Inspiring Health Quotes to Motivate Your Wellness Journey

"The greatest wealth is health."

- Virgil

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

- World Health Organization

"Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live"

- Jim Rohn

"The first wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wellness is the complete integration of body mind and spirit."

- Greg Anderson

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The groundwork of all happiness is health."

- Leigh Hunt

"A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings."

- James Allen

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."

- Deepak Chopra

"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life."

- Marilu Henner

"Happiness lies first of all in health."

- George William Curtis

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of the dynamic and creative intellectual activity"

- John F. Kennedy

"There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset."

- Arlen Specter

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

- Billy Graham

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

- Gautama Buddha

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."

- Hippocrates

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."

- Hippocrates

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"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

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Dr. Mark Hyman

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel."

- Eleanor Brownn

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patients in care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

- Thomas Edison

"To do what nobody else will do, in a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through…that is what it is to be a nurse."

- Rawsi Williams, RN

"Our health care workers are the heroes of the Covid-19 response."

- Vivek Murthy

"Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being."

- Greg Anderson

"It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly."

- Stephen Ambrose

"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of these two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here."

- Donald Berwick

"Wellness encompasses a healthy body, a sound mind, and a tranquil spirit. Enjoy the journey as you strive for wellness."

- Laurette Gagnon Beaulieu

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

- Mark Halperin

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

- Alessandra Ambrosio

"Nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water."

- Flying Hawk

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service to others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you."

- Joyce Meyer

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

- John Muir

"The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually."

- Greg Anderson

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

- Bella Bleue

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Health is not valued till sickness comes."

- Thomas Fuller

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient."

- Francis Peabody, American physician

"Patients don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Happiness is the highest form of health."

- Dalai Lama

"A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health."

- Dalai Lama

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

"Your body hears everything your mind says."

- Naomi Judd

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"If you want something bad enough, go get it"

- Tiger Woods

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life"

- Steve Jobs

"You are never too old to set new goals or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied."

- Herophilus

"You can’t put a limit on how much you can improve and how much you can do. There are no limits on what you can be, or what you can do, except the limits you place on yourself."

- Brian Tracy

"It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results."

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Felicity Luckey

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The groundwork for all happiness is good health."

- Leigh Hunt

"In order for things to change, we must first be willing to let go of our old ways."

- Ken Keyes, JR

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Arabian Proverb

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It’s not coincidence that four of the six letter in health are heal."

- Ed Northstrum

"Well-being is about the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the vibrancy of our physical health, and the pride we take in what we have contributed to our communities. Most importantly, it’s about how these five elements interact."

- Tom Rath

"Health is a state of body. Wellness is a state of being."

- J. Stanford

"Health is a relationship between you and your body."

- Terri Guillemets

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

- Arabian Proverb

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- World Health Organization

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"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

"Wellness is a connection of paths: knowledge and action."

- Joshua Holtz

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

- Bonnie Pfiester

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Dr. Mark Hyman

"No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body."

- Dr. Harvey Cushing

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Jim Rohn

"There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management, and periodic exams."

- Kenneth H. Cooper

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

- Richard Baker

"You are what you eat."

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

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

- Hippocrates

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Moliere

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Dr. Mark Hyman

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Heather Morgan

"Don’t ask why healthy food is so expensive. Ask why junk food is so cheap."

- Nutrition Snob

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Karen Salmansohn

"A healthy outside starts from the inside."

- Robert Urich

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

- La Rochefoucauld

"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

"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

"The groundwork for all happiness is health."

- Leigh Hunt

"The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind."

- Richard Davidson

"There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business."

- Vikram Patel

"The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve."

- Charles F. Glassman

"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness."

- Louise Hart

"A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health."

- Kate Middleton

"A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere."

- Wayne Dyer

"Mental health can be just as important as physical health – and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses."

- Michael Greger

"We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising."

- Dr. Kenneth Cooper

"While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes."

- Dr. Mark Hyman

"Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind."

- Nelson Mandela

"The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy."

- Kenneth H. Cooper

"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."

- Abraham Maslow

"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional and mental states."

- Caroline Myss

"Most of us think we don’t have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don’t have time not to. We’re talking about three to six hours a week – or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 – 165 hours of the week."

- Stephen Covey

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basic of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."

- John F. Kennedy

"A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs."

- Joan Welsh

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

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

- Buddha

"I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health."

