Motivational health quotes to get you fit & healthy

A lot of us take our good health for granted, and don't fully appreciate what amazing, complex,  highly-effective, functioning  'things' our bodies are until it's too late. 

We may well have our little health niggles, but think of those in hospital in bad health and it might just make us appreciate the relative good health that we have! Often we only really appreciate good health when we get sick or old and our bodies start to fail us. 

When our bodies are in good working order and we are healthy and fit - every aspect of our life feels the benefit - we feel good & look good. And this good health contributes greatly to our happiness and living a good life. Below you will find some quotes and original artwork that try and inspire us all to focus on valuing and promoting good health.

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The groundwork of all happiness is good health.

James Leigh Hunt

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

Mahatma Gandhi 

Your body is your most priceless possession...so go take care of it!

Jack LaLane

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.

A. J. Reb Materi

The best investment you can ever make is in your own health.

SH

It's never too early or too late to work towards being the healthiest you

Unknown

The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order.

Henry Ward Beecher

To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

Life is not merely being alive, but being well.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

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

Marcus Valerius Martialis

There is no health without mental health

W.H.O European declaration on mental health

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:
“Man.
 Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
 Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
 And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
 the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
 he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

Dalai Lama

To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, exercise, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

William Londen

Those who have an enthusiasm and interest in life, stay young - no matter how 'old' they get. It is these people who often stay the healthiest and live the longest too.

SH

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

Irish Proverb

The human body is incredible.  Part of what makes it so impressive (apart from the concept of conciousness and self awareness) is its ability to regenerate itself.  Your outer layer of skin, the epidermis, replaces itself every 35 days.  You are given a new liver every six weeks (a human liver can regenerate itself completely even if as little as 25% remains of it).  Your stomach lining replaces itself every 4 days, and the stomach cells that come into contact with digesting food are replaced every 5 minutes.  Our entire skeletal structures are regenerated every 3 months.  Your entire brain replaces itself every two months.  And the entire human body, right down to the last atom, is replaced every 5-7 years.

Brent Lambert

You are, quite literally, what you eat.
Every bite, every drink matters. 

Unknown

Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates

You wouldn't put diesel in a petrol car. So don't put junk food in your body!

Anonymous

Get fitter & exercise more:

Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.

Edward Smith-Stanley 

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

Kenneth H. Cooper

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

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

Stone Gossard

​Motivational fitness & training quotes:
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Fitness is not about being better than someone else..it’s about being better than you used to be.

Unknown

It’s not one giant step that does it, but lots of little steps.

Unknown

Slow progress is better than no progress.

Unknown

The only bad workout is the one you didn’t do.

Unknown

No matter how slow you run you are still lapping everyone on the couch.

Unknown

Training only really starts when you want to stop.

Unknown

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.

Unknown

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Unknown

No pain no gain.

Unknown

​Your mind & good health:

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Your mental state should always remain calm. Even if some anxiety occurs, as it is bound to in life, you should always be calm. Like a wave, which rises from the water and dissolves back into the water, these disturbances are very short, so they should not affect your basic mental attitude. If you remain calm your blood pressure and so on remains more normal and as a result your health will improve.

Tenzin Gyatso, The Dalai Lama

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It’s called meditation.

Jonathan Haidt

Quotes on nature's positive effect on our health:

Humans evolved for thousands of years by spending most of their time outside, physically active amongst our natural environment. It’s only in the last few hundred years that we have started to live a mostly sedentary lifestyle indoors. It’s not good for us. Most of us have experienced the boost that exercise gives us or felt the positive effects of being outside in the fresh air with the sunlight beaming down upon us. We just need to do more of it.  

SH

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going into nature is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

John Muir

I go to nature to be  soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.    

John Burroughs

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.    

E. O. Wilson 

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

John Muir

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