Health Quotes

Health is wealth — every person who has ever been seriously ill will tell you that. These quotes cover physical health, mental health, wellness, prevention, and the daily habits that add up to a life with more energy and fewer regrets.

“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”

Herbert Spencer

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“The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.”

Betty White

“The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.”

Ron Wyden

“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

“The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.”

Thomas Frank

“One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.”

Alison Sweeney

“For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.”

Ron Wyden

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

Arlen Specter

“The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.”

Jimmy Carter

“The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

“If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.”

John Podhoretz

“Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?”

David Suzuki

“For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.”

Jean Paul

“Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.”

W. H. Auden

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