Our busy lives have become a convenient excuse for not taking care of our health. We often forget that all the money in the world cannot buy good health. You have to start taking care of your body if you want your body to keep working for you.
Here are some quotes from people who learned how important health was from their own experiences and learnings. I hope these quotes can motivate you to take action to improve your own health.
- Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness. Edward Stanley
- To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson
- Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson
- If you’re too busy to workout, your priorities need to change. I can’t think of too many things more important than your health. Rolsey
- Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy, and spirit you possess or takes away from it. Ann Wigmore
- I’m healthy as can be, not an ache or pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking God that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health. Joel Osteen
- The chief condition on which life, health, and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. Colin Powell
- 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
- Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself. Anonymous
- The ingredients of health and long life, and great temperance, open-air, easy labor, and little care. Philip Sidney
- Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries. Mark Halperin
- There is one consolation in being sick, and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. Henry David Thoreau
- Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. George Bernard Shaw
- Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account. Anne Wilson Schaef
