Do you need some yoga inspiration?
We have put together a selection of 112 inspirational yoga quotes to help you get back on the mat, no matter what your struggles are.
If you are wondering how to use these Yoga quotes, scroll through them to see what resonates most. Then, choose one or two that have a special meaning for you. You may find it useful to write it down in a journal, put it on sticky note on your bathroom mirror, or build it into your Yoga meditation. Does it make a difference to your inspiration and motivation? If not, try another quote.
Lets get straight into it.
112 Inspirational Yoga Quotes
- “Yoga. Quiet your mind. Free your body”
2. “Just Breathe.” – Every Yogi
3. “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” – Bhagavad Gita
4. “Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.” – Sri Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
5. “Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.” – Amit Ray
6. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
7. “Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.” ― Amit Ray
8. “Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.” – Alan Finger
9. “It is important not to abandon the practice of yoga because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.” – Ravi Ravindra
10 “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
11. “Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.” – T. K. V. Desikachar
12. “True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life.” – Aadil Palkhivala
13.“When in doubt, do Yoga” – Anonymous
14. “The pose begins when you want to leave it.” – B.K.S Iyengar
15. “Yoga is not for the flexible. It’s for the willing.” – Anonymous
16. “Yoga is a light, which once lit will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter your flame.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
17. “The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.” – Donna Farhi
18. “If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifier
19. Yoga does not transform the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees. – B.K.S. Iyengar
20. “Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way.” -Cybele Tomlinson
21. “Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.” – Erich Schiffman
22. “Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho
23. “When life is foggy, the path is unclear and the mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give you the peace. It has the power to resolve the unsolved equations of life.” – Amit Ray
24. “Yoga is a vision that excludes nothing from its practice” – Bhagavad Gita
25. “Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.” – Patanjali
26. “The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing Yoga are your body and your mind.” – Rodney Yee
27. “Never too late, never too bad and never too old or too sick to start from scratch once again.”- Bikram Choudhury
28. “Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self-control. Energy within and energy without.” – Ymber Delecto
29. “Yoga is an inner experience¬ – a workIN within a workOUT.” – A. G. Mohan
30. “Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.” – Swami Satchidananda
31. “There’s no pose that you can’t begin to break down and try to do.” – Jason Crandell
32. “Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.”- Bikram Choudhury
33. “Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.” – Amit Ray
34. “In truth, Yoga doesn’t take time it gives time” – Ganga White
35. “The life of a Yogi is to manifest a beautiful and wonderfully blissful tomorrow.” – Yogi Bhajan
36. “It’s not about being good at something. It’s about being good to yourself.” – Yogi Malik
37. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
38. “Yoga is the practice of tolerating the consequences of being yourself.” – Bhagavad Gita
39. “Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.” – Amit Ray
40. “The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.”- Bikram Choudhury
41. “To perform every action artfully is Yoga” – Swami Kripalu
42. “Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.”- Bikram Choudhury
43. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
44. “Yoga makes you harmonious with nature and teaches you to be joyfully curious about your inner world.” – Debasish Mridha
45. “Yoga is not about self-improvement, it’s about self-acceptance.” – Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
46. “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.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
47. “When the light comes from within, balance is inevitable.” – Amy Jirsa
48. “Yoga is a way of getting totally drunk – not on alcohol but on life. You know, they call it divine.” – Sadhguru
49. “The real pleasure, the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.” – Bikram Choudhury
50. “Yoga teaches is to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be changed.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
51. “One day or day one. You decide.” – Unknown
52. “I have often said that yoga is meditation and meditation is yoga.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
53. “The very heart of yoga practice is ‘abyhasa’ – steady effort in the direction you want to go.” – Sally Kempton
54. “Yoga means addition – the addition of energy, strength, and beauty to body, mind and soul.” – Amit Ray
55. “Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.” – Bikram Choudhury
56. “The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. Balance. Truly finding peace in your own skin.” – Rachel Brathen, Yoga Girl
57. Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.” – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
58. “Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.” -Yogi Bhajan
59. “Yoga philosophy believes that we each must face certain obstacles along our path.” – Kino McGregor
60. “Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.”- Mariel Hemingway
61. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
62. “Goodbye blue Monday.” – Kurt Vonnegut
63. “Calming the mind is yoga. Not just standing on the head.” – Swami Satchidananda
64. “I bend so that I don’t break.” ~ unknown
65. “Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn’t have any strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can’t practice.” – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
66. “Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility, and joy.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
67. “In our uniquely human capacity of connecting movement with breath and spiritual meaning, Yoga is born.” – Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
68. “Yoga is a balanced equation between stiffness and mobility, flexibility and strength.” – Jason Crandell
69. “Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.” – Bob Harper
70. “Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
71. “I have often said that yoga is meditation and meditation is yoga.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
72. “The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.” – Deepak Chopra
73. “The inspiration you seek is already inside you, be silent and listen.” – Rumi
74. “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.” – B.K.S Iyengar
75. “The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.” – Yogi Bhajan
76. “It doesn’t matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.” – Bryan Kest
77. “Yoga is clear, discerning, totally voluntary, dynamic participation in one’s life.” – Bhagavad Gita
78. “It’s not your history but your presence on the mat that matters.” – Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
79. “We all want happiness, and Yoga is the way for that needed happiness factor in life.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
80. “Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.” – Kevin Trudeau
81. “Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
82. “Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.”
83. “What you think, you become.” – Buddha
84. “Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.”- Patanjali
85. “Yoga is a powerful tool for liberating ourselves from unwanted, ingrained patterns.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
86. “Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.” –Jason Crandell
87. “My Yoga practice made me sure – made me know in my bones, that my body was a powerful, good and safe place to be.” – Amber Karnes
88. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
89. “Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside of you.” –Rumi
90. “A mind free from all disturbances is yoga.” – Patanjali
91. “I was looking for someone to inspire me, motivate me, support me, keep me focused… Someone who would love me, cherish me, make me happy, and I realized all along that I was looking for myself.” –Unknown
92. “Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.” – Debasish Mridha
93. “Practice and all is coming.” – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
94. “The quality of our breath expresses our inner feeling.” – T.K.V Desikachar
95. “You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.” – Yogi Bhajan
96. “The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.” – Jason Crandell
97. “Yoga is not about touching your toes, it is what you learn on the way down.” – Jigar Gor
98. “Whatever you do in life, Yoga show you how to do it better.” – Chuck Miller
99. “The best time to practice Yoga is when you don’t have the time for it” – Unknown
100. “The body benefits from movement and the mind benefits from stillness” – Sakyong Mipham
101. “Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” – Osho
102. “Remember it does not matter how deep into a posture you go. What does matter is who you are when you get there.” – Max Storm
103. “Yoga is essentially a practice for your soul, working through the medium of your body.” – Tara Fraser
104. “Here and now is where yoga begins” – The Yoga Sutras
105. “Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self-control. Energy within and energy without.” – Ymber Delecto
106. “Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.” – Linda Sparrowe
107. “Yoga is a light that will never dim, the better your practice, the brighter your flame.” – B.K.S Iyengar
108. “Yoga is your mind control capacity.” Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
109. “It’s not your history but you presence on your mat that matters.” – Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
110. “Change only happens in the present moment. The past is already done. The future is just energy and intention.” – Kino MacGregor
111. “Yoga is the practice of tolerating the consequences of being yourself.” – Bhagavad Gita
112. “The yoga pose you avoid the most is the one you need the most.” – Anonymous
We hope you have found a few gems under these inspirational yoga quotes – enough to give your practice a boost.
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