Motivational Quotes

Health

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

Best Quotes about Health

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

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.

Hendricks, Gay

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

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

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

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

Orben, Robert

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

Buddha

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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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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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

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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

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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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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

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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

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The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Rohn, Jim

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Health is my expected heaven.

Keats, John

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

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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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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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A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De