In a Health Rut? These 100 Quotes Will Inspire You to Get Back on Track
It’s the question we all want the answer to: “What’s the secret to living a long, healthy life?” Being healthy goes far beyond diet and exercise. Achieving optimal wellness requires meeting five core needs: Physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual. Because when one area is neglected, it can have a negative ripple effect on all aspects of your life.
That’s why it’s important to find ways to bring your mind and body back into balance. This collection of health quotes will inspire you to start living your best (and healthiest) life! Here are 100 of them.
100 Health Quotes
1. "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha
2. “No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.” – Deepak Chopra
3. “He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” – Thomas Carlyle
4. “Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.” – George Bernard Shaw
5. "Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit." — B.K.S. Iyengar
6. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Will Durant
7. "Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes." — Dalai Lama
8. "Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live in." — Jim Rohn
9. "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
10. "Follow your dreams, work hard, practice, and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise, and maintain a healthy lifestyle." — Sasha Cohen
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11. "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." — Mahatma Gandhi
12. "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." — Benjamin Franklin
13. “Nurturing yourself is not selfish – it’s essential to your survival and your well-being.” – Renee Peterson Trudeau
14. “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” – Tony Robbins
15. “Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.” – Jean-Pierre Barral
16. “We know that food is a medicine, perhaps the most powerful drug on the planet with the power to cause or cure most disease.” – Dr. Mark Hyman
17. “If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it, you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy.” – Oli Hille
18. “Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy.” – Bella Bleue
19. “What drains your spirit, drains your body. What fuels your spirit, fuels your body.” – Carolyn Myss
20. “The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.” – Zig Ziglar
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21. “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston Churchill
22. “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore
23. “Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.” – Mark Halperin
24. “The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil
25. “Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates
26. “Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.” – Edward Smith Stanley
27. “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs
28. “The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.” – Kenneth H. Cooper
29. “The body loves routine. Try to eat, sleep, and so on at the same times every day in order for the body to function at its optimum efficiency. The body loves consistency.” – Theresa Hearn Haynes
30. “If you achieve all kinds of things in the material world, but you lose your health or your peace of mind, you get little or no pleasure from your other accomplishments.” – Brian Tracy
31. "Take a few minutes each and every day to ensure that your mind is nourished properly and positively. After all, a healthy mind leads to a happier view of life and with a happier view of life it is much easier to counter the negative impact other issues will have on us." – Catherine Pulsifer
32. "Anger can have equally disastrous effects on your own life. Left unchecked, it can destroy some of your closest relationships and undermine your physical and mental health." – Albert Ellis
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33. “Sleep is the most important ‘repair’ mechanism our body has, and getting enough of it will ensure you’re feeling fit and energized the next day.” – Jason Smith
34. “Eating fruits for breakfast is a healthy way of breaking the overnight fast as this is a gentle way of waking up your digestive system.” – Bogdan Ivanov
35. "No individual can ever truly be a healthy and whole individual after loss without coming to terms with their loss and understanding the magnitude of that loss while also understanding that they must still live for the future." – Valerie Orr
36. “By using techniques such as yoga, breathing, bioenergetics, physical exercises, meditation, and visualization, we can, in turn, influence our chakras, our health, and our lives." – Anodea Judit
37. “Write down the things that are on your mind. The simple act of listing your thoughts can have a cathartic and healing effect.” – Julia Laflin
38. "If you want a relaxed body, you can do it by relaxing your mind. If you want a relaxed mind, relax your body." – Jay Winner
39. “Over the past two decades, extensive research all over the world has shown that laughter has a positive impact on various systems of the body. Most noteworthy is laughter's ability to unwind the negative effects of stress: the catalyst for many of our health problems.” – Madan Kataria
40. “Throughout history, great healers have discovered the power of breathing to enhance the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of their people.” – Richard P. Brown
41. “The groundwork of all happiness is health.” – Leigh Hunt
42. “It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
43. “A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.” – Naval Ravikant
44. “Keep your vitality. A life without health is like a river without water.” – Maxime Lagacé
45. “Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.” – Carl Jung
46. “Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.” – Julia Child
47. “Your body hears everything your mind says.” - Naomi Judd