148 Inspirational Quotes About Getting Healthy

"Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It's about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them."

- Kristi Ling

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

- Morgan Spurlock

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"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

"The First wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Dr. Kenneth Cooper

"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

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

- Karen Salmansohn

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

- Heather Morgan

"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

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

- Bonnie Pfiester

"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

"The greatest wealth is health."

- Virgil

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

- Felicity Luckey

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

- Hippocrates

"The groundwork for all happiness is good health."

- Leigh Hunt

"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

"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

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

- Buddha

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

- Edward Stanley

"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

"With every act of self-care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: 'I am on my side, I am on my side, each day I am more and more on my own side."

- Susan Berry

"It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It's necessary."

- Mandy Hale

"Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel."

- Eleanor Brownn

"Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body."

- Golda Poretsky

"How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth. So we must care for ourselves in every way, every day."

- Sam Owen

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

- Maxime Lagacé

"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

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

- Herophilus

"Happiness is the highest form of health."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Julius Erving

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Charles F. Glassman

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A healthy outside starts from the inside."

- Robert Urich

"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

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

- Eleanor Brownn

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

- Richard Davidson

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- A.J. Reb Materi

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Richard Baker

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

- Kenneth H. Cooper

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

- Caroline Myss

"Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Self-care is how you take your power back."

- Lalah Delia

"When you say 'yes' to others make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself."

- Paul Klee

"Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause."

- Cecilia Tran

"When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life."

- Jean Shinoda Bolen

"Accept yourself. Love yourself as you are. Your finest work, your best movements, your joy, peace, and healing comes when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self-love. Roll in it. Bask in it as you would sunshine."

- Melody Beattie

"You are a VIP, a very important person. So take care with self-care. If not you, who? If not now, when?"

- Toni Hawkins

"The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself."

- Bryant McGill

"When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits –anything that kept me small."

- Kim McMilllen

"Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life."

- Arthur Ciaramicoli

"Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable."

- Jackie Viramontez

"Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort."

- Deborah Day

"The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people ... The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be."

- Warren Buffett

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity."

- Melody Beattie

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."

- Barbara de Angelis

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk –essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself."

- Steve Maraboli

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes –including you."

- Anne Lamott

"When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives."

- Kristin Neff

"In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel 'burnout' setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective."

- Dalai Lama

"Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."

- Karl Lagerfeld

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."

- Etty Hillesum

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

"Acknowledge, accept, and honor that you deserve your own deepest compassion and love."

- Nanette Mathews

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

- La Rochefoucauld

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

- Aldous Huxley

"Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you."

- Susan Kennedy

"Self-discipline is self-caring."

- M. Scott Peck

"The only person you shouldn't be able to live without is you."

- Chris McGeown

"Love yourself first and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Tom Stoppard

"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

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

"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

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

- Voltaire

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Glenn Close

"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

"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

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

- Virginia Woolf

"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."

- Buddha

"Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch."

- Parker Palmer

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

- Errick McAdams

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

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

- Joshua Holtz

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face."

- Helen Keller

"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

"People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness."

- Sanaya Roman

"When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do."

- John O'Donohue

"When we self-regulate well, we are better able to control the trajectory of our emotional lives and resulting actions based on our values and sense of purpose."

- Amy Mercree

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Albert Einstein

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."

- Marie Curie

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A. A. Milne

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk."

- Tony Robbins

"The secret to a happy life is to accept change gracefully."

- Jimmy Stewart

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future."

- Alice Walker

"We must be our own before we can be another's."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

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

- Moliere

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- John Steinbeck

"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

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

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

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept."