Health Quotes

"Health is not simply the absence of sickness."
Hannah Green

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

"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

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Buddha

"Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well."
Marcus Valerius Martial

"Happiness lies, first of all, in health."
George William Curtis

"I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more."
Henry Ward Beecher

"The body can be a source of wealth train it right for your health."
Jerry Brundies, from HEALTH OF THE MIND

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
Arabian Proverb

"Health and intellect are the two blessings of life."
Menander

"Nature, time and patience are three great physicians."
H.G. Bohn

"Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet."
Christian D. Larsen, from THE OPTIMIST CREED

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Charles Caleb Colton

"There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it."
Josh Billings

"If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies."
Leo Tolstoy

"The golf balls are the important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full."
Author Unknown, from The Professor and the Jar

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon."
Doug Larson

"A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison."
Francis Bacon

"A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not."
African Proverb

"Common sense is in medicine the master workman."
Peter Latham

"May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!"
Philip Dormer Stanhope

"There are some remedies worse than the disease."
Publilius Syrus

"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."
Izaak Walton

"Today I can grumble about my health or I can rejoice that I am alive."
Author Unknown, from Sculptor's Attitude

"Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man."
James H. West

"He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors."
Chinese Proverb

"Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too."
John Armstrong

"Money can buy a tonic, but not health."
M. K. Soni

"One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick."
Rabbi Harold Kushner

"If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want."
Elbert Hubbard

"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

"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."
George Carlin, from How To Stay Young

"Good friends are good for your health."
Irwin Sarason

"If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
Leon Eldred

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
Mark Twain

"The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life."
Author Unknown, from How Poor Are We

"Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot."
William C. Hazlitt

"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction."
Henry Ward Beecher

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
Billy Graham

"If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease."
Robert Ingersoll