I THOUGHT I WOULD START A THREAD WITH INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES. I KNOW THERE ARE TIMES WHEN ALOT OF US MAY FEEL A BIT DOWN OR DISCOURAGED, SO MAYBE COMING TO THIS THREAD AND READING A DIFFERENT QUOTES MAY HELP THOSE OF US THAT MAY JUST BE FEELING DOWN IN THE DUMPS. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE ANY THOUGHTS ON WHAT THESE QUOTES MAY MEAN TO YOU.

HERE IT GOES:

"YOU MUST BEGIN TO THINK OF YOURSELF AS BECOMING THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BE."- DAVID VISCOTT

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

~henry ford

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. "

Henry David Thoreau

...one we've all heard before...

"Nothing tastes as good as being thin/healthy feels"!!

I am a quote junkie!! LOL

"You always pass failure on the way to success." - Mickey Rooney

"We all haev a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes." - Randy Milholland

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another w/no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill

Argue your limitations and sure enough, they're yours (Anon?)

and (a funny but true one)

Gluttony is not a secret vice - Orson Welles

"Every adversity, every heartache, every failure, bears with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill

My favorite quote and book

Not exactly quotes, but these are things I tell myself from time to time...

"one bite is the same as twenty"

"I'll be thinner tomorrow than I am today"

This one is my favorite

MIND OVER MATTER IF YOU DON'T MIND IT DON'T MATTER!!!!

Here's one I try to live by---

There are 3 things we are always accountable for: our actions, our attitudes and our choices.

My favorite is on my signature, as well as on my wall in my office: "It is never too late to be who you might have been"!!

Be careful of your words, for words become thoughts.

Be careful of your thoughts, for thoughts become actions.

Be careful of your actions, for actions become habits.

Be careful of your habits, for habits become character.

Be careful of your character, for character determines destiny.

"THE ONLY JOURNEY IS THE JOURNEY WITHIN"

RAINER MARIA RILKE

"End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you!' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform." -- Mark Victor Hansen

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there." -- Venus Williams

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." -- William Durant

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." -- Pope John XXIII

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your oldnonsense." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." -- Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915"

What you did in the past, though it might have made you the person you are today, has absolutely no bearing on what you do in the future."

"You didn't get out of shape and unhealthy overnight, and you won't get fit and healthy overnight - despite what the infomercials tell you"

"A real transformation begins on the inside, not in a bottle or a package. The magic is sitting inside you, just waiting to be let out. The transformation is a learning process, one that comes from realizing you control your destiny, and that you can accomplish whatever you decide you're going to accomplish."

"Make the decision, then do something - no matter how small - toward accomplishing what you want."

And my favorite:

"I've come too far to take orders from a cookie!" -???:clap2:

I don't any inspirational quotes, but I made affirmations that I read to myself every day and it makes me feel like a better person for doing it...

here they are....

I will be confident and elated when I sing in front of people.

I am safe.

I am surrounded by people who love and appreciate me.

I am worthy of everything.

I care for myself and I am not selfish for putting myself first.

I am not going to be tempted by anything.

I am a star.

I make significant contributions wherever I go.

I am ready to perform at my highest level.

I am losing the weight and becoming healthy.

I deserve to succeed in all that I do.

I can let go and be myself without fear of being myself.

I am happy with my life and my life is good.

These affirmations are working and working fast!

I am working hard at succeeding and it’s paying off!

I am living my dreams every day.