These are some of my favourite quotes that I have collected from other ED and diet sites over the years. For a much more extensive list of quotes, please visit BlueDragonfly.org. There you will find a very beautiful and classic site with the best quotes section I have ever seen on any ED Support site. some of these quotes were borrowed from there.
The real deprivation is in never being thin.
One decision may seem of little importance, but each decision helps to build character which is the sum total of decisions one makes for oneself. Collectively, the decisions of many people will determine the strength of world forces that will be set in motion.
EVERY effort on our part, however feeble it may seem, helps or hinders progress by just so much. One word, one deed, one minute, or one decision may seem inconsequential, yet every one of them counts.
Sow a thought, you reap an act, Sow an act, you reap a habit,
Sow a habit, you reap a character, Sow a character, you reap a destiny.
We are what we repeatedly do .
William Blake
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Ancient Proverb
For those who understand, no explanation is necessary; for those who don't, none will do.
Pain is only as real as you allow it to be.
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint
Yeats
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, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Know that the pain will pass... and when it passes... you will be stronger, happier, and more aware.
In life, you learn that obstacles really don't matter that much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do something bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible!
Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
There isn’t much thrill in success unless one has first been close to failure.
The secret of success is the consistency to pursue.
Success won’t just come to you - it has to be met at least half way.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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.
If I have the BELIEF that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the CAPACITY to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along... know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere.
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams!
There can be no reality to the things you want until they have structure within your mind first.
We become like what we love.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.
You never know what you can do without until you try.
The best is yet to be.
Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.
Don't give up 5 minutes before the miracle!
It doesn't matter how slowly you go...as long as you don't stop.
I'm not there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
The beginning is always today.
Avoid carefully the first ill or mischief, for that will breed a hundred more.
Old habits die hard - but they MUST DIE!
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arnold Bennett
The difference between want and need is self control.
Seize the very first opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience, in the direction of the habits you aspire to attain.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
(I saw the following quote in the sig of someone on a pro forum. I hope I'm not stealing it, but it inspired the crap out of me so I put it here. Hope nobody minds.)
Willpower is having the strength to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
When it comes to losing weight, those who can, do; those that can't, make excuses.
I strive daily to remember that the man I love may one day love me when I'm thin!
Of course it's hard. If it was easy then everybody would do it. Its the hard that makes it great.
Don't eat. If you want to see food, look in the mirror at your thighs.
I want to be the smallest I can possibly be...when I see bone, that's the day I will finally feel free...
An imperfect body reflects an imperfect person.
Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.
An ordinary girl, an ordinary waist – but ordinary's just not good enough today.
Quod Me Netruit Me Destruit...
Happy or sad, rich or poor, it's better being thin.
Craving is only a feeling.
Thin has a taste all its own.
Calories can't make you happy.
If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.
Every time you say "No thank you," to food, you say, "Yes Please!" to thin.
Food is a hindrance to your progress.
Don't eat anything today (that you'll regret tomorrow).
Nothing is so bad that not eating won't cure.
You are what you eat.
Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket.
Time spent wasting is not wasted time.
You have such a pretty face, why don't you try dieting?
Don't give up what you want most for what you want at the moment.
People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.
Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!
Not afraid of heights - afraid of widths.
I might as well exercise; I'm in a bad mood anyway!
I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I am doing.
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles
When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad.
Janette Barber
My advice if you insist on slimming: eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.
Harry Secombe
The commonest form of malnutrition in the western world is obesity.
Mervyn Deitel
It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.
Hugh Allen
We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson, 1825
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."
P.G. Wodehouse
In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.
Stephen Phillips
I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.
Paula Poundstone
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society
Obesity is really widespread.
Joseph O. Kern II
Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child
I'm allergic to food. Every time I eat, it breaks out into fat.
Jennifer Greene Duncan
I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.
Jane Wagner
(I just had to put this one in :)
Where do you go to get anorexia?
Shelley Winters
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
Ed Bluestone
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
Epictetus (50 AD - 138 AD)
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Thomas Tusser, 1524
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
Proverb
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
English Proverb
