Are you a morning person? Ya! I can say. But how come…Because my parents, teachers, and textbooks all had one “quote in Common”: “Early to Bed and Early Rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.
Then comes “Barking dog seldom bites”. This makes me muster up enough courage to walk through any lane full of dogs. “Every cloud has a silver lining” never lets me feel disappointed. I mean, the list of the quotes and number of inspirations we draw from them are endless. What if you learn one each day from these yoga quotes and try to inculcate in your life. This would certainly be a life changer.
Motivational Yoga Quotes, on one hand, are inspiring, motivating and scintillating then…
…sometimes they mirror your myth about yoga, yoga postures, and even everyday life. They, do explain a mindset when you’re on or off your yoga mat.
“Although yoga has its origins in ancient India, its methods and purposes are universal, relying not on cultural background, faith or deity, but simply on the individual. Yoga has become important in the lives of many contemporary Westerners, sometimes as a way of improving the health and fitness of the body, but also as a means of personal and spiritual development.” Tara Fraser
Possibly, what can amaze you most is the variety. They’re as simple as- “Just Breath” Or
An illustrative like this one- “Anyone can practice. A young man can practice. The old man can practice. A very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn’t have strength can practice. Except for lazy people; lazy people can’t practice Ashtanga yoga.”
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Yogis, following are the quotes from the most renowned Yoga masters, Saints, and philosophers on philosophy, mindfulness, and meditation, quotes on Yoga as a way of life and everything else in Yoga-family … including fun and amusements.
- “Yoga is the journey of the Self, to the Self, through the Self.” The Bhagavad Gita
- “Yoga is 99% Practice & 1% theory.” Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
- “Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.” K.S. Iyengar
- “In truth, Yoga doesn’t take time – it gives time.” Ganga White
- “Surrender to Yoga, for where is the conflict when the truth is known.” Sri T.Krishnamacharya
- “The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.” Yogi Bhajan
- “Just breathe.”
- “Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.”
- “Yoga is not about touching your toes, it’s about what you learn on the way down.” Judith Lasate
- “Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.” Jim Rohn
Yoga Quotes from T.Krishnamacharya
- “Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.”
- “Where is the delusion when the truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.”
- “Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.”
- “Teach what is inside you, not as it applies to you, to yourself, but as it applies to the other”
- “In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.”
- “Meditation results in marvels.”
- “Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.”
- “Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt Dharana and dhyana [deeper meditation] with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.”
Quotes On Yoga by Sri.K.Pattabhi Jois
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- “Practice and all is coming.”
- “If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter – if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.”
- “Anyone can practice. The young man can practice. An old man can practice. The very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn’t have strength can practice. Except for lazy people; lazy people can’t practice Ashtanga yoga.”
- “Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.”
- “In Order to be effective, the truth must penetrate like an arrow and that is likely to hurt.”
- “Body is not stiff, the mind is stiff.”
- “The Ashtanga yoga system should never be confused with “power yoga” or any whimsical creation which goes against the tradition of the many types of yoga Shastras (scriptures). It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant bodybuilding.”
Motivational Yoga Quotes from Sri.B.K.S.Iyengar
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- “My body is my temple and asanas are my prayers.”
- “Action is a movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.”
- “Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.”
- “Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”
- “It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.”
- “Breath is the king of mind.”
- “Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.”
- “Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.”
- “Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.”
- “There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.”
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Yoga Quotes by T.K.V.Desikachar
- “The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.”
- “The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.”
- “Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.”
- “The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.”
- “Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.”
- “When we follow the breath, the mind will be drawn into the activities of the breath. In this way, pranayama prepares us for the stillness of meditation.”
- “In sum, Patanjali suggests that we channel our curiosity and our mental powers into areas of fruitful interest as a means of calming the mind.”
- To live the life of Yoga, to repeat, is about a faith that continuously guides the teacher toward practices leading to the harmony of body, mind, and spirit.”
- “Another meaning of the word yoga is “to tie the strands of the mind together.”
- “The first step is to recognize that certain tendencies of our mind are responsible for producing painful effects. If these tendencies are not curtailed, we may reach a point of no return.”
