Motivational Quotes

Health

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

- Robbins, Tom

Best Quotes about Health

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

Jackie Mason

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

George Dennison Prentice

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

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

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

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 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.

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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Robert Orben

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

16.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

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

Murphy, Arthur

18.

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

Robbins, Tom

19.

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

Bowen, Francis

20.

I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

21.

I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

Stephanie Klein

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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

25.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100]

Blake, Eubie

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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 feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

29.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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

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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

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

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

39.

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

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Orben, Robert

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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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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

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