Healthy living quotes inspire us to keep focused on our weight loss or health goals. We post quotes about healthy living and healthy eating on our facebook page every week. Based on popularity of these quotes (as judged by the number of likes, re-tweets and feedback), we have ordered them below such that the most popular quotes are on top. We gathered these quotes over a period of time through facebook, twitter, suggestions from fans and friends, and quote garden. There are two categories: Healthy Living and Healthy Eating. Both of these categories are popular; so the quote popularity is ranked within its own category.
Quotes About Healthy Living
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom. ~Jack Lalanne
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. ~Irish Proverb
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~ Terri Guillemets
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. ~Thomas Jefferson
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature. ~Elbert Hubbard
The superior doctor prevents sickness;
The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness;
The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.
~Chinese Proverb
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown
To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. ~Joan Welsh
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ~Sophia Loren
Quotes About Healthy Eating
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t. – Michael Pollan
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients. – Julia Child
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. – Benjamin Franklin
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life. ~T. A. Edison
How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday. Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I’m going to be inferior tomorrow, it’s that simple. ~Jack Lalanne
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice
Most synthetic B-vitamins are coal tar derivatives. I prefer to grab some rice bran, nutritional yeast, bee pollen or royal jelly for b-vitamins over having a nice cool glass of motor oil.”~Dr. Vaughn Lawrence
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly: eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry. ~Robert Hutchison
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? ~Annita Manning
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
Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well-mitched they are as body and soul, living partners.” ~Andre Simon (1877-1970)
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. ~Adelle Davis
These are some quotes we gathered over a period of time. If you have any interesting quotes about nutrition or fitness that we missed, please comment below. Also, we would love to hear about your thoughts on quotes from facebook fan pages. Do you get annoyed by such quotes in your wall or do you like them more than other random messages? If you have interesting opinions about quotes from the facebook wall, please feel free to leave your comment below.
Here is another quote that is my favorite:
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
Love these quotes as I have my self a website with quotes about life. Thought it would be wise to share my favorite quote: “It’s the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what’s right.” – Peter Parker