Health Quotes: Inspiring Wellness & Healing Nuggets

"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

Tony Dungy, Coach

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

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned"

Judith Viorst, Author

"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

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

Og Mandino, Author

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"The wish for healing has always been half of health"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"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, Politician

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint"

Mark Twain, Author

"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education"

John Bruton, Politician

"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health"

Carol Alt, Model

"High-quality food is better for your health"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"I've always enjoyed poor health"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

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