Health Sayings and Quotes
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Better ten times ill than one time dead. -Yiddish (on health and wellness)
Before healing others, heal yourself.-Gambian (on health and wellness)
A man with a cough cannot conceal himself. -African proverb Yoruba Tribe
When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.-Chinese (on health and wellness)
Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease. -Francis Bacon
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.-Joan Welsh
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
To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. -Buddha
Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account. -Anne Wilson Schaef
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings. -Publilius Syrus
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.-Albert Schweitzer
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.-Mark Twain
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
Ill-health of the body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! -Thomas Carlyle
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open-air, easy labor, and little care.-Sir Philip Sidney
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.-Hippocrates
If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.-Julius Erving
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.-Isaac Bickerstaff
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.-Anthony Robbins
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.-unknown
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.-Francis Bowen
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
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
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.-Irish Proverb
Adapt the remedy to the disease.-Chinese Proverb
After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile.-T. Cogan
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.-unknown
Eat to live, not live to eat.-Socrates
Feed a cold and starve a fever.-C. Morley
If you would live long, open your heart.-Bulgarian (on health and wellness)
One day in perfect health is much.-Arabic (on health and wellness)
When one is hungry, everything tastes good.-unknown
A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.-Dalai Lama
All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health.-Reba McEntire
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.-Gene Tunney
A fit, healthy body – that is the best fashion statement.-Jess C. Scott
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.
The greatest wealth is health.
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. -William Londen
The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body. -Harry J. Johnson
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.-Adelle Davis
Health is not valued till sickness comes.-Dr. Thomas Fuller
Health is not simply the absence of sickness. -Hannah Green
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. -Jim Rohn
If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet -Schola Salern
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. -Herbert Spencer
Prevention is better than cure. -Desiderius Erasmus
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
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. -Chinese Proverb
The groundwork for all happiness is good health.-Leigh Hunt
You’re bound to lose your health at some point, but you don’t have to lose your dignity, too.-Bessy & Sadie Delany
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.-Dorothy Parker
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.-Mark Twain
To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being..not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually.-Greg Anderson
Money is not one hundred percent of life, health and happiness is one percent.-Nancy Hopkins Reily
Health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes the mind strong.-Thomas Jefferson
Health is the first requisite after morality. -Thomas Jefferson
To your good health old friend, may you live for a thousand years, and I be there to count them. -Robert Smith Surtees
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.-Ingrid Bergman
With perfect health, there are no low spirits and cannot be. -Walt Whitman
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. -Mark Levine
