150+ MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES ON YOGA

Yoga is the oldest exercise known to human being which is originated from the Vedas, That’s why we have brought this list of motivational quotes on Yoga. Yoga consists of different types of asana which help to improve different types of body function some of the asanas are based on the animal and their posture as you will see further in the following motivational quotes for Yoga. A reason behind the significance of Yoga is that it provides surety to a healthy and peaceful life like nothing else, says one of the best motivational quotes on yoga. While reading these motivational quotes on yoga, you can realize how important a role it can play in our life if followed properly.  Once you come into the habit of doing yoga, you can easily fight innumerable disease as it increases your immunity like said in these motivational quotes for yoga.

Practicing Yoga creates an amazing balance between an individual’s mind, body, and soul. Many motivational quotes on yoga have proved that it is the only way for fitness which gives you immense peace and joy. It drastically impacts your endurance and flexibility which ultimately benefits your physique enormously. Apart from this, yoga helps in weight management and body toning as said in the following motivational quotes on yoga.

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Here is the collection of best motivational quotes on yoga which can inculcate awareness in you for starting it,

“Yoga is a light, which once lit will never dim. The better you practice, the brighter the flame.”  -B.K.S. Iyengar

“Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.” -Ramdev Baba

“Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, a science of youthfulness, a science of integrating body, mind, and soul.” -Amit Ray

“Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility, and joy.”  -B.K.S. Iyengar

“The real yoga begins when you manage to step out of your comfort zone!”

“Yoga is 99 percent practice and one percent theory.” -Sri Pattabhi Jois

“I meditate so that I can sit and inundate my entire being with the omnipotent power of peace.” -Sri Chinmoy

“Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.” -Cyndi Lee

“There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.” -Kathryn Budig

“The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.” -T.K.V. Desikachar

“Peace cannot be kept by force it can be achieved by understanding.”  -Albert Einstein

“Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.” -Best Yoga Quotes Sayings

“Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.” -Jason Crandell

“Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.” -Jawaharlal Nehru

“Chasing after the world brings chaos. Allowing it all to come to me, brings peace.” -Zen Gatha

“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

“Within you, there is stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself.” -Hermann Hesse

“Yoga is a way of getting totally drunk – not on alcohol but on Life. You know, they call it divine.” -Sadhguru 

“Yoga always tries to transform the body, because if the body transforms, the mind will mature by itself.” -Sadhguru

“In yoga, you never chase an experience – you only prepare for it.” -Sadhguru Quotes

“If every eight-year-old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.” -Dali Lama

“Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.” -Russell Simmons

“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.” -B.K.S Iyengar

“Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.” -Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

“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

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” -M.K. Gandhi

“Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength.” -Yogi Bhajan

“I close my eyes in order to see.” -Paul Gauguin

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -M.K.Gandhi

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” -M.K.Gandhi

“The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you…. If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.” -Annie Wood Besant

“In stillness all conflict must end.” -Phillip Urso

“There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.” -Kathryn Budig

“True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is–including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.” -Craig Hamilton

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it.  It just blooms.” -Zen Shin

“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 – 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. 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

“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 exercise 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 repetition of 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

“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 health and fitness of the body, but also as a means of personal and spiritual development.” -Tara Fraser

“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

“Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.” -Bob Harper

“Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.” -Debasish Mridha

“Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.” -Amit Ray

“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer’s own form.” -Patañjali

“A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.” -T. Guillemets

“Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception.” -Debasish Mridha

“Yoga is the unifying art of transforming dharma into action, be it through inspired thought, properly nurturing our children, a painting, a kindness or an act of peace that forever moves humanity forward.” -Micheline Berry

“Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.” -Amit Ray

“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.” -Patañjali

“Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and 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 not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.” -Debasish Mridha

“Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.” -Amit Ray

“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

“Yoga reveals to you the beauty of mindfulness and takes you into the essence of an endless present moment.” -Debasish Mridha

“Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.” -Amit Ray

“To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value.” -Prem Prakash

“For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.” -T. Guillemets

“That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.” -Allan Lokos

“Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport” -Matt Haig

“You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga.” -Debasish Mridha

“Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won’t feel like your first.” -Gina Greenlee

“Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.” -Ravi Ravindra

“The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.” -Amit Ray

“Why [do]they always look so serious in Yoga? [When] you make [a]serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with the mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

“Yoga makes you harmonious with nature and teaches you to be joyfully curious about your inner world.” -Debasish Mridha

“Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but this is only one type of Yoga, called “Hatha-Yoga”. In reality, Yoga is an umbrella term for various physical and mental exercises that lead to the overall well-being of a person.” -Abhijit Naskar

“Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.” -Amit Ray

“Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.” -Osho

“Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.” -Hatha Yoga Pradipika

“The Yogic system does not talk about God. It does not talk about the soul or heaven. Such talk invariably makes people hallucinatory. Yoga talks only about the barriers that you have set up because this resistance is all that needs to be attended to. The creator is not looking for your attention. The ropes that bind you and the walls that block you- these are one hundred percent of your making. And these are all you need to unknot and dismantle. You have no work with existence. You only have work with the existence that you created.” -Sadhguru

“Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without.” -Ymber Delecto

“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.” -Roman Payne

“Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.” -Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

