Motivational Quotes

Health

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Health

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.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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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 feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Be not slow to visit the sick.

Ecclesiastes

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

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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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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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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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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

George Dennison Prentice

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

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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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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Murphy, Arthur

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

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Buddha

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

Rabbi Harold Kushner

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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