Health Quotes

This page is a collection of inspiring Health Quotes.

What is health? What does it mean to be healthy? Whose responsibility is it to keep me healthy? These are important questions and the quotes below are a great starting point to get some answers.

I'm excited as I see more people questioning the status quo - the accepted beliefs of what it means to be healthy. More and more I see people taking responsibility for keeping themselves healthy and fit and that puts a smile on my face.

Continue to question, try alternative/complimentary healing modalities, and be proactive.

Enjoy this page of inspiring Health Quotes.

Within each of us
lies the power of our consent to health and sickness,
to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery.
It is we who control these, and not another.
-Richard Bach

The longer I live
the less confidence I have in drugs
and the greater is my confidence
in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.
-John Redman Coxe

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

Health is like money,
we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
-Josh Billings

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

Health is worth more than learning.
-Thomas Jefferson

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

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

In order to change
we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
-unknown

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

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
-Joseph Addison

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

Without health, there is no point. To anything.
-Everett Mámor

It's no coincidence
that four of the six letters in health are 'heal'.
-Ed Northstrum

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
-Albert Schweitzer

When it comes to eating right and exercising,
there is no "I'll start tomorrow."
Tomorrow is disease.
-V.L. Allineare

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

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
-Danish Proverb

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
-Thomas Dekker

The patient should be made to understand
that he or she must take charge of his own life
. Don't take your body to the doctor
as if he were a repair shop.
-Quentin Regestein

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

The groundwork of all happiness is health.
-Leigh Hunt

True enjoyment comes from
activity of the mind and exercise of the body;
the two are ever united.
-Humboldt

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

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health
and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
-Joseph Addison

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

Health is the thing
that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
-Franklin P. Adams

Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you
of poor health, lethargy, and fat.
-Jill Johnson

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
The soul must see through these eyes alone,
and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
-Goethe