Top 100 A Health Quotes

#1. If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years.

Michael J. McGuire

#2. The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

Betty Friedan

#3. We're saying the story doesn't end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason.

Jamie Tworkowski

#4. Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

Democritus

#5. Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.

Auliq Ice

#6. Lack of time is a real health killer.

Marilu Henner

#7. You are in good shape for a dead man.

Mario Stinger

#8. The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

M. Scott Peck

#9. But a yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. Your body is the child of the soul. You must nourish and train your child. Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. It has to be earned through sweat.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#10. Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

Phineas Quimby

#11. I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.

Eula Biss

#12. A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. There exists in every person a place that is free from disease, that never feels pain, that cannot age or die. When you go to this place, limitations which all of us accept, cease to exist. They are not even entertained as a possibility. This is the place called perfect health.

Deepak Chopra

#14. The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

William Styron

#15. You can't sculpt a pebble.

Scott Abel

#16. We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.

Dave Obey

#17. A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#18. Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Jennifer Armintrout

#19. It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.

Dave Obey

#20. Prolonged stress causes the human body to make adaptations so it can continue to serve you at a functional level. The more stress, the more adaptations.

Janet Gallagher Nestor

#21. Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.

Anthony Fauci

#22. We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance ... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

Joan D. Vinge

#23. I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Garamendi

#24. You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

Katie Couric

#25. Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a friend, for every child who has lost a parent, for every parent who has lost a child; for any suffering anywhere.

Sebastian Pole

#26. Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#27. If more men would see a story of what it was like to be pregnant, and how it felt to be in a place where you had to make a decision about whether to keep a pregnancy, maybe they would feel differently about women's health care.

Reese Witherspoon

#28. When the founding fathers conceived of this new nation, they understood that the education of its citizens would be essential to the health of their democratic enterprise. Knowledge was not just a luxury; it was essential.

Azar Nafisi

#29. Prison, a social protection? What monstrous mind ever conceived such an idea? Just as well say that health can be promoted by a widespread contagion!

Emma Goldman

#30. A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

Daniel Taylor

#31. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

Wendy Davis

#32. The plain white vinegar sold in gallon jugs in stores is particularly unsuitable for a health treatment, since it is made from petroleum and is completely synthetic.

Kim DeWalt

#33. I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence may lie before me. How am I to occupy it? What am I to do to fill the interval of time which spreads between me and the grave?

Charlotte Bronte

#34. For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

Paul A. Offit

#35. The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.

Dalai Lama XIV

#36. Life is a tragedy of nutrition

Arnold Ehret

#37. At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

Michael Pollan

#38. When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.

Ron Wyden

#39. I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

Herbie Mann

#40. The health care system in the United States, I'm sure you know, is a total international scandal. It's twice the per capita cost of comparable countries and one of the worst outcomes, with a huge number of people uninsured altogether. And it's going to get worse.

Noam Chomsky

#41. The most significant factor in an individual's ability to remain in good health may be a sense of control over the events of life, one psychologist has remarked.

Alfie Kohn

#42. Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.

David Perlmutter

#43. I wondered if what one normally calls "normal" was itself a sort of dullness, a deadening of sense and spirit, if not, indeed, a very closure of their doors. For myself, now, liberated, released, emergent from the dark night and abyss, there was an intoxication of light and love and health.

Oliver Sacks

#44. Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

John Shadegg

#45. I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.

Meghan Daum

#46. A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

Maimonides

#47. Just because you take gluten out of something doesn't make it a health food.

Chris Mohr

#48. There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Henry David Thoreau

#49. We do food every single day! Conscious Eating is a big step toward Conscious Living. Quality and Quantity of Food is directly related to our Health and state of mind. We can use food to help us recover from Stress and Disease. Not taking food seriously will eventually lead to Stress or/and Disease.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#50. I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#51. There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

Clayton M Christensen

#52. The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

John Shadegg

#53. A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

#54. I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

Euripides

#55. Permanent weight loss doesn't come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.

Jennifer Hudson

#56. Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine. (Hang on a minute and I'll get my sequins out and give you a quick rendition of 'My Way')

Julie Burchill

#57. Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Herbert Spencer

#58. Health is a habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

#59. I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

Davey Havok

#60. A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.

T. Colin Campbell

#61. I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

Pele

#62. Dancing daily is a good physical activity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.

Andrew Weil

#64. Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

Oliver Goldsmith

#65. At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit ... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

#66. SNSD means the coming of the era of girls, it's filled with hope. We wish to bring a generation of health and happiness.

Im Yoona

#67. And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

Julie Bishop

#68. We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

Hillary Clinton

#69. I understand you only too well, but Rachel's needs are no less important than your desire to be part of history. Find a balance. Happiness is like good health. You only miss it when it disappears.

Tariq Ali

#70. The secret o' health, happiness and success is deep breathing, buttermilk instead o' beer, your bedroom window open, a penny a week and a mind weel disciplined.

Neil Munro

#71. Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on stage in New York - not a brilliant career or I'd still be doing it - but I got enough work to keep my agent and my union health insurance.

Debra Dean

#72. We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

Michelle Obama

#73. HEALTHY EATING isn't about counting fat grams, dieting, cleanses, and antioxidants; Its about eating food untouched from the way we find it in nature in a balanced way; Whole foods give us all that we need to perfectly nourish ourselves.

Pooja Mottl

#74. Ish #303 It's a street food vendor! Stop asking for the health score rating.

Regina Griffin

#75. I'm doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#76. I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

John Adams

#77. My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Chiang Kai-shek

#78. Defeating depression is like playing the carnival game Whac-a-mole. You have to give it your all and be on target to beat that sucker down when it pops up again and again. If you pay attention, learn from your past efforts, and keep at it, you can win." -Mel. Edwards

Mel Edwards

#79. As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.

Richard Carmona

#80. We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

Liya Kebede

#81. Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Graham Chapman

#82. Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Marian Wright Edelman

#83. He Was not a health nut, was not out to mold himself a stylishly slim body. He did not live on nuts and berries; if the furnace was hot enough, anything would burn, even Big Macs.

John L. Parker Jr.

#84. Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

Jeff VanderMeer

#85. I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.

Robert Jarvik

#86. Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Deborah Palumbo

#87. Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

John Cornyn

#88. A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay

Marcia Carrington

#89. Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

Andrea Barrett

#90. Threats from the street may be potentially lethal, but the threat from the "enemy within" is a far worse hazard to a law officers health and wellbeing.

Steve Neal

#91. If I could bottle the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in a pill, it would become a blockbuster drug.

Rajiv Misquitta

#92. I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.

John James Audubon

#93. It is important to value the individual, to have good health, a loving family and good relationships, to have community ties, leisure pursuits. These are all part of our lives. It is important to keep all of our parts in working order.

Helen Lynch

#94. As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.

John Barrasso

#95. Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.

Glenn R. Schiraldi

#96. We're underscoring to everybody the promise at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, which is quality, affordable health care coverage available in a transparent marketplace for the first time ever.

Denis McDonough

#97. You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.

Barack Obama

#98. Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.

Wayne Dyer

#99. Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.

Kangana Ranaut

#100. I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit
not too strenuous, not too sedentary; trains and invigorates the mind.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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