Motivational Quotes

Health

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Health

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

Bowen, Francis

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Orben, Robert

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

Zoroaster

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

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Heave

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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

11.

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

12.

The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

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Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

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I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Welsh, Joan

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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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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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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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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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Health is my expected heaven.

Keats, John

27.

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

Murphy, Arthur

28.

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

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Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

32.

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, thereÆs less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, whatÆs the fun in eating anything you want to?

Tom Hanks

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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.

Erving, Julius

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If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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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

40.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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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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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