- Voltaire

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

- A.J. Reb Materi

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

- Edward Stanley

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

- Errick McAdams

"Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Morgan Spurlock

"What mental health needs are more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation."

- Glenn Close

"A sad soul can be just as lethal as a germ."

- John Steinbeck

"It’s not until you get tired that you see how strong you really are."

- Shaun T

"People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter."

- James J. Walsh

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"It is not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind."

- Aisha Mirza

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

- Richard Baker

"Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character."

- Pastor Rick Warren

"If you want a relaxed body, you can do it by relaxing your mind. If you want a relaxed mind, relax your body."

- Jay Winner

"Keep your vitality. A life without health is like a river without water."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Remain calm, because peace equals power."

- Joyce Meyer

"A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time — pills or stairs."

- Joan Welsh

"Half the costs of illness are wasted on conditions that could be prevented."

- Dr. Joseph Pizzorno

"Make eating fruits and vegetables a priority. This is so simple and beneficial, yet most people don’t do it."

- Nia Shanks

"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."

- Damon Wayans

"If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end."

- Julius Erving

"They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"I am a doctor— it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect, and willingness to help all other people."

- Ewa Kopacz

"The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life; the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician."

- William J. Mayo

"The awe of discovering the human body. The honor of being trusted to give advice. The gratitude for helping someone through a difficult illness. These things never grow old."

- Danielle Ofri

"It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has."

- William Osler

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days."

- George Michael

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

- Joseph Campbell

"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided."

- Paracelsus

"Health is not valued until sickness comes."

- Thomas Fuller

"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."

- Epictetus

"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."

- Norman Cousins

"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind."

- Paracelsus

"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."

- Thomas Dekker

"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work."

- Ralph Marston

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

- Tom Stoppard

"You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae."

- Paul Walker

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."

- Walter Cronkite

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

- Og Mandino

"Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

- William Penn

"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially."

- Denzel Washington

"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people."

- Fred Rogers

"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."

- Joseph Addison

"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"

- Chanakya

"I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet."

- James Taylor

"Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a lot of pressure for people. But honestly, I think as long as someone is healthy, that is most important."

- Jennifer Lopez

"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

"I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me."

- Pedro Martinez

"It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else."

- Phil McGraw

"The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care."

- Philip Sidney

"I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy."

- Ann Bancroft

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention."

- Tom Harkin

"Health consists with temperance alone."

- Alexander Pope

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not"

- Mark Twain

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

- Oscar Wilde

"I stand in awe of my body."

- Henry David Thoreau

"In order to achieve the impossible, one must first try the absurd."

- Fernando Pessoa

"Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone."

- Lisa Olivera

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

- Oprah

"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker than a germ."

- John Steinbeck

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."

- Clara Barton

"Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."

- Anne Wilson Schaef

"If you know the art of deep breathing, you have the strength, wisdom and courage of ten tigers."

- Chinese adage

"Teachers and nurses get the best seats in heaven."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself."

- Giorgio Baglivi

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

- Tom Stoppard

"We can’t control the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sails."

- Jimmy Dean

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

- Helen Keller

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

- William Shakespeare

"The body is a sacred garment."

- Martha Graham

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"I am among those who think that science has great beauty."

- Marie Curie

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"One of the hallmarks of social wellness is being inclusive, not exclusive, with our friendship."

- Laurie Buchanan

"Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each."

- Henry George

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."

- George Washington

"Give your love to all, trust in the team to which you are joined, and do not do wrong to others for your own self-gratification."

- Byron Pulsifer

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

- Carl Jung

"A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health."

- Ellen G. White

"You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in."

- Dr. Seuss

"I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves."

- Anthony Hopkins

"If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters."

- Robin Wright

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."

- Plato

"My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones."

- Kiana Tom

"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it."

- Thomas Sowell

"I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral."

- Keith Richards

"You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'"

- Abe Lemons

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"A year from now, you will wish you had started today."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Laughing decreases blood pressure and increases blood flow."

"You are the only one who can limit your greatness."

- Unknown

"The mind and body are not separate. What affects one, affects the other."

- Unknown

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book."

"In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired"

"If it doesn’t challenge you it won’t change you."

"No matter how hard life gets, never give up on yourself."

"Consistency is more important than perfection."

"The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen."

- Anonymous

"Every workout is progress."

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

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

"Create healthy habits, not restrictions."

"If you still look good at the end of your workout, you didn’t train hard enough."

"You can’t control what goes on outside, but you can control what goes on inside."

"True happiness comes from within."