnessPal
- SparkPeople
More To Help You With Weight Loss Motivation
- Weight Loss Affirmation Cards
- Weekly Weight Loss Devotional: Courage & Connection
- You Are More Powerful Than You Think
- Weight Loss Devotional: Positive Self-Talk
- Lack of Motivation: 7 Causes & 7 Cures (nlpcenter.org)
Martha is the founder and main content writer for Simple-Nourished-Living.
A longtime lifetime WW at goal, she is committed to balancing her love of food and desire to stay slim while savoring life and helping others do the same.
She is the author of the Smart Start 28-Day Weight Loss Challenge.
A huge fan of the slow cooker and confessed cookbook addict, when she's not experimenting in the kitchen, you're likely to find Martha on her yoga mat.
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