83 Health Quotes That Inspire Positive Action

Our health is important and a healthy body can change you in more ways than you realize, both physically and emotionally. These health quotes show why we need to take care of our bodies and treat it with all the love in the world.

Health Quotes

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

“Happiness lies first of all in health.” – George William Curtis

“By choosing healthy over skinny, you are choosing self-love over self-judgement.” – Steve Maraboli

“To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.” – Gene Tunney

“The mind and body are not separate. what affects one, affects the other.” – Anonymous

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” – Fred DeVito

“Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.” – James Freeman Clarke

“Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” – William Shakespeare

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.” – George Dennison

“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You may not be there yet, but you are closer than you were yesterday.” – Unknown

“Nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine and good water.” – Flying Hawk

“Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” – Thomas Dekker

“Eating crappy food isn’t a reward — it’s a punishment.” – Drew Carey

“Ditch fizzy drinks, caffeine and sugar – they are all stored as fat in the thighs and tummy.” – Gillian McKeith, High Life Magazine

“To get people to eat well, don’t say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them.” – Ellie Krieger

“There is no diet that will do what eating healthy does. Skip the diet. Just eat healthy.” – Anonymous

“A fit, healthy body — that is the best fashion statement.” – Jess C. Scott

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.” – Thomas Jefferson

“It’s challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.” – Joely Fisher

“The best doctors give the least medicine.” – Benjamin Franklin

“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.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I’ve been fit and I’ve been fat, and fit is better.” – Susan Powter

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston Churchill

“The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it are sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.” – Wayne Fields

“To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” – William Londen

“Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

“Floating stools that will not flush show a liver imbalance.” – Gillian McKeith

“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

“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.” – Maimonides

“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin

“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.” – Unknown

“The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” – Joyce Meyer

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish proverb

“My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.” – Leslie Grimutter

“The next few months will go by whether you workout or not!” – Unknown

“Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever.” – Subodh Gupta

“It’s not about weight, it’s about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.” – Deborah Bull

“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

“The problem is that when you’re eating so much sugar combined with extra yeast through those white processed breads, you cause that yeast inside to grow more. And when it bursts out of the gut and goes into the bloodstream, you can feel just dreadful.” – Gillian McKeith

“You shouldn’t eat late at night because that’s when your digestive system… is actually detoxifying the body.” – Gillian McKeith

“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Your body hears everything your mind says.” – Naomi Judd

“If you ever lack the motivation to train then think what happens to your mind and body when you don’t.” – Shifu Lan Yei

“Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.” – Alan Thicke

“The more we see health as a practice rather than as a problem to fix, the more we encourage the body’s natural potential to be healthy.” – Aarti Patel

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patients in care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” – Thomas Edison

“Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.” – Paula Abdul

“1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.” – Mark Bittman

“Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” – Ralph Marston

“Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” – Publilius Syrus

“You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can’t be fat and healthy.” – Susan Powter

“The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.” – Carl Jung

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.” – Joseph Pilates

“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep the mind strong and clear.” – Buddha

“Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley

“No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.” – Suze Orman

“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.” – Wilma Mankiller

“When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come back to reality.” – Bangambiki Habyarimana

“When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.” – Chinese proverb

“Fury. A vital passion in every healthy person’s life, unless you are dead, you have to be bloody furious.” – Susan Powter, The Politics of Stupid

“If you’re too busy to workout, your priorities need to change. I can’t think of too many things more important than your health.” – Rolsey

“Nurturing yourself is not selfish – it’s essential to your survival and your well-being.” – Renee Peterson Trudeau

“To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind–is to be crazy, not healthy.” – Michael Ventura

“Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.” – Plato

“Health is a state of complete mental, social and physical well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” – World Health Organization, 1948

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.” – Voltaire

“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.” – Jean Anthelme

“Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature!” – Steven Magee

“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” – Denis Waitley

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

“Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.” – Marilu Henner

“Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.” – Julia Child

“There’s nothing more important than our good health – that’s our principal capital asset.” – Arlen Specter

“You can either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” – Jim Rohn

“A Healthy Outside Starts From the Inside.” – Warren Forrest

“The wish for healing has always been half of health.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The more you understand yourself, the more silence there is, the healthier you are.” – Maxime Lagacé

“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White