Motivational Quotes

Health

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

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Health

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

Welsh, Joan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

Seth Rogen

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Murphy, Arthur

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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Billings, Josh

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

Buddha

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

Quentin Crisp

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Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Be not slow to visit the sick.

Ecclesiastes

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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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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 Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Chekhov, Anton

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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Kordich, Jay