Motivational Quotes

Health

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Health

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Cher

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

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Bowen, Francis

10.

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

Adams, Franklin P.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Jackie Mason

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Adelle Davis

17.

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

18.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

19.

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

Murphy, Arthur

20.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

21.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

29.

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

30.

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

George Dennison Prentice

31.

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

Kordich, Jay

32.

The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.

Johnson, Harry J.

33.

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

34.

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

Zoroaster

35.

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

36.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

39.

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

Salern, Schola

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

42.

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

Baker, Richard

43.

The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

44.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

45.

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

46.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Sterne, Laurence

47.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Horace

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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.