Movement is important not only for your body but also for your mind and soul. In order to lead a positive, happy and healthy life, it is crucial for everyone to keep moving and incorporate certain fitness routine in their daily life. We have thoughtfully compiled the best quotes on movement to inspire you to keep moving and staying fit in a fast moving life.
Best Movement quotes to motivate you to keep moving in life.
1) “The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion” – Marquis De Sade
2) “Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.” – Plato
3) “Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.” – Aldous Huxley
4) “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra
5) “Life is a balance between rest and movement.” – Rajneesh
6) “Movement is the essence of life.” ― Bernd Heinrich
7) “Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends.” – Thomas Jefferson
8) “Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.” – Carol Welch
9) “Movement is the song of the body.” – Vanda Scaravelli
10) “Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” – Alfred Adler
11) “Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.” – Oliver Sacks
12) “Movement is tranquility.” – Stirling Moss
13) “Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.” – Steve Maraboli
14) “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White
15) “To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.” – Jerry Seinfeld
16) “Using your body to free your mind. That’s the blessing bestowed by movement, by action.” – Marty Rubin
17) “Movement satisfies the prerequisites for your body function. Don’t rest! Move!” – Joerg Teichmann
18)“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
19)“Without movement there is no Life…We should use our energy to the fullest.” – Ai Qing
20)“Movement is life; and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.” — Jules Verne
Inspirational Movement Quotes on fitness and going out
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” – Mata Hari
“Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.” – Rumi
“I’m passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings ― it’s all a miracle.” – Arthur Rubinstein
“We float effortlessly in the ethereal tide of the movement of the rhythms of nature and the vibrations of the pulse of life.” – Ian Factor
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” – Blaise Pascal
“I move, therefore I am.” – Haruki Murakami
“The body always leads us home … if we can simply learn to trust sensation and stay with it long enough for it to reveal appropriate action, movement, insight, or feeling.” – Pat Ogden
Movement quotes that will motivate you to get out and move your body
“Me thinks that the minute my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow, as if I had given vent to the stream at the lower end and consequently new fountains flowed into it at the upper.” – Henry David Thoreau
“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” – Martha Graham
“Trying out new ways of using your body in handling various situations breaks you free from old ways of thinking and being.” – Mirka Knaster
“We have a brain for one reason and one reason only ― that’s to produce adaptable and complex movements. Movement is the only way we have affecting the world around us … I believe that to understand movement is to understand the whole brain. And therefore it’s important to remember when you are studying memory, cognition, sensory processing, they’re there for a reason, and that reason is action.” – Daniel Wolpert
“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Think with the whole body.” – Taisen Deshimaru
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen
“By moving fearlessly you can gain a limitless mind.” – Armin Houman
“Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.” – James Rippe
“Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.” – Steve Maraboli
1“I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.” – Henri Bergson
“Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.” – Saul Alinsky
“Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this inner movement were not so strong, the outer one would not have any action.” – Jeanne de Salzmann
Movement quotes to stay active and keep moving forward
“Our own body is the best health system we have ― if we know how to listen to it.” – Christiane Northrup
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” – John F. Kennedy
“Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our authentic selves. In such sacred moments, the world seems to be in step. This is why the idea of finding love across the dance floor endure ― symbolizing that, when we know the true rhythm of our heart, we know the other.” – Alexandra Katehakis
“Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.” – Cicero
Movement quotes on active lifestyle
“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley
“Whatever gets you moving and out of your head is good for you.” – Marty Rubin
“Action is this movement which is itself thought and emotion. This action is the relationship between the individual and society. It is conduct, work cooperation, which we call fulfillment. That is, when mind is functioning without seeking a culmination, a goal, and therefore thinking creatively, that thinking is action, which is the relationship between the individual and society. Now, if this movement of thought is clear, simple, direct, spontaneous, profound, then there is no conflict in the individual against society, for action then is the very expression of this living, creative movement.” – Krishnamurti
“Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.” – Jason Crandall
“Inertness is the universal sign of death. Nothing can exist without movement.” – Drew Gerald
“People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles.” – William Faulkner
Best Movement Quotes
“Life is in a perpetual spontaneous movement and free. The art of all arts is to capture a 3-dimensional contextual moment. If you cling to it you won’t capture it and if you do not stay alert you’ll miss it.” – Philippe Benichou
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” – Carl Jung
“I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.” ― Andrew Tridgell
“I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.” ― Alfred Rosenberg
“I really love yoga. I love the mindfulness of it, where not only are you exercising your body, but you’re also building that mind/body connection as far as being aware of every movement – what your body’s doing, how your body’s feeling.” – Miranda Rae Mayo
“There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement.” – Kazimir Malevich
“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The flow of the movement of change will be impeded wherever healing has not occurred.” ― Sharon Weil
