Health - Quotes & Sayings
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Denzel WashingtonThe root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.
Lawrence M. KraussThe wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
Leroy HoodIf our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
Tara BrachAll the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
Abraham MaslowEvery three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
Claire DanesThe way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.
Tom FriedenIf you are able to see the interrelatedness of mind and body, sensitivity towards your body becomes much sharper. Therefore, maintaining of good health also becomes easier.
Lobsang TenzinYou cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
Gro Harlem BrundtlandTo successfully lose weight after 40, you need to understand that imbalanced hormones and chemicals have a huge impact on your health. It is possible, however, to live a clean, healthy, and long life - with a slim body, even after 40!
Suzanne SomersThe specter of climate change threatens worsening natural disasters, rapid urbanization, forced migration, and economic hardship for the most vulnerable. Despite significant global advances, inability to effectively address epidemics and health emergencies still prevail and continuously threaten global health security and economic development.
Tedros AdhanomAlaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.
Sloane CrosleyI really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.
Mike DitkaIf you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.
Noam ChomskyIn low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
Bill GatesThe spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.
Bill GatesNigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Bill GatesWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander PopeOur Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations.
Coretta Scott KingWriting is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. WhiteThink of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Nancy PelosiAs long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
Frederic ChopinA dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
Florence NightingaleOvernight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
Clint EastwoodPride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.
Joseph B. WirthlinI'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
Joel OsteenThere is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis BaconNo evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
Linus PaulingIn a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.
Corrine BrownNot only does disability impact individual health and well-being, it also leads to social and economic exclusion.
Peter MaurerParks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.
Chuck NorrisSave for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
Patrick MacGillToday the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.
Lucy PowellEveryone in this country has a right to quality, affordable health care.
Brad SchneiderIt's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don't have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.
Chris RockMama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.
Gloria SteinemThe body is a sacred garment.
Martha GrahamHealth is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.
Lewis BlackIn societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
Deepak ChopraI purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.
Joel OsteenNothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?
Peter DiamandisCynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WellsIf any of us caught a fever during pregnancy, we would seek advice and support from a doctor. Getting help with our mental health is no different - our children need us to look after ourselves and get the support we need.
Kate MiddletonPolicy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations.
Henry GirouxWe drink one another's health and spoil our own.
Jerome K. JeromeThe more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.
Andrew J. BernsteinPeople have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
Benjamin SpockUnfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation.
Eric McCormack