Bikram Choudhury Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm a yogi, not a businessman.

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.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

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

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

Yoga in America is a joke.

Never too old, never too sick, never too bad to start again.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I started with nothing. Zero.

I don't chase money, money chase me!

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

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.

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.

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

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

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

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.

You treat an idiot like an idiot.

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.

Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

American men are like women.

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

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.

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

If you can, you must.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You're never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.

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

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

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

I always forgave my students, like Jesus.

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

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

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

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