35 motivational health quotes and sayings

Humanity has long realised the price of well-being, devoting wise health quotes to this topic which serve as a means of transmitting the knowledge and experience of the older generation to the younger one. The thought that it is necessary to be careful about your wellness follows with the understanding of the value of well-being and the devastating effects of diseases.

Sayings and wise thoughts of great and famous people always attract attention. Sometimes they make us smile, but to a greater extent, they make us think.

Health quotes

Health quotes have reached our generation from the ancient doctors, philosophers, scientists, researchers, writers, who assert the supremacy of well-being over everything else in life. In their quotations, they not only state the facts but recommend or reject, warn or teach, approve or condemn. Our collection of statements contains many wise thoughts about human well-being.

• "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." – Dr Madan Kataria
• "Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health – and create profitable diseases and dependencies – by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving. In gardening, for instance, one works with the body to feed the body. The work, if it is knowledgeable, makes for excellent food. And it makes one hungry. The work thus makes eating both nourishing and joyful, not consumptive, and keeps the eater from getting fat and weak. This is health, wholeness, a source of delight." – Wendell Berry
• "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
• "By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful." – Steve Maraboli
• "When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied." – Herophilus
• "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
• "Exercise itself, which tends to be highly repetitive when engaged in regularly, is a major driver of neuroplastic changes in the brain, which is why physical exercise is one of the most important factors in restoring and maintaining mental as well as physical health across the life span, starting from the moment one begins such a program." – Bob Stahl

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• "I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear." – Steve Maraboli
• "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
• "I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this." – Eric Idle
• "Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light." – Damon Wayans
• "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
• "All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They’re also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time." – Suzanne Somers
• "The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually." – Greg Anderson
• "Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health." – Sally Schneider
• "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

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• "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 Wisdom
• "Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset." – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• "Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you." – Monica Bellucci
• "Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "When I go to my health club, and it’s in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can’t there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It’s in society’s interest for me to take the stairs." – Malcolm Gladwell
• "Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed." – Ezra Taft Benson
• "All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They’re also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time." – Suzanne Somers
• "Regaining health is more difficult an objective then becoming ill. Becoming ill is a random act of ignorance and regaining health is an intentional effort in frustration." – Richard Diaz

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• "I find that if I don't have enough physical activity in life, I don't do as well with anything else in my life. It's stress relief; it's good health. It's fun. It's alone time, for the most part." – Betsy Hodges
• "When I go to my health club, and it’s in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can’t there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It’s in society’s interest for me to take the stairs." – Malcolm Gladwell
• "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
• "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
• "A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us." – Pema Chödrön
• "Compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can’t stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting — of leaving ourselves — hundreds of times a day."– Geneen Roth

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Quotes on mental health

Mental health is an essential part of human well-being. This is primarily due to the fact that the human body, where all elements are interconnected with each other and affect each other, is mostly under the control of the nervous system, so the mental state affects the operation of each of the functional systems, and the state of the latter in turn affects the psyche. Below are some quotes of famous people about it.

• "I think it's really important to take the stigma away from mental health.... My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don't know why I wouldn't seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn't I go to a shrink?" – Kerry Washington
• "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." – Buddha
• "When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves." – Jess C. Scott
• "I had everything I needed to be happy. And yet, for much of the last year, I felt unhappy. What basically everyone around me — but me — knew up until December was this: I have postpartum depression. How can I feel this way when everything is so great? I’ve had a hard time coming to terms with that, and I hesitated to even talk about this, as everything becomes such a ‘thing." — Chrissy Teigen
• "Health isn’t about being “perfect” with food or exercise or herbs. Health is about balancing those things with your desires. It’s about nourishing your spirit as well as your body." – Golda Poretsky

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The main secrets of well-being are listening to yourself, understanding your needs and the desire to become a healthy and happy person! After all, "to want" is already the first step to "fulfill." Your health is in your hands.

To have good health is our duty to ourselves. Nothing motivates better than health quotes of famous people. You need not just to read them, but to understand and feel every word.

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