Motivational Quotes

Health

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Health

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

George Dennison Prentice

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

Jackie Mason

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Waitley, Denis

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

Russell, Bertrand

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Carlyle, Thomas

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Rohn, Jim

14.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

15.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

Izaak Walton

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Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.

Richards, Bob

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

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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

Cher

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Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey

20.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

Baker, Richard

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Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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

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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Quentin Crisp

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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually.

Anderson, Greg

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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

DeGeneres, Ellen

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

Spencer, Herbert

36.

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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Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out.

Chekhov, Anton

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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Heave

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

Salern, Schola

41.

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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To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

Londen, William

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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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As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.

Hendricks, Gay

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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

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A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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 don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

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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Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Murphy, Arthur