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

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

Horace

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

Scott Westerfeld

Be not slow to visit the sick.

Ecclesiastes

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Erving, Julius

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

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

10.

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

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Adams, Franklin P.

15.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

16.

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

Salern, Schola

17.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

18.

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

Londen, William

19.

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

Rabbi Harold Kushner

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Hendricks, Gay

24.

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

Quentin Crisp

25.

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

26.

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

Waitley, Denis

27.

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

28.

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

29.

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

30.

You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Tracy, Brian

33.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

34.

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.

35.

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

Chekhov, Anton

36.

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

37.

I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

38.

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

Sterne, Laurence

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Heave

42.

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

43.

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

Cher

44.

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

Zoroaster

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Italian

47.

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

48.

A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them.

Kocher, Gerhard

49.

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

50.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld