Health Quotes

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - Enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

Author Unknown

The average, healthy, well - Adjusted adult gets up at seven - Thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Jean Ke

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Robert F. Bennett

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

English Prove

What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

Barbara Colorose

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Og Mandino

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".

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

Og Mandino

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks".

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

M. Scott Peck

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

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

Albert Schweitze

National Health Insurance: The compassion of the IRS The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!

Seen on a bumper sticke

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

C. C. Colton

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Robert Elwood Bly

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.

Katherine Mansfield

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

Hilaire Belloc

I row after health like a waterman...

Jonathan Swift

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

Sir John Lubbock

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.

Sydney Smith

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

Redd Foxx

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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

John Dewey