Top 100 Health Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Health is not valued till sickness comes.”

— Thomas Fuller

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes

2. “Health is the greatest possession.”

— Laozi

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Deep Quotes

3. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Personal Development Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

4. “Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

5. “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Gratitude Quotes

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Wealth Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Real Quotes

7. “He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Also featured in: Quotes About Hope, Fitness Quotes

8. “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Healing Quotes

9. “I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Affirmation Quotes, Helping Quotes, Healing Quotes

10. “A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”

— Hippocrates

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11. “There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.”

— Oliver Sacks

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Care Quotes, Practice Quotes, Medicine Quotes

12. “The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.”

— Paul Farmer

13. “The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Hippocrates

15. “Sleep is the best meditation.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Quality Quotes

16. “As nurses, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul, and body of our patients, their families, and ourselves. They may not remember our names but they will never forget the way we made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

17. “Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”

— Émile Coué

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Wellness Quotes

18. “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”

— William Osler

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Caring Quotes, Healing Quotes, Medicine Quotes

19. “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”

— Hippocrates

Also featured in: Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Fitness Quotes

20. “Walking is a man’s best medicine.”

— Hippocrates

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21. “Caring is the essence of nursing.”

— Jean Watson

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Practice Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Caring Quotes

22. “When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Happy Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Wellness Quotes

23. “In 10 sessions you’ll feel the difference, in 20 you’ll see the difference, and in 30 you’ll have a new body.”

— Joseph Pilates

Also featured in: Motivational Workout Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Workout Quotes, Exercise Quotes

24. “Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time.”

— Kristin Armstrong

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Smart Quotes

25. “The first wealth is health.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Healing Quotes

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Quotes About Money, Wise Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

27. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Justice Quotes

28. “Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time.”

— C. Everett Koop

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes

29. “Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Healing Quotes

30. “Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

31. “Your health and well being should be your number one priority, nothing else is more important.”

— Robert Cheeke

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Fitness Quotes

32. “Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.”

— Ellen G. White

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Healing Quotes

33. “When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”

— Herophilus

Also featured in: Wellness Wednesday Quotes

34. “I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Care Quotes

35. “Nature itself is the best physician.”

— Hippocrates

Also featured in: Environment Quotes

36. “Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.”

— David Blumenthal

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37. “The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.”

— Mark Hyman, M.D.

Also featured in: Wellness Wednesday Quotes

38. “Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.”

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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39. “At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.”

— Jillian Michaels

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes, Exercise Quotes

40. “Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.”

— William Osler

41. “Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Mind Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

42. “Health is not just the absence of a disease. It’s an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes

43. “There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God’s power, nothing is impossible!”

— T. B. Joshua

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Miracle Quotes, Impossible Quotes

44. “Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”

— Hippocrates

Also featured in: Healing Quotes

45. “Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.”

— Mary Davis

Also featured in: Serenity Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Healing Quotes

46. “Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”

— Josh Billings

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Quotes About Ideas

47. “The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes

48. “Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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49. “In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

— Oliver Sacks

50. “Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I’m proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Depression Quotes