Motivational Quotes

Health

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

Best Quotes about Health

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Salern, Schola

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

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

One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rabbi Harold Kushner

10.

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

11.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

12.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Albert Schweitzer

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

16.

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

Hendricks, Gay

17.

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

Heave

18.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

19.

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

Sterne, Laurence

20.

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

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

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

23.

I've never felt better.

Fairbanks, Douglas

24.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Robbins, Anthony

25.

Be not slow to visit the sick.

Ecclesiastes

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Buddha

30.

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

Jackie Mason

31.

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

32.

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

Orben, Robert

33.

Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

34.

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

Scott Westerfeld

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

36.

Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out.

Chekhov, Anton

37.

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

38.

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

Robbins, Tom

39.

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

Bowen, Francis

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

Robert Orben

43.

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 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

45.

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

Zoroaster

46.

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

47.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Hunt, Leigh

48.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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

George Dennison Prentice