Bikram Choudhury Quotes

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

At a certain point in the writing of any book, you become absolutely certain that it's terrible and is only getting more terrible with every word you write. This is normal. You just have to keep going, push your way through, and have faith that, through practice and experience and determination, you will get to the end.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.

And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us!

Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.