Quotes About the Importance of Good Health

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

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Prevention is better than cure.

There is no health without mental health.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.

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.

Before healing others, heal yourself.

Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought -- they must be earned.

Three things in life -- your health, your mission, and the people you love. That's it.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Doctors won't make you healthy. Nutritionists won't make you slim. Teachers won't make you smart. Gurus won't make you calm. Mentors won't make you rich. Trainers won't make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.

Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Good physical health with well mental health or peace of mind or happiness is the ultimate goal of life.

Respect your body. Eat well. Dance forever.

You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.

When the heart is at peace, the body will be healthy.

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

The body is a sacred garment.

You need to make good health a hobby.

Food is the new health care.

There's nothing more important than our good health -- that's our principal capital asset.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

You can't take good health for granted.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

Your health is your starting point -- without it, you have nothing.

He who has good health is young.

Life is not living, but living in health.

Not sleeping is a problem when you get older. Not only is it linked to weight gain but the whole point of sleep is it allows your body to heal and replenish itself which is vital for good health.

Eating healthy and exercising won't help you if it's only temporary.

As parents, we have a responsibility to teach our family and our children everything they need to know about good health and eating and movement, and just an everyday healthy life.

Health and fitness are totally a choice for a better quality of life.

Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.

Good health is multifaceted -- it's physical, it's internal, it's my diet, and my emotional state. It's all tied in together.

Our body is a machine for living.

The First wealth is health.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

The groundwork for all happiness is good health.

After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

No time for your health today, no health for your time tomorrow.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

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

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz -- something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

Joy and temperance and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.

Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The best doctors gives the least medicine.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

I stand in awe of my body.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

The greatest wealth is health.

Happiness is the highest form of health.

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

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

The first wealth is health.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.