Strength And Flexibility Quotes

#1. Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

Samantha Stosur

#2. Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.

Stefan Emunds

#3. Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't - some people do lead enchanted lives - but odds are that it will. Some time.

Robin McKinley

#4. Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.

Bruce Lee

#5. Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Ameen Rihani

#6. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.

M.E. Dahkid

#7. What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

Hiroko Sakai

#8. We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.

Keith L. Moore

#9. The measure of a person's strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.

Debasish Mridha

#10. For taijutsu, the flexibility of the legs is the most important
factor, not the strength of the legs.

Toshitsugu Takamatsu

#11. Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?

Charles Handy

#12. Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.

Liezi

#13. Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.

Carlos Barrios

#14. Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness.

Nastia Liukin

#15. Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the advantage, and strength-to-weight ratio. It does depend on the raw power.

Lynn Hill

#16. What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.

Bob Samples

#17. A woman's flexibility and a man's strength ... put them together and you'll have a body like mine.

Gackt

#18. The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car, or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness.

Sakyong Mipham

#19. Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Robert Kennedy

#20. I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

Joyce DiDonato

#21. Savings give you a lot of strength, flexibility and control. They are what give you the most powerful Answer In The World.

Patrick Bet-David

#22. We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

John McAfee

#23. To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

Leo Buscaglia

#24. Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

Jack LaLanne

#25. Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Lord Chesterfield

#26. Breath is critical to everything, to our relaxation, to our flexibility, to our mobility, to our strength and to our power. Knowing how to use our breath and tapping into this breath strength is critical for success as strength athletes.

Brett Jones

#27. The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.

Evangeline Lilly

#28. Flexibility is the greatest strength.

Steven Redhead

#29. When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.

Nacho Figueras

#30. Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

Jane Fonda

#31. Perhaps that's its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances ... " He paused. " ... are often deceiving.

Julie Anne Long

#32. The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

Pema Chodron