Motivational Quotes

Health

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Health

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

Baudelaire, Charles

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Spencer, Herbert

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

Waitley, Denis

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

Jay Leno

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100]

Blake, Eubie

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.

Salern, Schola

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

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I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Jackie Mason

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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Peter McWilliams

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That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.

Stephanie Klein

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If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Erving, Julius

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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Hippocrates

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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

Scott Westerfeld

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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

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You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

Jeph Jacques

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Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

Cher

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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

George Dennison Prentice

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I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

Stephanie Klein

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The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.

King, Florence

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Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Orben, Robert

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Health is my expected heaven.

Keats, John

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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Horace

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Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

Peter McWilliams

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The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Twain, Mark

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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

Robbins, Tom

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It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff

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I'd heard it all the time,'Live in the moment.'But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

Stephanie Klein

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One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Russell, Bertrand

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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.

Zoroaster

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To feel fit as a fiddle you must tone down your middle.

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There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.

Billings, Josh

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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

Robert Orben

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The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.

Robbins, Anthony

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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature --if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you --know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, thereÆs less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, whatÆs the fun in eating anything you want to?

Tom Hanks