Posture Quotes

• By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.

  Unknown

  Spirit, Chords, Certain

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• Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Pilates, Incredibles, Muscles

  "Kelly Osbourne has 'lost a stone in a month' on Dancing With The Stars" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. September 15, 2009.

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• You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

  Faith Baldwin

  Brother, Heart, Kwanzaa

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• Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.

  David Deida

  Heart, Anxiety, Shining

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Mind, Aikido, States

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

  Loretta Young

  Impossible, Made, Misfortunes

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• We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

  George Saunders

  Age, Trying, Failing

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• Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Freedom, Men, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

  Katy Perry

  Differences, Your Boyfriend, Trying

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• I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.

  Richard V. Allen

  Determination, Generosity, President

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• I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Stress, Impact, Relax

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• We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Mistake, Failure, Learning

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• I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

  Jules Feiffer

  Mother, Father, Looks

  Jules Feiffer (1977). “Hold Me!”, p.44, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Attitude, Majority, Submit

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2692, Delphi Classics

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• If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

  Nina Dobrev

  Thinking, Photograph, Feels

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• I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

  Sting

  Birthday, Children, Healthy

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• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

  Abba Eban

  Ears, Movement, Elegance

  Abba Solomon Eban (1999). “Diplomacy for the Next Century”, p.88, Yale University Press

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• It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Attitude, Heart

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

  Evelyn Waugh

  Children, Ridiculous, Pleasure

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humor, Men, Creating

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3839, Delphi Classics

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• He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

  Daniel De Leon

  Change, Morning, Doe

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• You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Moving, Men, Hands

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• Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Sexy, Lust

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

  Dhani Jones

  Doors, Ties, Bows

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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  A. C. Benson

  Work, Ambition, Men

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