Motivational Quotes

Health

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

Best Quotes about Health

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, English

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

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

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.

Proverb, Italian

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

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Londen, William

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

10.

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

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

11.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

12.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.

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

14.

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Sher, Barbara

15.

The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Adams, Franklin P.

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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

20.

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

21.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

26.

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

Robbins, Tom

27.

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

28.

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

Cher

29.

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

Buddha

30.

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

31.

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

32.

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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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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The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.

Johnson, Harry J.

35.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

36.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

37.

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

Rohn, Jim

38.

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

39.

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

Hendricks, Gay

40.

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

Spencer, Herbert

41.

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

42.

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

Chekhov, Anton

43.

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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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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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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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

47.

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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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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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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