Motivational Quotes

Health

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

- Rabbi Harold Kushner

Best Quotes about Health

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

George Dennison Prentice

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

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

Robbins, Tom

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

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

Health is my expected heaven.

Keats, John

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.

Salern, Schola

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

11.

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

Jackie Mason

13.

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

Proverb, English

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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

15.

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

Proverb, Italian

16.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff

21.

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

Murphy, Arthur

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

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

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Twain, Mark

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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

35.

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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To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

Londen, William

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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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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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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The healthy die first.

Proverb, Italian

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

45.

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

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Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller