Motivational Quotes

Health

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

Best Quotes about Health

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

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

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

Welsh, Joan

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

Bowen, Francis

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

Adelle Davis

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Tom

10.

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

Erving, Julius

11.

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

Hendricks, Gay

12.

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

13.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

14.

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

Cher

15.

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

Orben, Robert

16.

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

17.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

20.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

21.

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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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

23.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

24.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

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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Be not slow to visit the sick.

Ecclesiastes

27.

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

28.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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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

33.

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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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

35.

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

Russell, Bertrand

37.

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

Proverb, English

38.

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

Proverb, Italian

39.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

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

Spencer, Herbert

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

45.

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

46.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Health is my expected heaven.

Keats, John

49.

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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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