Motivational Quotes

Health

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Health

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

Proverb, Italian

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Billings, Josh

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.

Richards, Bob

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Scott Westerfeld

10.

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

11.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

12.

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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A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Orben, Robert

15.

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

16.

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

Adams, Franklin P.

17.

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

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Kordich, Jay

24.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

25.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Buddha

29.

Be not slow to visit the sick.

Ecclesiastes

30.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

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

32.

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

33.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

Sterne, Laurence

36.

Health is my expected heaven.

Keats, John

37.

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

Erving, Julius

38.

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

Cher

39.

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

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Clarke, James Freeman

44.

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

45.

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

46.

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

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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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.