“Yoga is the science of reality.” -Sushil Singh

“Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.” -Baxter Bell

“Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is.” -Sunday Adelaja

“All kidding aside, if everyone did yoga, we would have world peace.” -Rory Freedman

“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

“We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all.” -Amit Ray

“You have to stretch your soul to find your potential strength.” -Lailah Gifty Akita

 “Yoga is really trying to liberate us from shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing – I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.” -Rodney Yee

“That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.” -Allan Lokos

“Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool.” -Victoria Moran

“Depending on their psychic makeup, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations, it is better to undertake the practice of yoga–whether physical yoga or meditation–with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone.” -Ravi Ravindra

“Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief.” -Amit Ray

“Each one of you carries the potential to blossom like flowers. When you blossom, petals of your mind open and the fragrance spread far and near.” -Banani Ray

“Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union – the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.” -B.K.S. Iyengar

“The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others.” -Amit Ray

“If the human mind continues to evolve, enlarge, and expand, so that we are able to recognize our kinship with the creations around us, so that we are able to grasp our oneness with the cosmos, and so that we merge in yoga with the Divine, the long cosmic cycle will disclose its cryptic secret, and the long saga of billions of years of evolution will display its profound significance.” -Roy J. Mathew

“Yoga not only allows you to learn to control your breathing, but it ultimately enhances your abilities to harmonize your thoughts and enhances your inner beauty.” -Debasish Mridha

 “Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well-being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well-being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.” -Sharon Gannon

“Breath is your link to life; the direct connection to your spirit.” -Dashama Konah Gordon

“It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It’s simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.” -Erich Schiffman

“Jonathan’s voice was quiet now. “Thank you for sharing this evening with me. In yoga, we say ‘Namaste,’ which means ‘I bow to the divine in you.'” He bowed his dork-knobbed head and said, “Namaste.” We bowed back and mumbled, “Namaste.” On my tongue, the new word felt as though it contained its own foreign spice.” -Claire Dederer

“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

“Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to the uneducated, medicine to the sick, and trees and cleanliness to the environment.” -Amit Ray

“The more you know, the more you don’t know,” the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you’ll realize that there’s an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.” -Mark Stephens

“To find inner bliss and happiness through yoga, learn to accept things as they are by changing your thoughts.” -Debasish Mridha

“Drinking tea is as sacred as doing yoga. Sleeping silently, relaxed, is as sacred as prayer. Looking at a tree, talking to a friend, walking early in the morning, working in the factory or in the office, is as holy as anything else. This is the understanding that is needed for Tao to happen.” -Osho

“Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.” -B.K.S. Iyengar

“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

“Yoga is a journey of the soul through the body that creates a harmony among nature, mind, and body.” -Debasish Mridha

“Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.” -Kripalvanandji

“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.” -Rumi

“The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.” -A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 “Keep flowing even its good or bad. Stilness is ultimate result of flow, path of yoga is to keep flowing.” -Yogi Vini

“The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren’t enough.” -Amy Weintraub

“With yoga, you go back to your source to bloom again with joy and inner peace.” -Debasish Mridha

 “I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam – you’re a guru, ready for your groupies.” -Edward Vilga

 “Yoga is not just repetition of few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.” -Amit Ray

These are some of the best anonymous motivational quotes,

“Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.”

“The wise yogi knows that the process itself is a destination. That life itself-perhaps this very moment- is the ultimate reward.”

“Just know what is happening in your mind: not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it and be empty.”

“Yoga Meditation‬ is possible for anybody who really wants it. ‪Yoga‬ is universal.”

“Living in the present moment activates courage.”

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” -Socrates

“Find Happiness within nature and yourself. For a healthy and peaceful life, Make Yoga a Habit!” 

“Yoga Helps You in Maintaining Balance in Life.”

“The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.”

“I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary.”

“Yoga is the journey of the self through the self to the self.”

“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person.”

“Yoga Adds Years to your Life and Life to your Years.”

“Start Doing Yoga Every Day And Be The Best Version Of You.”

“Yoga for Men helps you cultivate joy, peace, radical self-acceptance and vibrant health.”

“You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.”

“Yoga Is A Light, Which Once Lit, Will Never Dim. The Better Your Practice, The Brighter The Flame.”

“Yoga does not transform the way we see things. it transforms the person who sees.”

“One becomes firmly established in practice only after attending to it for a long time, without interruption and with an attitude of devotion.”

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

“The pose begins when you want to leave it.”

“In the darkness, I am light.”

“You will never influence the world by trying to be like it.”

“Give this world good energy.”

“Inhale the future. Exhale the past.”

“Quiet your mind. Free your body.”

“Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.”

“Your body can do it. It is your mind you need to convince.”

“Life is better when you bend.”

“Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.”

Now that all these motivational quotes on yoga have reminded you all the benefit, get up now with sit on your yoga mat. You can miraculous experience the mind within a week just like mentioned in these motivational quotes on Yoga. But always remember, consistency is the key to get the befit of anything. After reading all these motivational quotes on yoga, you just have to keep doing it on a regular basis, and you won’t even realize when it became an integral part of your life. All the best for your journey towards a more balanced and structured life.

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