Health Quotes - Page 5

• If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Moral

  Spruche in Prosa Pt 1, Bk II

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• Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

  Susan Sontag

  Get Well Soon, Sick, Citizens

  New York Review of Books 26 Jan. 1978

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• The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.

  Jean Ping

  Mother, Children, Our Society

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• Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.

  George Herbert

  Healthy, Bed, Thirsty

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.364

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• When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.

  Ali Vincent

  Loss, Exercise, Two

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.128, Rodale

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• You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

  Ali Vincent

  Numbers, Track, Want

  Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.80, Rodale

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• There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Fitness, Time

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• Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Running, Husband

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard G. Callaway (2006). “The conduct of life: a philosophical reading”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

  Kris Carr

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Jul 16, 2013

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• Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Selfish, Goal, Over You

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• Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Free Education, Care, Essentials

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• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

  Redd Foxx

  Funny, Lying, Stupid

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• People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Work, People, Waste

  Henrik Ibsen (2014). “Ibsen Plays: 4: John Gabriel Borkman; Pillars of Society; When We Dead Awaken”, p.227, A&C Black

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• The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

  Francesca Annis

  Inspiration, Sleep, Two

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• Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.

  Bill Drayton

  Growing Up, People, Entrepreneur

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• Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Social, Worst, Interest

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.418, e-artnow

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• Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

  Bryan Kest

  Relationship, Patience, Gratitude

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• A healthy outside starts from the inside.

  Robert Urich

  Inspiration, Healthy, Inspirational Health

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• Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

  John Armstrong

  Support, Mind, Cheerful

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.59

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• Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Care, Broads, Denied

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• Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Truth, Agreement

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jun 26, 2010

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• Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Exercise, Men, Mind

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.521

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• Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Care, Healthy

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

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• There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Sacrifice, Things In Life, Two

  The Caxtons Pt XI, Ch. VII

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• Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

  Louis Pasteur

  Food, Drinking, Wine

  Etudes sur le vin Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. B

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