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Health Quotes

Updated: Mar 20, 2025

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

3 John 1:2


Choose the best. Habit will soon make it pleasant for you.

Pythagoras


Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Proverbs 3:7-8


The more we see health as a practice rather than as a problem to fix, the more we encourage the body’s natural potential to be healthy.

Aarti Patel


A healthy outside starts from the inside.

Warren Forrest


There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Henry David Thoreau


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

John Steinbeck


To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

William Londen


Joy is one of nature’s great medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

Catherine Ponder


Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

Joseph Addison


To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Seneca


Health is the reward of obedience to the laws of God.

Ellen G White


You deserve to enjoy food. You deserve to enjoy exercise. And you deserve to have a life that’s not revolved around those two things.

Zahra Biabani


Ellen G White


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

Thomas Carlyle

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Psalms 147:3


Courage, hope, faith, sympathy, love, promote health and prolong life. A contented mind, a cheerful spirit, is health to the body and strength to the soul.

Ellen G White


You can’t sin and have health and vitality at the same time.



My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Proverbs 4:20-22


The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with joy

Proverb


Don’t make a habit of choosing what feels good over what’s actually good for you.

Eric Thomas



We know that mindset and what we believe is one of the most powerful tools we have when it comes to upleveling our health. Yet, many of us do not take advantage of this. We focus on what we eat or how much we are exercising, but we rarely stop to evaluate our thoughts.

Mark Hyman


There comes a time when we need to stop pulling people out of the river, and go upstream and find out why they keep falling in

Desmond Tutu


Your diet, exercise routine and stress level lay the foundation for how you feel, so fuel your body with good nutrition, break a little sweat each day and set aside time to unwind. Because it’s hard to feel bad about a body you’re taking great care of.



Health is a relationship between you and your body.

Terri Guillemets


To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

William Londen


And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Exodus 23:25


Focus on health, energy, vitality – not weight.

Karen Salmansohn


The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it are sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.

Wayne Fields


Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well…and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.

James H West


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


A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

Ellen G White


The best doctors give the least medicine.

Benjamin Franklin


I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Joyce Meyer


Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill


A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.

Francis Bacon


Something better is the watchword…of all true living. Whatever Christ asks us to renounce, He offers in its stead something better.

Ellen G White


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


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

Jim Rohn


The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Thomas Jefferson


The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

Ellen G White


Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson


People spend their health to get their wealth, then their wealth to get their health.



Jesus was an earnest, constant worker. Never lived there among men another weighted with responsibilities…Yet his life was a life of health…In body as in soul He was an example of what God designed all humanity to be through obedience to His laws.

Ellen G White


If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

Exodus 15:26


Your body hears everything your mind says.

Naomi Judd


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

William Shakespeare


When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.

Chinese Proverb


It is exercise alone that supports the spirits and keeps the mind in vigour.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.

Catalan Proverb


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

Mark Halperin


A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

Ellen G White


Healthy cooking is the best preventive medicine.



If you work out, everything else will too.

Shella Leard


Your body is your house and if you don’t take care of it, you have to leave.

Tracy Owens


Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F Kennedy

2025

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