health quotes

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

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.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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.

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

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

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

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

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.‘

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

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.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

All diseases run into one, old age.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

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.

I love being active.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I take my sleep very, very important.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

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.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Precaution is better than cure.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

My son has died of AIDS.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

I don’t exercise.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.