Fuel Your Body for Peak Performance Quotes
Every meal either builds your energy or borrows against it. The man who eats with discipline runs on a level of power most men never feel. This Vitality path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on fueling, nutrition, and appetite control. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“The best diet is the one you can stick to.”
“To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
“Discipline at the dinner table is the foundation of discipline everywhere else.”
“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.”
“Eat to live, do not live to eat.”
“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison.”
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”
“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.”
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
“Drinking water, we have found, is perhaps the most undervalued source of physical energy renewal.”
“Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.”
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
“Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.”
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
“Eat little, sleep sound.”
“The first wealth is health.”
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom and keep our mind strong and clear.”
“It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.”
“The difference between one person and another is not mere ability - it is energy.”
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
“While it may seem like skipping sleep is the only way you can get other things done, doing so comes at a cost.”
“Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.”
“Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”
“The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow.”
“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.”
“The greatest wealth is health.”
“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
“Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.”
“We can never have enough of nature.”
“Your waistline is your lifeline.”
“The glutton digs his grave with his teeth.”
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”
“If you eat, move, and sleep well today, you will have more energy tomorrow.”
“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought, they must be earned.”
“He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.”
“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.”
“All human beings should be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves.”
“It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.”
“If man made it, don’t eat it.”
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.”
“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”
“The groundwork of all happiness is health.”
“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit.”
“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”
“He that takes medicine and neglects diet wastes the skill of the physician.”
“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
“Garbage in, garbage out. The body performs to the quality of what it is given.”
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”
“You don’t have to be sick to get better.”
“Your body is your most priceless possession; you’ve got to take care of it!”
