Health Quotes

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.

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

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

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

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

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.

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

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

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

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous,

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

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.

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'

Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

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.

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?

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

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

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

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

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

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

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

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my number.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

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.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.

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.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

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

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time — pills or stairs.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

Time is generally the best doctor.

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body it preserves constant ease and serenity within us and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

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

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.