“People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment… when one thing changes into something else.” – Andre Kertesz
Movement quotes to Encourage You to move out of your comfort zone
“We see in order to move; we move in order to see.” –William Gibson
“The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.” ― Anna Halprin
“All our first movements are good, generous, heroic; reflection weakens and kills them.” ― Aime Martin
“I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.” ― Alice Paul
“You move gropingly, relying on your faith and acting on your intuition.” ― Sunday Adelaja
“Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.” ― B.K.S. Iyengar“A movement is always made up of individuals, and it’s the cumulative effort to these individuals that create change.” – Earthling Ed
“We move from one invisibility to another.” – Ali Smith
Every little movement has a meaning of its own. – Tony Sarg
“Every movement based on the kingdom principles brings a positive turnaround.” – Sunday Adelaja
“Each day move a little more from tightening to lightening.” – Alan Cohen
Movement Quotes on Walking and Exercise
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” — Ellen Glasgow
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” — Plato
“Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.” — Claude Debussy
“When I started studying acting, I was enamored of actors who used movement to enhance the language.” — Steven Berkoff
“I don’t harp on the negative because if you do, then there’s no progression. There’s no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.” — Taraji P. Henson
“Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.” — Thomas Frey
“You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.” — Ben Stein
“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Dance and Movement Quotes
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts
“Actually, I try different kinds of exercise. I do functional training, Zumba, classical dance and walking.” — Navya Nair
“Movement is expressive. I’ve never denied that. I don’t think there’s such a thing as abstract dance.” — Merce Cunningham
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” — Wayne Dyer
“When a body moves, it’s the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov
“You have to dance unencumbered. There’s no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it’s inclusiveness.” — Judith Jamison
“The men’s dance style in dancehall is territorial, but it’s also flirtatious and it’s also showing off strength by way of smooth movement that you can only do if you’re really strong. It has so much attitude.” — Caroline Polachek
“I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.” — Katherine Dunham
“When I’m traveling, I always look for a dance studio. It’s a great workout and a wonderful way to meet new friends in the community.” — Rachel Boston
“When movement isn’t enough, you dance, or when speaking isn’t enough, you sing. When it’s organic, and it’s earned like that in a musical, that’s when it works, and then there’s nothing like it because it’s this thing that takes you to a whole ‘nother level, you know?” — Rob Marshall
Movement and Fitness Quotes to Keep you Body Fit
“The human body is the best work of art.” – Jess C. Scott
“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.” – Marquis de Sade
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Explore, dream, and discover.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.” – Tony Robbins
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.” – John Assaraf
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.” – Gene Tunney
“You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” – Patrick Ness
“The best day to start exercising is today. Tomorrow can turn into weeks, months or years.” – Mark Dilworth
“The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.” – Ken Doherty
“Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince.” – Andrew Murphy
Movement Quotes to beat the monotony
“All creative activity begins with movement.”- Joseph C Zinker
“Nothing is more revealing than movement.” – Martha Graham
“How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement – no matter how temporary.” – Craig Thompson
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – Carl Jung
“It’s great to want to be part of something, but it’s a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.” – Brandon Boyd
More Messages and Caption on Movement
“For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.” ― Adam Braun
“There’s no time for regrets. You’ve just got to keep moving forward.” — Mike McCready
“Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.” — Amit Ray
“One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.” — Andre Balazs
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Never confuse movement with action.” – Ernest Hemingway
“We started a movement… to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.” — Andrew Shue
“I’ve noticed it a lot. I’m not someone who revises. It’s always the first movement, it’s that. It’s an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won’t ever work.” — Amelie Nothomb
“Don’t try to rush progress. Remember — a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.” – Kara Goucher
“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen.” – Bradley Whitford
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.” – Roy T. Bennett
Movement Quotes On Body Fitness
“She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.” ― Christopher Poindexter
“Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don’t move.” — Marc Jacobs
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney
“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” – Vladimir Lenin
“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
“Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.” — George Lucas
Movement Quotes On Moving
“When I want to be bold about my movement … I for sure do not call it exercise!” — Mary Anne Radmache
“Exercise is labor without weariness.” — Samuel Johnson
“With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.” — Joseph Raffael
“Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.” — Nikola Tesla
“Music loud, I can’t help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings… I can see it in the strokes.” — Laura Harris
“There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.” — Theodore Robinson
“Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.” — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Skinheads are becoming part of our overall movement.” — Tom Metzger
“In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.” — Baron de Montesquieu
“I’m too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.” — Terry Kath
