If you are looking for inspiring health quotes for balanced development of the body and the mind, this blog can help you in more than just a single way. These motivating health quotations would help you see and follow the brighter sides of health, life, and happiness so that staying fit and healthy is never an issue with you.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. -Friedrich Nietzsche

You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine…. The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously.  I am that machine. -Frederick Alexander Lindemann

Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies?  It’s that big piece of machinery attached to your head. -Carrie Latet

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hormones, vitamins, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life.  Principal item, however, is the machinery. -Martin H. Fischer

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. – Thomas Jefferson

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. – Thomas Browne

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Red meat is not bad for you.  Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! - Tommy Smothers

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. - G.K. Chesterton

Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement and sympathy and understanding. – John D. Rockefeller, Jr

Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth. - Frank Tyger

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. – Spanish Proverb

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends, and spirit – and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. - Brian Dyson

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. – Henry Ward Beecher

Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley

The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. - Richard Baker

The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs. – J. O. De La Mettrie

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united. – Alexander von Humboldt

“Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health.” - James Thomson

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. - Joan Welsh

“It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!” – Unknown

“Life is not living, but living in health.” – Martial

“Processed foods not only extent the shelf life, but they extend the waistline as well.” – Karen Sessions

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“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” – Gautam Buddha

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” - Mark Twain

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. – Unknown Author

The best six doctors anywhere

And no one can deny it

Are sunshine, water, rest, and air

Exercise and diet.

These six will gladly you attend

If only you are willing

Your mind they’ll ease

Your will they’ll mend

And charge you not a shilling. – Wayne Fields

You can’t lose weight without exercise. But I’ve got a philosophy about exercise. I don’t think you should punish your legs for something your mouth did. Drag your lips around the block once or twice. – Gary Owens

Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it. – Jacob Braude

We hope that these inspiring health quotes would have done wonders to keep you in good mood and shape by now. After all, it is all about health and fitness. Remember, it is your own health and it is you who need to make the efforts.