Stretching Quotes

• You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

  Joseph Pilates

  Yoga, Asana, Spine

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• Even if you don't have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body.

  Erin Heatherton

  Workout, Morning, Night

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• You were created to excel. There’s no limit to how high you can go in life. Keep stretching to the next level.

  Joel Osteen

  Next Level, Levels, Limits

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Become a Better You Journal: A Guide to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Motivational, Track, Self Improvement

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  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

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• I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

  Edwin Moses

  Preparation, Problem, Injury

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.

  Jozy Altidore

  Sports, Athlete, Before And After

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

  Rick Hansen

  Motivational, Goal, Challenges

  Rick Hansen, Joan Laub (1994). “Going the distance: 7 steps to personal change”

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• Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

  Bob Harper

  Success, Yoga, Asana

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• Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

  Edwin Moses

  Preparation, Majors

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• Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Stars, Flower, Men

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• Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.

  Jane Fonda

  Workout, Exercise, Work Out

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• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

  Wayne Dyer

  Change, Spiritual, Buddhist

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• It's hard to stay flexible if you don't stretch. I think if you train the right way you'll be flexible. There are people that don't appreciate the value of stretching. I think it's very important.

  Darren Shahlavi

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

  Source: collider.com

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• Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Soul, Trying

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• I do some weights and I do a lot of stretching.

  Mike Ditka

  Weight

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• I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

  Doris Lessing

  I Can

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

  Les Brown

  Higher Ground, People, Want

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• Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Challenges

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Be All You Can Be: A Challenge to Stretch Your God-Given Potential”, p.40, David C Cook

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• The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Passion, Growth, Mindset

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.7, Random House

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• A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Running, Humble, Thrones

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• You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind.

  Romana Kryzanowska

  Strength, Fitness, Mind

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• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Self Esteem, Passion, People

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• When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Confidence, Systematic

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