Inspirational Weight Quotes

• 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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• All great achievements require time.

  Maya Angelou

  Success, Encouraging, Patience

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 27, 2011

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

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• 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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• You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Profiles in Courageous Manhood”, Albury Pub

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.

  Jill Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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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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• Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Self Improvement, Drink

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.126, Applewood Books

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• The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

  Socrates

  Funny Inspirational, Healing, Health

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers

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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

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• A goal without a plan is just a wish.

  Larry Elder

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

  Drew Carey

  Food, Weight Loss, Punishment

  FaceBook post by Drew Carey from Feb 27, 2013

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Weight Loss, Dieting

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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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• 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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• Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Motivational, Food

  Comfort Me with Apples Ch. 15

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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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• 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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• 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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