I’m a huge fan of quotes!  I always look to quotes for motivation when I’m having a hard time getting myself ready to workout or when I’m tempted to go get a large pepperoni and mushroom pizza at Round Table.

The inspirational perspective they bring can lift me out of my funk and motivate me to keep moving in the right direction.

My main goal for this post is to build a collection of everybody’s favorite motivational quotes that inspire success, fitness, energy, weight loss, goal achievement, nutrition, health…anything positive that comes to mind!  Please share as many as you would like…

Let’s make this a contest!  I will give the person who I think gives the best quote that inspires success and I haven’t heard a bunch of times will win a complimentary copy of my not yet released DVD, Secrets of the Foam Roller.  This baby hasn’t been released yet and has a value of at least $27.

Here are some examples of my favorite quotes:

“Do or do not.  There is no try.” – Yoda

“It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” – Muhammad Ali

“Your attitude determines you altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

“If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you are probably right.” – Henry Ford

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.” - Joan Welsh

“Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.” – Hippocrates

“Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.” – Earl of Derby

“Processed foods not only extend the shelf life, but they extend the waistline as well.” – Karen Sessions

“If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow.” – Unknown

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” - Walt Disney

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ” - Leonardo da Vinci

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. ” - Will Smith