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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Chekhov, Anton

There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.

Billings, Josh

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

Rabbi Harold Kushner

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

Scott Westerfeld

10.

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

11.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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

13.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

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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

15.

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

Hendricks, Gay

18.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

19.

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

20.

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

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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

22.

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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Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Welsh, Joan

26.

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

27.

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

Robbins, Tom

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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

31.

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.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

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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

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Buddha

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Quentin Crisp

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A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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