Health Quotes

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

The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil

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

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

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

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero

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 I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. ~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing

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

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

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. ~B.K.S. Iyengar

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman

A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. ~Kin Hubbard

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. ~Joseph Addison

It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. ~DeForest Clinton Jarvis

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

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family