Quotes About Health, Wellness, and Your Body
Use these inspiring quotes to stay motivated on your journey to better health!
“Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.”
— Unknown
“By choosing healthy over skinny, you are choosing self-love over self-judgment.”
— Steve Maraboli
“Being a healthy woman isn’t about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters - on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.”
— Michelle Obama
“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”
— Doug Larson
“Seek to be whole, not perfect.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
— Jim Rohn
“Health is a relationship between you and your body.”
— Terri Guillemets
“Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Health is wealth.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.”
— Beyonce
“Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.”
— Astrid Alauda
“Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everybody.”
— Unknown
“The secret to living well is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.”
— Tibetan proverb
“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.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“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 we take good care of ourselves, we help everyone.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
— World Health Organization
“Health is like money. We never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”
— Josh Billings
“You can enjoy life and be healthy at the same time.”
— Unknown
“Wellness, I came to realize, will not happen by accident. It must be a daily practice, especially for those of us who are more susceptible to the oppressiveness of the world.”
— Jenna Wortham
“Happiness is the highest form of health.”
— Dalai Lama
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
— Wayne Dyer
“The most healthy thing is to be true to your own self… but also, that you have a right to express what you see and what you feel and what you think. To be bold. To be as bold with your vision as you can possibly be.”
— Alice Walker
“Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.”
— Even Ensler
“It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.”
— Herophilus
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.”
— Thích Nhat Hanh
“Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.”
— Julia Child
“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”
— Robert Urich
“Every negative belief weakens the partnership between mind and body.”
— Deepak Chopra
“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.”
— Joyce Meyer
“The more we see health as a practice rather than as a problem to fix, the more we encourage the body’s natural potential to be healthy.”
— Aarti Patel
“Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.”
— Dalai Lama
“Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince.”
— Andrew Murphy
“Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy.”
— Unknown
“Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.”
— Jill Johnson
“Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush.”
— Glennon Doyle
“A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.”
— Joan Welsh
“You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.”
— Joan Rivers