Health famous quotes
04-23-2025
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson -
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
-- Adelle Davis -
Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.
-- Adelle Davis -
Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.
-- Alan Cohen -
All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
-- Albert Camus -
I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.
-- Albert Camus -
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert Einstein -
Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
-- Alexander Fleming -
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
-- Alexander the Great -
The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.
-- Ali Vincent -
Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.
-- Ali Vincent -
You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.
-- Ali Vincent -
When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.
-- Ali Vincent -
When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.
-- Ali Vincent -
You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.
-- Ali Vincent -
even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart -
We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart -
Every man's disease is his personal property.
-- Alonzo M. Clark -
No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal -
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
-- Andrew Weil -
in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.
-- Angela Davis -
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
-- Ann Landers -
The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison
-- Ann Wigmore -
When we learn to eat properly we begin to rebuild our bodies and to fulfill our purpose on this planet to grow in health, creativity, wisdom, and compassion.
-- Ann Wigmore -
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
-- Anna Quindlen -
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
-- Annette Funicello -
Love has the power to...cure, to heal, to calm, to change and to unite. Use this power often.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
-- Anthony Giddens -
Health, the greatest of all we count as blessings.
-- Ariphron -
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
-- Aristotle -
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.
-- Art Buchwald -
The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years ; and though I go from this heated theatre into the squares of the Hospital, in the severest winter nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold...
-- Astley Cooper -
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee -
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.
-- Avicenna -
Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.
-- Avicenna -
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.
-- Avicenna -
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
-- Bernard Baruch -
If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right.
-- Bernard Jensen -
The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.
-- Bernard Lown -
An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder.
-- Bernardino Ramazzini -
I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.
-- Bernardino Ramazzini -
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight...[We] ought to show peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts.
-- Bernardino Ramazzini -
The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.
-- Bernardino Ramazzini -
Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such that the circulation of the blood is retarded. Standing even for a short time proves exhausting compared with walking and running though it be for a long time ... Nature delights and is restored by alternating and varied actions.
-- Bernardino Ramazzini -
You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons. The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn't the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read "Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk"?
-- Bernie Siegel -
Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.
-- Bertrand Piccard -
At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.
-- Betty Shine -
Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
-- Bill Drayton -
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
-- Bill Walton -
I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.
-- Billy Childish -
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
-- Billy Graham -
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.
-- Brad Pitt -
True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.
-- Brandon Bays -
Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.
-- Brian Carter -
I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.
-- Brian Carter -
Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.
-- Brian Carter -
Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.
-- Bruce Feiler -
We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
-- Byron Katie -
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-- Carl Jung -
For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.
-- Carl Pfeiffer -
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.
-- Casper Van Dien -
Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body
-- Cesar Vichard de Saint-Real -
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
-- Charles Churchill -
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
-- Charles Lamb -
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
-- Charles Simmons -
In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.
-- Charles W. Pickering -
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
-- Christian D. Larson -
True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies.
-- Christiane Northrup -
The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway... it's a paradox.
-- Christiane Northrup -
Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.
-- Christiane Northrup -
Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
-- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland -
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.
-- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland -
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
-- Christopher Reeve -
Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.
-- Claudine Schneider
