World Health Quotes:

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

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Believe, Giving, Healthy, World Health

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Freedom, World Health, Global Health

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

- Charles Simmons

topic: Health, Law, Vengeance, Living Healthy, World Health

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

- Martial

topic: Health, Alive, Life Is, Ayurveda, Fitness Motivational

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Real, Health, Healthy Living, Spiritual Health

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

- Epictetus

topic: Fitness, Heart, Soul, Parts Of The Body, World Health

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Death, Sex, Drinking, World Health, Funny Smoking

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Health, Healthy, Healthy Living, Living Healthy

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

topic: Pain, Health, Suffering, Pain And Suffering, World Health

Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.

- Bertrand Piccard

source: Twitter post from Mar 26, 2016

topic: Health, Space, Quality, Pioneering, World Health

A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

- Danny Hillis

topic: Health, Cells, Sick, World Health

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

- Hippocrates

source: Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

topic: Wise, Food, Blessing, Healthy Eating, World Health

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Running, Husband, Health, World Health

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Hate, Health, World Health

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

- Julie Bishop

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Believe, Healthy Living, Physical Fitness

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

- Josette Sheeran

topic: Children, Health, Two Year Olds, World Health

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Health, Government, People, Darfur, World Health

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

- Norman Cousins

source: Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

topic: Recovery, Drug, Care, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

source: "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

topic: Tired, Sick, Being Sick, Big Book, Just For Today

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

source: "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 48), September 19, 2006.

topic: Mind, Body, Spirit, Healthy Living, Spiritual Health

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

- Annette Funicello

topic: Health, Second Chance, Single Relationship, World Health

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

- Ernie J Zelinski

topic: Funny, Bed, Dull, Inspirational Health, Early Bird

Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Country, Strong, Motivation, World Health

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

- Doug Larson

topic: Food, Vegetables, Green, Spiritual Health, I Love Food

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

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Fitness, Inspirational Health, Inspirational Health And Fitness

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Health, Marijuana, Destiny, World Health

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

- Redd Foxx

topic: Funny, Crazy, Lying, World Health, Health And Wellness

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Wise, Money, 4th Of July, Spiritual Health, Inspirational Health

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

- Josh Billings

topic: Inspirational, Fitness, Time, Inspirational Health, Inspirational Health And Fitness

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

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Health, Soundness, Inspirational Body

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Happiness, Health, Doctors, Repose, World Health

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

- Tom Stoppard

source: "There Will Always be a Tree". Book by Jerry S. Beall, 2010.

topic: Positive, Attitude, Inspiration, My Attitude, Great Attitude

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Funny Inspirational, Children, Food, Inspirational Health, Favorite Foods

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Fitness, Health, Thinking, Inspirational Health, Wellness And Fitness

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

- Paul Dudley White

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Health, Healthy Habits, Spiritual Health

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Being Happy, Health, Needs, Inspirational Health, Living Healthy

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Life, Sarcastic, Inspirational Health, Book Reading

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

- Jimmy Carter

source: "Jimmy Carter on Eradicating the Guinea Worm 'This Horrible, Obnoxious Disease'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. December 17, 2010.

topic: Government, Organization, World, World Health, World Health Organization

Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.

- Charles Krauthammer

source: "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

topic: Get Well, Organization, World, Swine, Swine Flu

Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including those in which there has been no immunization. The decline began long before vaccination was developed. There is certainly no guarantee that vaccination will protect a child against the disease; in fact, over 30,000 cases of diphtheria have been recorded in the United Kingdom in fully immunized children.

- Leon Chaitow

source: Leon Chaitow (2011). “Vaccination And Immunisation: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives (What Every Parent Should Know)”, p.71, Random House

topic: Country, Children, Guarantees That, Immunization, World Health

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Country, Cancer, Mean, World Health, World Health Organization

In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

- Peter Singer

topic: Mean, Average, Organization, World Health, World Health Organization

The World Health Organization is now studying Russia's experience, i.e. how we managed to produce tangible results in such a short time

- Veronika Skvortsova

topic: Russia, Organization, World, World Health, World Health Organization

The reality is, cellphones have to be used safely. They are today like cars and trucks - we can't live without them, but we certainly wouldn't give a car or truck to a toddler to drive. Why are we thinking it's perfectly okay to give a device that the World Health Organization has said is a "possible human carcinogen" to infants and toddlers, and for that matter, schoolchildren?

- Devra Davis

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Reality, Thinking, Organization, Cellphone, World Health

With world health, every life you save is a wonderful thing, so it's not this question of whether you solve it or you don't. The chance of completely solving the problems has long odds. But really, the thing is that you get to save the first child, the second child, the third child. You can just feel good about that.

- Bill Gates

topic: Long Odds, World Health

I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has given me the opportunity to insist that strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: World Health, World Health Organization, Contraceptives

The fact is, some of the most respected scientific bodies in the world, including Codex Alimentarius (jointly run by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations), the American Medical Association, the British Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association, have stated that more research needs to be done on GMOs through premarket safety assessments before we can truthfully determine their safety.

- Zoe Lister-Jones

source: "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

topic: Running, Assessment, Organization, World Health, World Health Organization