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.

“We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.”

Benjamin Carson

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“With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.”

Ron Wyden

“We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.”

Michael Bloomberg

“Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?”

Rush Limbaugh

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

William Penn

“Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”

Thomas Fuller

“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”

Lao Tzu

“When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.”

Ron Wyden

“Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.”

Andrew Weil

“There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.”

Jeffrey Kluger

“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

“I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.”

Sherri Shepherd

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

John Locke

“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”

Theodor Adorno

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