Motivational Quotes

Health

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

Best Quotes about Health

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

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

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

Adelle Davis

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

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

Baker, Richard

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

10.

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

11.

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.

Welsh, Joan

12.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

Bowen, Francis

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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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We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

Proverb, English

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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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I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

Seth Rogen

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

Quentin Crisp

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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

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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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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

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Health is my expected heaven.

Keats, John

23.

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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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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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

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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

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

Horace

28.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

31.

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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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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A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

36.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

40.

Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.

Kordich, Jay

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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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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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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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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 health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robert Orben

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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