These weight quotes will inspire you. Weight, the amount that something weighs or a body’s relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging weight quotes, weight sayings, and weight proverbs.
Best Weight Quotes
- “Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.” ~ Phil McGraw
- “Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.” ~ Phil McGraw , Weight quotes life
- “No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “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 Raid really doesn’t taste that bad.” ~ Janette Barber
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“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.” ~ Orson Welles
- “You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.” ~ David Viscott
- “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” ~ Mark Twain
- “It’s okay to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.” ~ Roseanne Barr
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“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- “If you’re not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.” ~ Julius Erving
- “Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.” ~ Cathy Hopkins
- “Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.” ~ Totie Fields
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“In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
- “The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It’s not a diet. It’s a lifestyle.” ~ Jessica Simpson
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“The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.” ~ Hermione Gingold
- “The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.” ~ Margaret Cho
- “When we lose twenty pounds… we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.” ~ Woody Allen , Lose weight quotes
- “My wife is a light eater. As soon as it’s light, she starts to eat.” ~ Henny Youngman
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“The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.” ~ Alan Cohen
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~ Jim Ryun
- “I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: “If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight.” I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “That’s life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.” ~ Bob Hope
- “We never repent of having eaten too little.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner” ~ Henry Sambrooke Leigh
- “Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.” ~ Mae West
- “I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.” ~ Dolly Parton
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“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” ~ Barbara Johnson
- “The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.” ~ Andy Rooney
- “I’ve decided that perhaps I’m bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.” ~ Paula Poundstone
- “I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “No carbs after lunch is one of the hardest (rules) to follow. But if you follow this rule YOU WILL lose weight” ~ Bob Harper
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“I’m not overweight. I’m just nine inches too short.” ~ Shelley Winters
- “In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature’s eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.” ~ Camille Paglia
- “When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself — but never quite believing it because you don’t sense yourself directly.” ~ Geneen Roth”I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!” ~ Tina Fey
- “Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of the women they’re married to.” ~ Rita Rudner , Gaining weight quotes
- “I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn’t recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
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“A small waist makes you tire easily.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.” ~ Wendy Wasserstein
- “I tried to be really healthy and eat whole and organic as much as possible. I think that’s the key to avoiding crazy weight gain.” ~ Molly Sims
- “As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it’s the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.” ~ Scott Porter
- “Here’s how men think. Sex, work – and those are reversible, depending on age – sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here’s how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.” ~ Carrie Fisher
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“A methodology’s weight is a product of its size and ceremony.” ~ Jim Highsmith
- “I truly believe a woman’s weight is a political issue, and if one young woman out there can see me and not feel crummy about herself, that’s a good thing.” ~ Janeane Garofalo
- “And as particles are living digital elements, moving on their own according to the various attributes (such as weight, speed, shape) given to them by the animator, we don’t know what the visual result will be until everything is completed. This result can often be unsatisfying, obliging us to repeat the process all over again, with new features.” ~ Martine Epoque
- “It’s remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that’s so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It’s enormously powerful.” ~ Josh Fox
- “I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‘n’ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can’t stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets – many are fat themselves.” ~ John A. McDougall
- “If you set goals for yourself, and you’re like a lot of other people, you probably realize it’s not that your goals are physically impossible that’s keeping you from achieving them; it’s that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It’s physically possible to lose weight. It’s physically possible to exercise more.” ~ Daniel Goldstein
- “The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- “If only I had known a year ago what I’d be facing now. Until last year I lived with the innocent arrogance that my life was a simple product of effort, will, and design. But now I am a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle. Perhaps it is best we cannot see into our futures.” ~ Martha Manning
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“I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.” ~ Josh Peck
- “Mayweather likes to say he is better than Sugar Ray Robinson, but I think it is more important for him to keep the zero on his record than it is to fight Manny. We hope the opportunity comes for a fight with Mayweather, but Manny is going to continue to fight, even if it means moving up in weight to go after nine titles.” ~ Freddie Roach
- “White people don’t have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it’s really more so true for white men because even just being a woman, you sort of have to walk around other people’s assumptions of you and it’s so exhausting and there’s a sense, especially among young people of wanting to just live your life, not having to wear the weight of that pressure – pressure that people of color feel, that gay people of color feel, that women of color feel.” ~ Justin Simien
- “I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people’s work. It’s important for anyone who wants to make films for a living, but I think perhaps it has an even greater weight for female filmmakers since they represent a much smaller percentage of the population. Their voices are fewer so they must be even stronger.” ~ Megan Griffiths
- “I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you’re always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.” ~ Damian Kulash
- “My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.” ~ Jacqueline Bisset
