The Treasury of Motivational Quotes

Chapter 4: Quotes For A Healthier Living

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

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

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

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

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of

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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

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Plato

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non- being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the

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single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
Barack Obama

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Barack Obama

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.
Barack Obama

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Barack Obama

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

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. Audrey Hepburn

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Carl Jung

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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke

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

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

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. Alexander Pope

Health consists with temperance alone.

Alexander Pope

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

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. Francis Bacon

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

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

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

W. H. Auden

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep

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

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

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Thomas Carlyle

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. Denis Waitley

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Nora Ephron

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Abraham Maslow

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli

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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. Benjamin Disraeli

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
Giacomo Casanova

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
Giacomo Casanova

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

Rush Limbaugh

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

Rush Limbaugh

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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. G. Wells

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it? David Letterman

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

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino

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Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
Sargent Shriver

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. Plutarch

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There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
Buzz Aldrin

A woman's health is her capital.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. Patrick Henry

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health. M. Scott Peck

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