The fundamental pillar of a healthy lifestyle lies in the balance of nutrition and exercise. The importance of what we put into our bodies cannot be overstated, as it profoundly impacts our physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
To reinforce the significance of nutrition and its overarching influence on our lives, we have compiled a comprehensive list of 200 inspirational and thought-provoking quotes.
These quotes are designed to encourage healthier choices, inspire lifestyle adjustments, and reaffirm the value of our health. They come from philosophers, nutritionists, fitness experts, chefs, and even famous figures who have recognized the true essence of maintaining health.
Nutrition Quotes
- “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates
- “Eat to nourish your body, not just to feed it.”
- “Nutrition isn’t just about eating, it’s about learning to live.”
- “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Good nutrition creates health in all areas of our existence. All parts are interconnected.” – T. Colin Campbell
- “Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” – Astrid Alauda
- “To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
- “He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.” – Arabian Proverb
- “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” – Ayurvedic Proverb
- “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore
- “Eat to fuel your body not to feed your emotions.”
- “Healthy eating is a way of life, so it’s important to establish routines that are simple, realistically, and ultimately livable.” – Arthur Agatston
- “Health requires healthy food.” – Roger Williams
- “Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it.”
- “Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.” – Joseph Addison
- “Your body drives on what you feed it, so choose wisely.”
- “Eating well is a form of self-respect.”
- “Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley
- “It’s not about eating less, it’s about eating right.”
- “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston Churchill
- “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
- “A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It’s the most important solution.” – John Mackey
- “Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.” – William Shakespeare
- “A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” – Barbara Johnson
- “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” – Michael Pollan
- “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” – Thomas Fuller
- “Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.”
- “If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.” – Errick McAdams
- “Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit.”
- “It is health that is the real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live in.”
- “The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The groundwork for all happiness is good health.” – Leigh Hunt
- “Investing in your health is the best investment you can ever make.”
- “Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.”
- “To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise, we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha
- “You don’t have to eat less, you just have to eat right.”
- “Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering.” – Buddha
- “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” – Buddha
- “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.” – Jess C. Scott
- “The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore
- “When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no “I’ll start tomorrow.” Tomorrow is disease.” – V.L. Allineare
- “In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.” – Unknown
- “It’s not a short term diet. It’s a long term lifestyle change.”
- “Eating healthy isn’t about restrictions. It’s about creating new habits.”
- “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
- “The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.” – Chinese Proverb
- “For maximum health, avoid sodas and diet sodas and drink lemon water instead.”
- “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” – Michael Pollan
- “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.”
- “Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don’t mind, so it doesn’t matter.”
- “Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.” – Jill Johnson
- “If you think wellness is expensive, try illness.”
- “Eating crappy food isn’t a reward — it’s a punishment.” – Drew Carey
- “A healthy outside starts from the inside.”
- “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” – Jack LaLanne
- “Eating is not a sport, it’s a way to nourish your body and mind.”
- “Nutrition isn’t just about eating, it’s about learning to live.”
- “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” – Doug Larson
- “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” – Thomas Edison
- “Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet, but one of the most vital.” – Kelly Barton
- “Eating healthy food fills your body with energy and nutrients. Imagine your cells smiling back at you and saying thanks!”
- “The greatest wealth is Health.” – Unknown
- “You can’t control everything in your life, but you can control what you put in your body.”
- “A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.” – Unknown
- “Food is not just calories, it is information. It talks to your DNA and tells it what to do.” – Dr. Mark Hyman
- “You don’t have to eat less, you just have to eat right.” – Unknown
- “Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” – William Shakespeare
- “You are what you eat, so don’t be fast, cheap, easy, or fake.” – Unknown
- “Health is not about the weight you lose, but about the life you gain.”
- “Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.” – Unknown
- “Garbage in, garbage out.” – George Fuechsel
- “No food will ever hurt you as much as an unhealthy mind.” – Bridgett Devoue
- “Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.” – Hippocrates
- “Exercise to be fit, not skinny.”
- “Nutrition: the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!” – Bernard Jensen
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “Your health is an investment, not an expense.”
- “By choosing healthy over skinny, you are choosing self-love over self-judgement.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Eating well is a form of self-respect.”
- “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “It’s not about being good at something. It’s about being good to yourself.”
- “Look after your body, it’s the only place you have to live.”
- “If you listen to your body when it whispers, you won’t have to hear it scream.”
