Health isn’t just about working out and eating right, it’s also about feeling good about yourself, feeling motivated, and being happy. But we all get those days when we aren’t even motivated to get out of bed or leave the house when we’re feeling down. So what can make us feel better? Jen from MsMorphosis is back with us today to help us get that good feeling back with 30 Motivational Quotes for When You’re Feeling Down…
HOW TO GET BACK UP WHEN YOU’RE FEELING DOWN…
1. STEVEN FURTICK…
“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlights reel”
2. MARIA ROBINSON…
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
3. HOWARD THURMAN…
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
4. ROLLO MAY…
“It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.”
5. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE…
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
6. WAYNE DYER…
“How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.”
7. ROBERT FROST…
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
8. STEVE JOBS…
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
9. JIM ROHN…
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
10. MARILYN MONROE…
“If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have gotten anywhere.”
11. VINCE LOMBARDI…
“Confidence is contagious.”
12. MIKE DITKA…
“Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.”
13. MAYA ANGELOU…
“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘Well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
14. ALBERT EINSTEIN…
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
15. LAO TZU…
“There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard. There is a time to be vigorous and a time to be gentle. There is a time to gather and a time to release. Can you see things as they are And let them be all on their own?”
16. ERICA JONG…
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
17. MAYA ANGELOU…
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
18. SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE…
“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.”
19. ERICA JONG…
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
20. RALPH WALDO EMERSON…
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
21. QUEEN ELIZABETH II…
“The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.”
22. ALBERT EINSTEIN…
“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
23. MAYA ANGELOU…
“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”
24. VINCE LOMBARDI…
“It’s easy to have faith in yourself and discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.”
25. VICTOR FRANKL…
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
26. AYN RAND…
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
27. ERICA JONG…
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
28. DENIS WAITLEY…
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
29. RALPH WALDO EMERSON…
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
30. ERICA JONG…
“The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.”
Sometimes we just need a little motivation to move us, to get us going when we’refeeling down. I really love these motivational quotes and how they speak the truth about life and how at times we are our own worst enemy when we put ourselves down, compare our lives to others, or make excuses to not do better and make that bad day even worse when we’re feeling down. Be the good feeling you need, respect yourself, and be inspired with these wonderful motivational quotes from inspiring people like Steve Jobs, Maya Angelou, and Albert Einstein who pushed the limit and made their own path in life.
