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Quotes About Health

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson, 1984
Life goes faster on protein.
~ Martin H. Fischer
The truth is, that the craving for exercise is a part of healthy human nature.
~ E. Warre, 1884
Reflect first upon that great law of our nature, that exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
~ Hugh Blair (1718–1800)
The desire of activity is designed by nature to promote our physical well-being. Physical activity is the law of physical health.
~ Edward Brooks, 1882
Commit to be fit.
~ Author Unknown
The need for exercise is one of the numerous sensations which lead living beings to perform actions necessary for the preservation of life or of health.
~ Fernand Lagrange, 1889
Things seem to work out better all around when I'm working out.
~ Terri Guillemets
Moderate exercise is indispensable; exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
~ Socrates
Let exercise alternate with rest.
~ Pythagoras
There is no doubt that physical activity is the basis of efficient functioning of the human mechanism, both physical and mental.
~ Uttar Pradesh, 1885
A man may take as much exercise in walking a mile up and down stairs, as in ten on level ground.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He who has a weak constitution becomes stronger by manual exercise than a robust man without it.
~ Xenophon
Exercise is essential to the health of the whole body; it increases the circulation and the power of breathing, and stimulates every part of the body to a good healthy growth.
~ Winfred E. Baldwin, 1896
He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well.
~ English proverb
If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both.
~ Francis Quarles
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow.
~ German proverb
Dieters live life in the fasting lane.
~ Author Unknown
There are nearly forty-six miles of nerves in the human body, and fibromyalgia, you get on every single inch of them.
~ Author Unknown
People think those with fibromyalgia are just faking it. Actually, they've got it backwards — we're faking being well.
~ Author Unknown
I only get one life, and I will not let fibromyalgia take the joy from living it.
~ Morgan Freeman
Fibromyalgia is a pain in the neck — and my shoulders, head, elbows, knees, back, hips, feet... sometimes even my hair hurts.
~ Internet meme
Keep temperate diet, use moderate exercise, observe seasonable and set hours for rest: let the end of thy first sleep raise thee from thy repose: Then hath thy body the best temper; then hath thy soul the least encumbrance; then no noise shall disturb thine ear, no object shall divert thine eye.
~ Francis Quarles, 1640