Top 100 Health Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best health quotes ever written, picked out of the full health archive on QuoteForever. You will find Frederick Lenz, Henry David Thoreau, Francois De La Rochefoucauld and Deepak Chopra among them.

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1

It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

2

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

3

No" is a complete sentence.

4

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

5

...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

6

A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.

7

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

8

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

9

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

10

The mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort marry again and again. According to Agricola, at the mines in the Carpathian mountains, women have been known to marry seven times.

11

A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.

12

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

13

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.

14

True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.

15

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

16

While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

17

For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.

18

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

19

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

20

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

21

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.

22

There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health

23

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

24

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

25

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

26

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

27

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

28

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

29

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.

30

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

31

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

32

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

33

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

34

As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

35

I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

36

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

37

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

38

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

39

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

40

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

41

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

42

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

43

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

44

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

45

I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

46

The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.

47

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

48

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

49

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

50

The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

51

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

52

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

53

Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

54

When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

55

You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.

56

If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.

57

As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

58

In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.

59

When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

60

The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.

61

The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.

62

Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

63

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

64

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

65

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

66

Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

67

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

68

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

69

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

70

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

71

What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.

72

His art is the health of the artist.

73

A woman's health is her capital.

74

Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws--hygeine [sic] of the body, and hygeine of the spirit--is the surest warrant for health and happiness.

75

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

76

The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.

77

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

78

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

79

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.

80

We need the tonic of wildness.

81

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

82

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

83

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

84

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

85

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

86

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

87

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

88

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

89

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

90

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

91

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

92

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

93

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.

94

Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.

95

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

96

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

97

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

98

Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.

99

Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

100

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

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