QUOTES

Health Quotes

There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.

~Gro Brundtland

Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.

~Daisaku Ikeda

 

The key to battling illness lies in summoning a vigorous life-force and a positive fighting spirit. This brings out the full effectiveness of a curative treatment.

~Daisaku Ikeda

Sickness and death are unavoidable in life. To experience illness is not itself misfortune, but to be defeated by illness is misfortune.

~Daisaku Ikeda

Human life is indeed wondrous. You may be ill physically, but as long as your mental state is strong, it most certainly will exert a positive influence on your body. There may be no better remedy than hope.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

One should take advantage of the power of medical science to regain one's health. But it is the inherent power of life within us that will ultimately bring out the benefit of the treatment

~ Daisaku Ikeda

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

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 good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. 

~Irish Proverb



Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. 

~Napoleon I



When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow."  Tomorrow is disease. 

~Terri Guillemets



My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. 

~Terri Guillemets



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

Our body is a machine for living.  It is organized for that, it is its nature.  Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. 

~Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. 

~Terri Guillemets

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

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

~Catalan Proverb

Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. 

~Author Unknown

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

~Carl Ransom Rogers

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 druther not.

~Mark Twain

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

~James J. Walsh

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

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

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

~Thomas Jefferson

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

~Buddha

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

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

~Mohandas Gandhi

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

Good health is one of the most important ingredients for a happy and productive life. And yet, many people do not have access to health care and live in conditions that spread disease.
~Robert Alan

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
~ Henri-Frederic Amiel

World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners -- governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike -- to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.
~ Kofi Annan

A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.
 ~ Dr. Walden Bello

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
~ Gro Brundtland

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
~ Larry Dossey  

 

Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
~ Bill Drayton