Best Yoga Quotes to Inspire Your Practice

Best Yoga Quotes to Inspire Your Practice

While the more advanced practitioner can find deep wisdom for their practice, even a beginner or someone who has never stepped on a mat will be touched by these best yoga quotes to inspire your practice that speak about mindfulness, inner peace, self-discovery, and much more.

Inspiring quotes that draw on the wisdom of ancient yogic philosophy and contemporary musings about mind-body wellness remind us how balance, strength, and harmony within contribute to our equilibrium in life.

Advocating for the practice of being in the moment, appreciating what we have, and doing it intentionally. Whether as a reminder of one’s own strength on the mat or as inner inspiration off the mat, yoga quotes can lift your soul and help you find peace.

Yoga Quotes to Inspire: Inhale the future

“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” — The Bhagavad Gita

“Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down.” — Jigar Gor

“Inhale the future, exhale the past.” — Unknown

“The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.” — Sakyong Mipham

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

“Yoga takes you into the present moment. The only place where life exists.” — Patanjali

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

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
— Peace Pilgrim

“The pause begins when you want to leave it.” — B.K.S. Iyengar

“Yoga is the artwork of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.” — Amit Ray

“Yoga does not transform the way we see things. It transforms the person who sees.” — B.K.S. Iyengar

“Through sustained focus and meditation, the self becomes still.” — Patanjali

“A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.”
— Dalai Lama

“The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.” — Jason Crandell

“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.” — B.K.S. Iyengar

“True yoga is not about the shape of your body but the shape of your life.” — Aadil Palkhivala

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

“Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.” — Patanjali

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

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

Quotes About Yoga

“Yoga begins right where I am—not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.” — Linda Sparrowe

“Yoga is the practice of tolerating the consequences of being yourself.” — Bhagavad Gita

“Yoga is not about self-improvement. It’s about self-acceptance.” — Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

“Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.” — B.K.S. Iyengar

“When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something.” — Michael Schumacher

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

“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer’s own form.”
— Patanjali, Yoga Sutras

“Yoga is the science of reality.” — Sivananda Saraswati

“Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.” — Alan Finger

“In truth, yoga doesn’t take time—it gives time.” — Ganga White

 

Deep and Inspiring Yoga Quotes

“Yoga is the unifying art of transforming dharma into action, be it through inspired thought, properly nurtured emotion, or well-performed deed.” — Bhagavad Gita

“Yoga is not about escaping life but experiencing it more deeply.” — Unknown

“Yoga does not remove us from the reality of life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience.” — Donna Farhi

“Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.” — Owen Feltham

“Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.” — Sadhguru

“The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch and leave with a lot more.” — Liza Ciano

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

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

“Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.” — B.K.S. Iyengar

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” — Rumi

 

Yoga Inspirational Quotes

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

“Yoga is not for the body. It is for the soul through the body.” — Sadhguru

“Yoga begins with listening. When we listen, we are giving space to what is.” — Richard Freeman

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

— T. Guillemets.

“Yoga is about remembering who you are.” — Adriene Mishler

“Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.” — Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“You don’t have to be flexible to do yoga. You just have to be willing.” — Unknown

“Yoga teaches more than postures; it teaches patience, persistence, and peace.” — Unknown

“Yoga isn’t just about flexibility of the body. It’s about flexibility of the mind too.” — Unknown

“Yoga is the space where flowers blossom from within.” — Amit Ray

Yoga Motivational Quotes

“Yoga is the stilling of the changing states of the mind.” — Patanjali

“Yoga is the perfect way to detach yourself from chaos and reconnect with calm.” — Unknown

“Balancing in yoga and life is a reflection of our inner state.” — Shiva Rea

“Yoga is not for the flexible. It’s for the willing.” — Unknown

“Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.” — Desikachar

“Through yoga, we become aware of our own human nature, not just the body, but our thoughts and emotions too.” — Donna Farhi

“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.” — T.K.V. Desikachar

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

“Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.” — Mariel Hemingway

“In the practice of yoga, one can emphasise the body, the mind or the self, and hence the effort can never be fruitless.” — T. Krishnamacharya