- “True healthcare reform starts in your kitchen, not in Washington.” – Anonymous
- “Nutrition is not low-fat. It’s not low-calorie. It’s not being hungry and feeling deprived. It’s nourishing your body with real, whole foods so that you are consistently satisfied and energized to live life to the fullest.” – Unknown
- “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” – Bethenny Frankel
- “Happiness is the highest form of health.” – Dalai Lama
- “I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” – Joyce Meyer
- “When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.” – Herophilus
- “The groundwork for all happiness is good health.” – Leigh Hunt
- “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White
- “The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” – Plato
- “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” – World Health Organization
- “Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.” – Hippocrates
- “The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.” – Chinese Proverb
- “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” – Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates
- “The wish for healing has always been half of health.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, you’re off it.” – Jackie Gleason
- “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.” – Jess C. Scott
- “If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.” – Errick McAdams
- “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- “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
- “The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.” – Hippocrates
- “After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile.” – T. Cogan
- “To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.” – Gene Tunney
- “Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.” – Denis Waitley
- “Health is not valued till sickness comes.” – Thomas Fuller
- “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?” – Unknown
- “Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” – Franklin P. Adams
- “A healthy outside starts from the inside.” – Robert Urich
- “Your body hears everything your mind says.” – Naomi Judd
- “The preservation of health is easier than the cure of the disease.” – B.J. Palmer
- “Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
- “When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh
- “Eat right, drink water, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.” – Jean-Pierre Barral
- “The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.” – Anne Wilson Schaef
- “If you think organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately?” – Joel Salatin
- “You are what you eat from your head down to your feet.”
- “Eating healthy isn’t a goal, it’s a way of living.”
- “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” – Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb
- “The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.” – Chinese Proverb
- “For maximum health, avoid sodas and diet sodas and drink lemon water instead.”
- “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” – Michael Pollan
- “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.”
- “Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don’t mind, so it doesn’t matter.”
- “Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.” – Jill Johnson
- “If you think wellness is expensive, try illness.”
- “Eating crappy food isn’t a reward — it’s a punishment.” – Drew Carey
- “A healthy outside starts from the inside.”
- “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” – Jack LaLanne
- “Eating is not a sport, it’s a way to nourish your body and mind.”
- “Nutrition isn’t just about eating, it’s about learning to live.”
- “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” – Doug Larson
- “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” – Thomas Edison
- “Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet, but one of the most vital.” – Kelly Barton
- “Eating healthy food fills your body with energy and nutrients. Imagine your cells smiling back at you and saying thanks!”
- “The greatest wealth is Health.” – Unknown
- “You can’t control everything in your life, but you can control what you put in your body.”
- “A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.” – Unknown
- “Food is not just calories, it is information. It talks to your DNA and tells it what to do.” – Dr. Mark Hyman
- “You don’t have to eat less, you just have to eat right.” – Unknown
- “Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” – William Shakespeare
- “You are what you eat, so don’t be fast, cheap, easy, or fake.” – Unknown
- “Health is not about the weight you lose, but about the life you gain.”
- “Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.” – Unknown
- “Garbage in, garbage out.” – George Fuechsel
- “No food will ever hurt you as much as an unhealthy mind.” – Bridgett Devoue
- “Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.” – Hippocrates
- “If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?”
- “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air, and exercise.” – Thomas Edison
- “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” – Buddha
- “Eating healthy, it’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle.”
- “Every time you use the word ‘healthy,’ you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.” – Marcus Samuelsson
- “Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.” – Dorothy Day
- “Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do, not a punishment for what you ate.”
- “Don’t eat less, eat right.”
- “The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.” – Socrates
- “To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” – Josh Billings
- “Nutrition is not just about eating, it’s about learning to live.”
- “Eat for the body you want, not the body you have.”
- “Your stomach shouldn’t be a waste basket.”
- “Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” – Publilius Syrus
- “Health is a relationship between you and your body.” – Terri Guillemets
- “To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” – William Londen
- “He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.” – Chinese Proverb
- “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” – Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston Churchill
- “One should eat to live, not live to eat.” – Moliere
- “Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live in.”
- “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.” – Joseph Addison
- “Eating well is a form of self-respect.”
- “Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.” – Naval Ravikant
- “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” – Bethenny Frankel
- “When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.” – Augusten Burroughs
- “It is not a short term diet. It is a long term lifestyle change.”
- “Eating is a necessity, but cooking is an art.”
- “Happiness is the highest form of health.” – Dalai Lama
- “Eating food should not be a chore. It should be a comfortable and enjoyable part of your day.”
- “Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates
- “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore
- “Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it.” – Heather Morgan
- “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” – Hippocrates
- “There is no diet that will do what eating healthy does.”
- “To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.” – La Rochefoucauld
- “Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” – Astrid Alauda
- “Healthy eating is a sign of self-respect.”
- “Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.” – Deborah Day
- “Eat less from a box and more from the earth.”
- “Create healthy habits, not restrictions.”
- “Health is not just about what you’re eating. It’s also about what you’re thinking and saying.”
- “You can’t expect to look like a million bucks if you eat from the dollar menu.”
- “The best investment you can ever make is in your own health.”
- “Our bodies are our gardens – our minds are the gardeners. Nurture it with wholesome nutrition.” – Anonymous
- “Eating well isn’t a luxury, it’s a responsibility. Every bite you take is a decision about your future.” – Anonymous
These thought-provoking and inspiring quotes remind us of the inextricable link between our dietary choices and our overall health. They underscore the importance of taking control of our well-being, making conscious decisions about what we consume, and recognizing that our health is our most valuable asset.
As we navigate our way through the complexities of everyday life, let these quotes serve as guiding principles in fostering a healthy, balanced lifestyle.
Remember, our body is our most priceless possession and it is our duty to take care of it. So make every meal count, because every step towards a healthier lifestyle is a step towards a better you.