Health - Quotes

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. - Thomas Jefferson

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. - Hippocrates

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

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

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. - Carl Jung

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. - Chungliang Al Huang

Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create. - Voltaire

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states. - Carol Welch

One day in perfect health is much. - Arabic Proverb

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter. - James J. Walsh

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. - John F. Kennedy

Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done. - Jim Rohn

Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease. - Francis Bacon

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. - Jim Rohn

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. - Jimmy Carter

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick. - P. T. Barnum

The groundwork for all happiness is good health. - Leigh Hunt

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. - Rona Barrett