Stretching Quotes

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

  Mike Ditka

  Weight

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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 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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• 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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• Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love

  Kobayashi Issa

  Sleep, Cat, Arise

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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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• 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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• Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

  James Rollins

  Moving, Mad, Genius

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• Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications

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• Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases 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

  Yoga, Training, Use

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