Bikram Choudhury Quotations

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.

Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.

Since my asana techniques increase circulation to all organs in the body and increase lung efficiency, I recommend Bikram Balance natural whole food beverage as a way to provide all the critical nutrients to oxygenate the blood and restore the acid/alkaline balance.

Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word - 'Bikram' - because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.

The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.

Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

My system works, as long as people let me do my job my way. It is not just the sequence, it is how you do it: the timing, the mirrors, the temperature, the carpet. But if people only do it 99% right, it is 100% wrong. When someone tries to mess with it, the people won't get the yoga benefits.

You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit.

If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.

Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.

You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license.

Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.

I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.

I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, 'No, you cannot do that.' You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.

So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.

When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

It wasn't easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission - to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.

I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.

Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.

Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.

Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.

In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.

When President Ronald Reagan asked me a stupid question once, I called him an idiot in public! I thought I was going to be arrested, but he laughed and appreciated me.

My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.

Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.

Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it.

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? (Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)

You have nothing to lose. You had nothing to begin with.

No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.

All you need are the words I give you here and your own honest efforts.

The right way is the hard way.

Let no one steal your peace.

Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.

Cheer up, things will get worse.

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

Give me 30 days, I'll change your body. Give me 60 days , I'll change your life

Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

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

If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

You are never too old or too broken. It is never too late to begin, or to start all over again.

Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.

Bikram Yoga will give you 'The Key to the Kingdom of Health'

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.

Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.

It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because 'Bikram' has restored it.