50+ Inspirational Quotes to Fuel Your Healthy Diet Journey

"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."

- Hippocrates

"Exercise is king; nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom."

- Jack LaLanne

"It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens."

- Jillian Michaels

"Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments."

- Bethenny Frankel

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food. Stay away from these."

- Michael Pollan

"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition."

- Thomas Edison

"Once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it."

- Simone Biles

"Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food."

- Hippocrates

"Came from a plant, eat it; was made in a plant, don't."

- Michael Pollan

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food."

- Hippocrates

"We are what we repeatedly eat. Healthy eating is not an act, but a habit."

- Felicity Luckey

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

- Steve Prefontaine

"Everything you need is within you."

- Shalane Flanagan

"All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all."

- Serena Williams

"Follow your dreams, work hard, practice, and persevere."

- Sasha Cohen

"Goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

- Michael Phelps

"I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals."

- Mia Hamm

"Life is about challenges and how we face up to them."

- Martina Navratilova

"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison."

- Ann Wigmore

"Healthy eating isn’t about counting fat grams, dieting, cleanses and antioxidants; it’s about eating food untouched from the way we find it in nature in a balanced way."

- Pooja Mottl

"All children should have the basic nutrition they need to learn and grow and to pursue their dreams, because, in the end, nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our children."

- Michelle Obama

"There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined"

- Marta

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

- Jesse Owens

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."

- Moliere

"It’s okay to struggle, but it’s not okay to give up on yourself or your dreams."

- Gabe Grunewald

"A healthy outside starts from the inside."

- Robert Urich

"Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it."

- Heather Morgan

"It's never too late to change old habits."

- Florence Griffith Joyner

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."

- G. K. Chesterton

"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."

- La Rochefoucauld

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Eating healthy food fills your body with energy and nutrients. Imagine your cells smiling back at you and saying: ‘Thank you!’"

- Karen Salmansohn

"If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight."

- Subodh Gupta

"If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food."

- Errick McAdams

"Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you’ll have a junk body."

- Jeanette Jenkins

"You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?"

- Julie Murphy

"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don’t eat."

- Gloria Swanson

"By choosing healthy over skinny, you are choosing self-love over self-judgment."

- Steve Maraboli

"Winning and losing isn't everything. Sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome."

- Alex Morgan

"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper."

- Adelle Davis

"We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food."

- Marcus Samuelsson

"The first wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I believe in eating real food."

- Martha Stewart

"Food is medicine, and the right kind of a relationship with food can make a positive impact on your health."

- Hayley Hobson

"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need."

- Ayurvedic Proverb

"Sorry, there’s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story."

- Morgan Spurlock

"To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."

- Buddha

"Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health."

- Julia Child

"Those who have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find the time for illness."

- Edward Stanley

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

- Virginia Woolf

"You can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet."

- Dr. Mark Hyman

"It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day —that’s the hard part. But it does get easier."

- Bojack Horseman

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

"What most people don’t realize is that food is not just calories; it’s information. It actually contains messages that connect to every cell in the body."

- Dr. Mark Hyman

"Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want."

- Alessandra Ambrosio

"Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries."

- Mark Halperin

"Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy."

- Bella Bleue

"It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind."

- Steve Maraboli

"Creating an overall healthy lifestyle for yourself doesn’t require a radical diet or significant life change. In fact, it can be attained through common sense decisions about the way we eat, move, and live."

- Harley Pasternak

"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

"Good nutrition and vitamins do not directly cure disease; the body does. You provide the raw materials and the inborn wisdom of your body makes the repairs."

- Andrew W. Saul

"Those who think they have no time for healthy eating, will sooner or later have to find time for illness."

- Edward Stanley

"Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food."

- John H. Tobe

"To change our eating habits, we must learn to eat mindfully, being more aware of chewing and tasting what we eat so that the brain can register the incoming nutrients."

- John M. Poothullil

"One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well, if one has not dined well."

- Virginia Woolf

"By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity."

- David H. Murdock

"Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout."

- Summer Sanders

"To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness and maintain an interest in life."

- William Londen

"Health is like money. We never have a true idea of its value until we lose it."

- Josh Billings

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health."

- A.J. Reb Materi

"Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live."

- Jim Rohn

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you."

- Deepak Chopra

"Today is your day to start fresh, to eat right, to train hard, to live healthy, to be proud."

- Bonnie Pfiester

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense."

- Ellen Page

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

- World Health Organization

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."

- Arabian Proverb

"The greatest wealth is health."

- Virgil

"When Britney Spears said “you want a hot body? .. look hot in a bikini? You better work bitch” I was like truuuue true."

- Britney Spears

"By cleansing your body on a regular basis and eliminating as many toxins as possible from your environment, your body can begin to heal itself, prevent disease, and become stronger and more resilient than you ever dreamed possible!"

- Dr. Edward Group III

"I don’t think I’ll ever grow old and say, ‘What was I thinking eating all those fruits and vegetables?’"

- Nancy S. Mure

"Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being."

- Nhat Hanh

"When you start eating foods without labels, you no longer need to count calories."

- Amanda Kraft

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

- Oscar Wilde

"A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

- Tom Stoppard

"My favorite thing to do is eat, and eat well."

- Lena Olin

"The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system."

- Robert C. Peale

"Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."

- Anthony Bourdain

"People who love to eat are always the best people."

- Julia Child

"The produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician."

- Meryl Streep

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"Our bodies are our gardens; our wills are our gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The number isn’t the goal, the *lifestyle* is the goal."

"It takes 4 weeks for you to see changes, 8 weeks for your family and friends, and 12 for the whole world to see."

"Say no once in the grocery store so you don’t have to say it hundreds of times a day at home."

"I’d rather be uncomfortable for 45 minutes a day than be uncomfortable in my body for the rest of my life."

"Exercising is hard, but so is being unhealthy. Choose your hard."

"If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it."

"If other people can do it, there’s no reason that I can’t too."

"It’s ok to fall off the wagon, but you don’t have to roll around in the dirt. Consistency is better than perfection, so if you have an overly indulgent day, it doesn’t mean you have to throw the whole week, month, etc out the window. Get back up and try again."

"Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good. Or if it’s worth doing it’s worth doing badly. Even if today wasn’t great (an extra junk snack or something) tomorrow can be better and will be much worse if you wallow. So you ate the donut at least you stopped at one. Next time you might stop at half the donut."

"For losing weight: make the right choice the easiest one (meal prep, leave gym clothes out night before etc) For weight lifting: it's meant to be hard (over and over hahah)"

"My personal motto for weigh lifting is: "I can't let myself from last time do better than me!", been beating that dude ass from months now"

"Even a bad workout is still a workout."

"No one regrets a workout once they get it in."

"Question: What do you do if you're in a hole? Answer: Stop digging."

"What gets measured gets managed."

"If you eat it, own it."

"If you bite it, write it."

"A year ago you'll wish you'd have started today."

"The time will pass anyway."

"Hunger is not an emergency."

"The food will still be there tomorrow."

"Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everybody."

"Being healthy is a success that many people forget to celebrate."