Motivational Quotes

Health

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

Best Quotes about Health

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Robbins, Tom

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

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

The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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

19.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

20.

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

21.

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

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

Cher

23.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

George Dennison Prentice

24.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

25.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

26.

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

Hendricks, Gay

27.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Salern, Schola

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

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

Chekhov, Anton

33.

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

34.

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

Londen, William

35.

Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

38.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Zoroaster

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One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.