50 Inspirational Quotes for a Healthy Lifestyle: Motivation to Thrive

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

- Buddha

"The greatest wealth is health."

- Virgil

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

- Jim Rohn

"The first wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Richard Davidson

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

- Bella Bleue

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

- Mark Hyman

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

- Arabian Proverb

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

- World Health Organization

"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

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

- Errick McAdams

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

- Dalai Lama

"The groundwork for all happiness is health."

- Leigh Hunt

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

- Ann Wigmore

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

- Deepak Chopra

"You are what you eat."

- Ancient Chinese proverb

"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

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

- Mark Halperin

"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

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

- Kenneth H. Cooper

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Dr Kenneth Cooper

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

- Hippocrates

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Albert Einstein

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Alessandra Ambrosio

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Ed Northstrum

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

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

- Bonnie Pfiester

"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

"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

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

- Heather Morgan

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

- Glenn Close

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

- Caroline Myss

"Happiness is the highest form of health."

- Dalai Lama

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Fitness is not about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be."

- Khloe Kardashian

"I hate every minute of training. But I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Fred Devito

"You’re only one workout away from a good mood."

- Health Coach Maria Marlowe

"You can have results or excuses, but not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Arthur Ashe

"A rested body is a healthy one."

- Health Coach, Jessica Sepel

"Self-care is about giving the world the best of you, not what’s left of you."

- Marissa Palmer, Health Coach

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"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

"Fitness isn’t about building a better body. It’s about building a better life."

- Jillian Michaels

"Even though you really don’t feel like you’re motivated to go to the gym, remember how good you felt after the last time you went. Keep that in the forefront of your brain."

- Bob Harper

"Fitness isn’t a destination, it’s a lifelong journey of self-love, self-care and self-discovery."

- Katrina Scott

"Discipline is remembering what you want most. Not what you want now."

- Billy Blanks

"You will always be challenged in this life. How you go about the conversations in your head is the only thing that will save you. The conversation is always more difficult than the challenge itself."

- Melissa Alcantara aka FitGurlMel

"Anything in life is possible if you make it happen."

- Jack Lalanne

"There is no quick, easy way to the body you want. Commit yourself now to your workout and get started."

- Tracy Anderson

"Failure isn’t diving on your face or hitting rock bottom. That is being human. You only fail when you decide not to try again."

- Kayla Itsines

"Know that what seems really hard today, with good practice and consistency, will be a piece of cake later."

- Massy Arias

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

- Sun Tzu

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them."

- Jack Canfield

"A healthy outside starts from the inside."

- Robert Urich

"Exercise is king, nutrition is queen. Together you have a kingdom."

- Jack LaLanne

"The best thing you can do for your body is to keep your stress level low."

- Dr. David B. Agus

"The best form of exercise is the one you'll do."

- Dr. Kenneth Cooper

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

- Voltaire

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

- Michael Pollan

"Food is not just fuel, it's information. It talks to your DNA and tells it what to do."

- Dr. Mark Hyman

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

- Julius Erving

"What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow."

- Jay Cutler

"Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other."

- Joseph Addison

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

- Oprah

"Don’t say ‘I can’t,’ say ‘I presently struggle with.’"

- Tony Horton

"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

"A fresh start isn’t a new place, it’s a new mindset."

- Erin Taylor, Health Coach

"Motivate the mind and set your body free."

- Shaun Thompson

"In order to master aliveness—in life and in business—we must let go of the habit of being stopped."

- Carey Peters

"The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel."

- Lou Ferrigno

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- J. Stanford

"A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul."

- Jillian Michaels

"One thing that does seem to be clear is that health and happiness are connected, more so than we’re often aware."

- Bobby Duffy

"When you focus on your health, you awaken your creativity. By creativity I don’t mean painting or drawing, I mean the ability to conceive your life exactly the way you most want it."

- Stacey Morgenstern

"A well-built physique is a status symbol. It reflects you worked hard for it, no money can buy it. You cannot inherit it. You cannot steal it. You cannot borrow it."

- Pauline Nordine

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The human body is the best work of art."

- Jess C. Scott

"Constant deprivation is no way to live. Don’t always skip the delicious stuff for raw carrots and brown rice."

- Gunnar Peterson

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

- Herophilus

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!"

- Marvin Phillips

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you’ve got to squeeze your buns. That’s my formula."

- Richard Simmons

"First we form habits then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you."

- Dr. Rob Gilbert

"Today, many will choose to free themselves from the personal imprisonment of their bad habits. Why not you?"

- Steve Maraboli

"Positive habits, positive attitudes and positive results will follow if we just keep going in the right direction."

- Steve Maraboli

"All people are the same; only their habits differ."

- Confucius

"Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, but much more rewarding."

- Harvey MacKay

"In just three weeks, I retrained my brain and heart to allow generosity to take full effect in my life."

- Jayson Linford

"Our memory is just a habit, and habits can be improved with the right kind of training and practice."

- Kevin Horsley

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

- Plato

"The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness that is held by a man in his mind."

- Hazrat Khan

"Learning to love is a process. It starts from a decision."

- Health Coach, Tara Wang

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

- Anonymous

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

- Tom Stoppard

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

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

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Make happen what you want to happen. Nothing will happen naturally until you make it happen."

- Unknown

"One way to break negative mind chatter is to replace it with positive affirmations."

- Unknown

"You are what you eat, so don't be fast, cheap, easy, or fake."

"Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday."

- Unknown

"The secret of completing habits is consistency and dedication."

- Unknown

"Health is not a destination, it's a journey."

- Unknown

"Fitness is not about being better than someone else. It's about being better than you used to be."

- Unknown

"A healthy mind in a healthy body."

"Eat clean, train dirty."

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

"Consistency is more important than perfection."

"Create healthy habits, not restrictions."

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

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

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

- Unknown

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

"A daily routine of healthy habits is the key to a successful life."

- Unknown

"Good habits are hard to form but easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form but hard to live with."

- Unknown