Top 214 Quotes & Sayings by Jillian Michaels
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Jillian Michaels.
Last updated on September 7, 2024.
I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.
My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.
For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.
It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.
Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.
People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.
I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.
When you eat a piece of white bread, think of it as putting a tissue on a fire. But if you eat something that has wholegrains, whether it's a little bit of oatmeal, a little bit of protein, it's like putting a log on the fire.
I'm trying to get into the best shape of my life for 40.
I will teach people not only how to identify their goals and dreams, but subsequently give them the tools to make those dreams a reality.
The gay thing has always been hard for me.
I was an overweight kid, and my father struggled with his weight, too. We would go for a ride on his motorcycle on Sunday morning to get doughnuts, to make pizza together, or go get ice cream. I quickly learned that food equalled love and attention.
I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.
If I was ashamed of who I am, I would be in the closet.
I don't lock into one type of exercise.
Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.
You just are born the way that you're born.
People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it - they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it - and that's exactly what my 'Maximize Your Life' show will do.
Stop turning to fad diets and use common sense.
The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.
I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.
I'm unbelievably superstitious.
I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better.
Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don't dwell on it; don't beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.
Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist.
The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.
In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.
The key is to master a few simple ways to exercise that will burn the most calories in the least time. And you also need to figure out how can you eat more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff without feeling deprived so your diet regimen feels manageable.
People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business.
When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.
It's important in life to celebrate any victory in life.
Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.
Let's just say I believe in healthy love.
My mom gave me enough self-worth to carry me through difficult experiences. She was very loving and accepting. She was like, 'Whelp, you're gay? OK, cool.'
You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.
I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.
The more you change and stress the body the quicker it's going to adapt and change.
I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.
I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.
I was 175 pounds at 13 years old and 5 feet tall.
Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.
If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.
Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.
I'm done with 'Biggest Loser.'
I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.
We can't sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.
People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.
You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.
My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.
I'm on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool.
Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.
I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!
I have this intrinsic sense that everything will be okay.
You can dramatically affect the expression of your metabolism and your biochemistry by the way you eat and the way you live.
The results I've seen with Bodyshred have been far superior to any program that I've ever created.
It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.
We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
I change the workout every month, so you never adapt and never plateau.
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