Motivational Quotes

Health

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

Best Quotes about Health

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Heave

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

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

Erving, Julius

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

Adams, Franklin P.

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

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.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Murphy, Arthur

12.

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

13.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

17.

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

Orben, Robert

18.

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

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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 healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

25.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

26.

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

Hendricks, Gay

27.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

28.

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

Welsh, Joan

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Health is my expected heaven.

Keats, John

30.

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

31.

I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

32.

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

Bowen, Francis

33.

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

Kordich, Jay

34.

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

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Robbins, Tom

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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Salern, Schola

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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

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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 human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Jackie Mason

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

Buddha