180 Health Quotes For A Better Mind, Body (And Life)

Here are 180 of the best health quotes I could find. And my goal is simple: to inspire you and make you realize that your health is all you have. Enjoy!

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. Arabian proverb

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Keep your vitality. A life without health is like a river without water. Maxime Lagacé

Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it. Naval Ravikant

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned. Naval Ravikant

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn

Happiness is the highest form of health. Dalai Lama

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Tony Robbins

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

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Carl Jung

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

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. Arthur Schopenhauer

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. Henry David Thoreau

Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself. Naval Ravikant

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The Best Health Quotes

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The greatest wealth is health. Virgil Click to tweet

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Hippocrates

Health is a vehicle, not a destination. Joshua Fields Millburn

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

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it. Ann Wigmore

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

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

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry. Robert Hutchison

Before healing others, heal yourself. Gambian saying Click to tweet

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

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

Nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine and good water. Flying Hawk (Native American saying)

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddhist saying

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer Click to tweet

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything. Thich Nhat Hanh

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy. Deepak Chopra

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. Charles Caleb Colton

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Sickness – nature’s vengeance for violating her laws. Charles Simmons

After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile. T. Cogan

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

The wish for healing has always been half of health. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Click to tweet

Your body hears everything your mind says. Naomi Judd

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What Is Health?

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Health consists with temperance alone. Alexander Pope Click to tweet

Health is a relationship between you and your body. Unknown

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

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of year. Franklin P. Adams

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The Most Famous Health Quotes

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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Benjamin Franklin Click to tweet

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha

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

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

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. Friedrich Nietzsche

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Unknown

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I stand in awe of my body. Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Eat to live, not live to eat. Socrates

Prevention is better than cure. Desiderius Erasmus

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa

I am confident that nobody will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. Nelson Mandela

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important. Keanu Reeves

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you’re not healthy. You can’t appreciate it. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)

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

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. Aristotle

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well… and to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly. Socrates

The best doctors gives the least medicine. Benjamin Franklin Click to tweet

Nothing is more fatal to health, than an over care of it. Benjamin Franklin

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

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson

The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison

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

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. Napoleon Bonaparte

Health is not valued until sickness comes. Thomas Fuller

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Short Health Quotes

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If you would live long, open your heart. Bulgarian saying Click to tweet

The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. Danish proverb

Health and intellect are the two blessings of life. Menander

Eating is overrated and sleep is underrated. @AmuseChimp

Well-being is enough wealth. Lailah Gifty Akita

Garbage in garbage out. George Fuechsel

Inhale. Exhale. Unknown

Having a healthy mind is just as important as a healty body. Unknown

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. Unknown

If you think wellness is expensive, try illness. Unknown

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Unknown

Your health is an investment, not an expense. Unknown

A man grows most tired while standing still. Chinese proverb Click to tweet

There are some remedies worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus

Health and cheerfulness are brothers. William Hardcastle Browne

Great health starts with a great sleep. Dan Go

When the head aches, all the body is the worse. English proverb

He who can believe himself well, will be well. Ovid

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Inspirational Health Quotes

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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison Click to tweet

Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel. Kevin Trudeau

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

Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy. Bella Bleue

Embrace and love your body. It’s the most amazing thing you will ever own. Unknown

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. Tony Robbins

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. George Bernard Shaw

Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being ‘silly.’ But the word ‘silly’ comes from the old English word ‘selig’ and its literal definition is ‘to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous’. Zig Ziglar

Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. Johnny Carson

The chief condition on which life, health, and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. Colin Powell

Let your body be your holy temple. Lailah Gifty Akita

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. Hippocrates

If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with. Deepak Chopra

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. William Hazlitt

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. Fred Rogers

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you. Deepak Chopra

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Funny Health Quotes

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Rule No.37. The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead. Michael Pollan

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. Dr. Seuss

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it. Jackie Gleason

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. Johnny Carson

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. Charles M. Schulz

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. Steven Wright Click to tweet

After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. James Howell

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

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. Joan Welsh

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account. Anne Wilson Schaef

If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake

Joy and temperance and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Click to tweet

Anybody’s soap is superior to somebody else’s stink killer. Martin H. Fischer

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. Unknown

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

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. Stefan Sagmeister

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. Logan Clendening

First need in the reform of hospital management? That’s easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. Martin H. Fischer

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. Denis Diderot

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

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

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. Samuel Butler

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson

Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. Dorothy Parker

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. Henry Ward Beecher

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Deep Health Sayings

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A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck

The part can never be well unless the whole is well. Plato Click to tweet

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. Friedrich Nietzsche

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. Charles Dickens

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! Charles Lamb

Happiness lies, first of all, in health. George William Curtis

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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. G.K. Chesterton

Promise a great and total change — from poor to rich, sickness to health, misery to ecstasy — and you will have followers. Robert Greene

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

The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together. Kurdish Saying

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. Francis Bacon Sr Click to tweet

Sickness always brings the soul nearer to God. James Lendall Basford

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. Laurence Sterne

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

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. John Locke

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. Kurt Vonnegut

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

Illness tells us what we are. Italian saying

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Wise Health Sayings

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To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. Chu Hui Weng Click to tweet

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. Catalan proverb

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. Chinese proverb

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

Love, success, family and friends all come after my health. No health, no enjoyment. Maxime Lagacé

If you are going to heal in a magnificent way, you have to feel magnificent. Joe Dispenza

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

In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else. Alison Rose Levy

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. Billy Graham

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. John Locke

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy. Izaak Walton

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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

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. Winston Churchill

Poor health is not caused by something you don’t have; it’s caused by disturbing something that you already have. Healthy is not something that you need to get, it’s something you have already if you don’t disturb it. Dean Ornish

No time for your health today, no health for your time tomorrow. Thibaut

My number one priority in life, above my happiness, above my family, above my work, is my own health. It starts with my physical health. Naval Ravikant

I have looked through the list of illnesses, and did not find cares or sad thoughts mentioned among them. That is a mistake, surely. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. Herophilus

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. Lord Chesterfield

What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature. Thales Of Miletus

There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps. Unknown Click to tweet

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

We drink to one another’s health and spoil our own. Jerome K. Jerome

Don’t defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. Norman Cousins

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. Martin H. Fischer

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body. Juvenal

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Part 3. Conclusion

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Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn Click to tweet

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