Motivational Quotes

Health

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

Best Quotes about Health

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

Cher

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

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

Chekhov, Anton

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Salern, Schola

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

Heave

10.

The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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 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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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

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

Rabbi Harold Kushner

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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Orben, Robert

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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

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

Murphy, Arthur

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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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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Londen, William

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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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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

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Stephanie Klein

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A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baker, Richard

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

Robert Orben

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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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