Top 293 Posture Quotes & Sayings

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

Posture has such a big impact on the way people perceive you.

When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with his mark. It should be the same for you who are about to shoot the head of the wicked devil. Let us be concerned first for the good order of sensations and then for the good posture of inner thoughts.'

The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.

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

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

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

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture.

Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

Older Diana holds herself so well. The director would be like, 'Emma, posture!'

On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

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

My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

Posture for combat is so vital.

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

I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we're defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility. Not to get into politics or anything.

Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

Your best posture is your next posture.

Fortunately, good posture - like poor posture - is habit forming.

Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

A drink this good deserves one's best posture.

Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

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

The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.

Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

People tend to lean on cardio machine handles, and their posture begins to suffer.

Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.

Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

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

I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.

I had a really bad running posture: like, I ran, literally, dropping on my face.

I have very bad posture.

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

I don't mind wearing a corset; it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.

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

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

When the biceps become too strong, it brings the shoulders forward and makes for a gorilla-like posture.

I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my back muscles instead of my abs. My posture has put a lot of strain on my lower back.

One of the things that has changed my life - and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality - is meditating. The simple act of making my brain shut off for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night may not seem like much, but what ends up happening, besides creating space in your day, is your awake posture begins to replicate your meditative posture.

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.