Health is everything.
We take it for granted until we don’t have it anymore.
Here are 100 quotes about health from a variety of famous people, ranging from philosophers to leaders and health experts to inspire you to be more healthy:
- “Health is the greatest possession.” — Lao Tzu
- “To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” — Buddha
- “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “The first wealth is health.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.” — Arabian proverb
- “Health is not valued till sickness comes.” — Thomas Fuller
- “Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.” — Joseph Pilates
- “Happiness is the highest form of health.” — Dalai Lama
- “Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” — Josh Billings
- “A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.” — Naval Ravikant
- “The groundwork for all happiness is good health.” — Leigh Hunt
- “Your body hears everything your mind says.” — Naomi Judd
- “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” — Jim Rohn
- “Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” — Publilius Syrus
- “Eating healthy food fills your body with energy and nutrients. Imagine your cells smiling back at you and saying: ‘Thank you!’” — Karen Salmansohn
- “A healthy outside starts from the inside.” — Robert Urich
- “Wellness encompasses a healthy body, a sound mind, and a tranquil spirit. Enjoy the journey as you strive for wellness.” — Laurette Gagnon Beaulieu
- “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.” — Dutch proverb
- “Health is not just about what you’re eating. It’s also about what you’re thinking and saying.” — Unknown
- “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.” — Anne Wilson Schaef
- “Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.” — Hippocrates
- “True healthcare reform starts in your kitchen, not in Washington.” — Anonymous
- “To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.” — Gene Tunney
- “The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” — Plato
- “Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” — Ralph Marston
- “Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.” — Menander
- “Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” — Franklin P. Adams
- “I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” — Joyce Meyer
- “Prevention is better than cure.” — Desiderius Erasmus
- “Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” — Thomas Dekker
- “Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” — Denis Waitley
- “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
- “The mind and body are not separate. what affects one, affects the other.” — Unknown
- “My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.” — Leslie Grimutter
- “There is no diet that will do what eating healthy does. Skip the diet. Just eat healthy.” — Unknown
- “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” — Winston Churchill
- “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” — Thomas Edison
- “If you’re too busy to workout, your priorities need to change. I can’t think of too many things more important than your health.” — Rolsey
- “Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.” — Joseph Addison
- “Nurturing yourself is not selfish – it’s essential to your survival and your well-being.” — Renee Peterson Trudeau
- “Self-care is how you take your power back.” — Lalah Delia
- “What you eat literally becomes you. You have a choice in what you’re made of.” — Anonymous
- “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “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
- “Health is the crown on the well person’s head that only the ill person can see.” — Robin Sharma
- “Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.” — Seneca
- “When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.” — Herophilus
- “You can’t control what goes on outside, but you CAN control what goes on inside.” — Unknown
- “A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” — Spanish Proverb
- “If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?” — Unknown
- “The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.” — Unknown
- “Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” — Edward Stanley
- “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
- “Mainstream medicine would be way different if they focused on prevention even half as much as they focused on intervention.” — Anonymous
- “Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” — William Shakespeare
- “The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.” — Robert C. Peale
- “The body loves routine. Try to eat, sleep, and so on at the same time every day in order to promote a healthy mind and body.” — Unknown
- “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” — Jack LaLanne
- “Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.” — Unknown
- “Healthy does NOT mean starving yourself EVER. Healthy means eating the right food in the right amount”. — Karen Salmansohn
- “The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.” — Chinese Proverb
- “The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it are sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.” — Wayne Fields
- “If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.” — Errick McAdams
- “Health is a relationship between you and your body.” — Terri Guillemets
- “The greatest wealth is health.” — Virgil
- “If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
- “Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.” — Jim Rohn
- “You can’t enjoy wealth if you’re not in good health.” — Anonymous
- “Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” — Astrid Alauda
- “You don’t have to eat less, you just have to eat right.” — Unknown
- “In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.” — Unknown
- “Nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.” — Flying Hawk
- “The body is a sacred garment.” — Martha Graham
- “It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.” — Meryl Streep
- “Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.” — Albert Schweitzer
- “I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.” — Voltaire
- “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” — Doug Larson
- “To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” — William Londen
- “A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.” — John Steinbeck
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
- “The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.” — Hippocrates
- “It’s never too early or too late to work towards being the healthiest you.” — Unknown
- “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” — Paul Dudley White
- “Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.” — Anne Wilson Schaef
- “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint.” — Markus Herz
- “To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.” — Albert Schweitzer
- “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” — Buddha
- “You learn good health and family are it, and nothing else matters.” — Mike Adametz
- “The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.” — Philip Sydney
- “The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.” — Moliere
- “There’s nothing more important than our good health – that’s our principal capital asset.” — Arlen Specter
- “Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.” — Gene Tunney
- “Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.” — Carl Jung
- “What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.” — Unknown
Which is your favourite? Let me know in the comments below
