If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

I don’t exercise.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Health consists with temperance alone.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Touring is hard on the body.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Without failure there is no achievement.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.