“Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”
Ancient Medical Saying
DoctorsCompassion
Health Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HEALTH
Health Quotes
Read the best health quotes on wellness, healing and healthy living from Hippocrates, Charaka, Thiruvalluvar, Gandhi, William Osler and more. Words to inspire a healthier life.
“Men ask the gods for health in their prayers; they do not know that they have control over it themselves.”
Democritus
Self CareResponsibility
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.”
Socrates
ExerciseDiscipline
“The health of the body and the tranquillity of the soul are the goal of a blessed life.”
Epicurus
Mind And BodyPeace
“The wish for healing has always been half of health.”
Seneca
HealingMindset
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
Seneca
CourageResilience
“Nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent change of medicine.”
Seneca
TreatmentPatience
“Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.”
Publilius Syrus
Mental HealthPain
“Eat what is wholesome, eat in moderation, and eat what is in season.”
Vagbhata
AyurvedaHealthy Eating
“One whose doshas are in balance, whose digestive fire is good, whose tissues and wastes function properly, and whose soul, senses and mind are content, is called healthy.”
Sushruta
AyurvedaWellbeing
“Posture should be steady and comfortable.”
Patanjali (Yoga Sutras)
YogaPosture
“The body and the mind are the seat of disease, and also of health.”
Charaka
Mind And BodyAyurveda
“To do nothing is also a good remedy.”
Hippocrates
RestHealing
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
Hippocrates
ScienceKnowledge
“The best physician is also a philosopher.”
Galen
DoctorsWisdom
“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”
Plato
BalanceFunny
“It is disease that makes health pleasant and good, hunger that makes satiety, weariness rest.”
Heraclitus
GratitudePerspective
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”
Martial
WellbeingLiving Well
“Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.”
Euripides
ModerationBalance
“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad.”
Herodotus
RelaxationMental Health
“Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.”
Plutarch
RestHard Work
“Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, which deserves that we employ in its pursuit not only time, sweat, trouble, and worldly goods, but even life.”
Michel de Montaigne
PrioritiesWellbeing
“Idleness is the badge of gentry and the bane of body and mind.”
Robert Burton
ActivityLaziness
“A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.”
John Locke
Mind And BodyHappiness
“Physicians, like beer, are best when they are old.”
Thomas Fuller
DoctorsFunny