- “The breath relates directly to the mind and to our prana, but we should not, therefore, imagine that as we inhale, prana simply flows into us. This is not the case. Prana enters the body at the moment when there is a positive change in the mind.”
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More Yoga quotes from the Bhagavad Gita
- “Yoga is a skill in action.” The Bhagavad Gita
- “The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad and is focused on the actions alone.” The Bhagavad Gita
Motivational Yoga Quotes from Patanjali Yoga Sutra
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- “Yoga is the restraining of the operations of mind born of conditioning.” Patanjali Yoga Sutras 1:2
- “One becomes firmly established in practice only after attending to it for a long time, without interruption and with an attitude of devotion.” I.14
- “Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.” 1.33
- “Ignorance [avidya] is the root element of all of the other afflictions. Whether it is like or dislike and such, or deep sleep, weakness, dissoluteness or loftiness – no matter what type – all rise out of ignorance.” 2:4
- “With non-acceptance of unnecessary things, the knowledge emerges of what I was, what I have become, and what I will be.” 2:39
- “All of the fruits of the [above-mentioned] yogic powers can be obstacles to samadhi. They will definitely create more karma if used recklessly.” 3:38
- “The posture becomes perfect when the effort of achieving it vanishes.” Yogabhashya
Quotes by Swami Satchidananda
- “Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.”
- “Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.”
- “Yoga believes in transforming the individuals before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within.”
- “Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head.”
Quotes from Hatha Yoga Pradipika
- “When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves a long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.”
- “Whether young or old, very old, sick or feeble, one can attain perfection in all the yogas by practicing.”
- “Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.”
Quotes on Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
- “Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”
- “…there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean …”
- “…it is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen.”
- “He who does so, says the Gita, cannot be a Yogi: He who fasts, he who keeps awake, he who sleeps much, he who works too much, he who does no work, none of these can be a Yogi (Gita, VI, 16).”
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Motivational Yoga Quotes by other Yoga Teachers
- “True Yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not be performed; yoga is to be lived.” Aadil Palkhivala
- “The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.” Rodney Yee
- “Let your practice be a celebration of life.” Seido lee deBarros
- “Remember, it doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go – what does matter is who you are when you get there.” Max Strom
- “For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself.” ~ Mary Glover
- ”Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.” Jason Crandell
- “You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.” ~ Sharon Gannon
- “To perform every action artfully is Yoga.” Swami Kripalu
- “Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly or resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don’t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.” Donna Farhi
- “Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.” Erich Schiffmann
- “Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.” Sting
- “If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” Shunryu Suzuki
- “The very heart of yoga practice is ‘abyhasa’ – steady effort in the direction you want to go.” Sally Kempton
- “Yoga means addition – the addition of energy, strength, and beauty to body, mind, and soul.” Amit Ray
- When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.” Petri Räisänen
- “That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.” Peace Pilgrim
- “Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self-control. The energy within and energy without.” Ymber Delecto
- “Yoga is a dance between control and surrender — between pushing and letting go — and when to push and to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your well-being.” Joel Kramer
- “The pose begins when you want to get out of it.” Baron Baptiste
- “Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted — in body, mind, and heart — and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow — or we begin to flow more in our lives.” Cybele Tomlinson
- “Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.” Mariel Hemingway
On Yoga Today
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- “Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more.” Patricia Walden
- “A lot of exercises is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you’re aware in anything you do – and it doesn’t have to be yoga – it changes you. Being present changes you.” Mariel Hemingway
- “Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released.” The Quote Garden
- “A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.” T. Guillemets
- “Yoga is not just a repetition of a few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”Amit Ray
- “Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.” Kevin Trudeau
- “Yoga is not about tightening your ass. It’s about getting your head out of it.” Eric Paskel
- “Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down.” Jigar Gor
- “All kidding aside, if everyone did yoga, we would have world peace.” Rory Freedman
- . “Move your joints every day. You have to find your own tricks. Bury your mind deep in your heart, and watch the body move by itself.” — Sri Dharma Mittra
- “The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.” — Jason Crandell
- The time we spend on the mat is love in action” — Rolf Gates
- “The yoga pose you avoid the most you need the most.” — Anonymous
- “Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in. And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable; to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are.” — Rolf Gates
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