Whether you want to lose a little bit of weight or a lot of weight, it is not easy. What you think is powerful, and your inner dialogue matters. When you have a positive mindset and are happy, you tend to make healthy decisions, including those that impact your weight loss endeavor, like getting enough sleep, avoiding junk food, eating healthy, taking care of your body and moving more.
Sometimes the voice in your head that is telling you to give up is louder than the one encouraging you to keep going. Whenever you feel like giving up, read one of these inspiring quotes. Print them out and leave them in visible locations. These inspirational quotes will help keep you motivated to lose weight.
20 Inspiring Weight Loss Quotes
“The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil
“Happiness is the highest form of health.” Dalai Lama
“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” – Joyce Meyer
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates
“The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.” – Julia Child
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” – Unknown
“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
“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.” – William Shakespeare
“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.” – Richard Bach
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“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
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn