Motivational Quotes

Health

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

Best Quotes about Health

The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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

Rabbi Harold Kushner

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

Zoroaster

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

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

Bowen, Francis

15.

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

Murphy, Arthur

16.

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

17.

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

18.

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

Sterne, Laurence

19.

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

Kordich, Jay

20.

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

21.

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

Chekhov, Anton

22.

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

Adelle Davis

23.

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

Horace

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Heave

32.

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

33.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Robert Orben

35.

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

36.

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

37.

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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

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

42.

Be not slow to visit the sick.

Ecclesiastes

43.

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

44.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

45.

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

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

47.

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.

48.

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

Jackie Mason

49.

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

50.

I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas