50 Weight Loss Journey Quotes to Keep You Going

The weight loss journey is long. Words can carry you through the hard days. Here are 50 of the most honest and powerful quotes about the process.

On Starting

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started." — Mark Twain

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." — Zig Ziglar

"A year from now you'll wish you had started today." — Karen Lamb

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu

On Consistency

"It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every day, that's where transformation happens." — Jillian Michaels

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." — Robert Collier

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." — Aristotle

"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most."

On Setbacks

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

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." — Japanese Proverb

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — Henry Ford

"Every setback is a setup for a comeback. The question is what you do with it."

On the Body

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." — Jim Rohn

"To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." — Buddha

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity." — JFK

On Food and Discipline

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." — Hippocrates

"The groundwork for all happiness is good health." — Leigh Hunt

On Transformation

"The only person you should try to be better than is who you were yesterday."

"Small steps in the right direction can turn out to be the biggest step of your life."

"The body achieves what the mind believes."

"Don't wish for it. Work for it."

"Change happens at the speed of trust — and the first person you have to trust is yourself." — Stephen M.R. Covey