Health quotes

Health

1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

1K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside health — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Quote collection

Health quotes (page 9 of 53)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Hippocrates Physician
Health

"The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed."

Read quote 11 likes
Ernest Hemingway Novelist
Health

"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."

Read quote 10 likes
Ali Vincent Reality TV Star, Author
Health

"You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day."

Read quote 10 likes
Angela Davis Political Activist, Scholar
Health

"in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others."

Read quote 10 likes
Aristotle Philosopher
Health

"Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies."

Read quote 10 likes
Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
Health

"Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?"

Read quote 10 likes
Rose Kennedy Socialite
Health

"Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none."

Read quote 10 likes
Moliere Playwright, Actor
Health

"I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money."

Read quote 10 likes
Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Health

"Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature."

Read quote 9 likes
Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Health

"One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations."

Read quote 9 likes
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Health

"When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands."

Read quote 9 likes