Inspiration

On health as a good
“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.”
Arabian Proverb    
“A wise person should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings.”
Hippocrates    
“The greatest wealth is health.”
Virgil    
“Happiness is activity in accordance with excellence.”
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics    
“The excellence of the body is health.”
Aristotle, Rhetoric    
“Health is better than strength or beauty.”
Aristotle, Topics    
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence    
“Without health, there can be no happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson    
“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
Emerson, Nature    
“The goal of life is to die young, as late as possible.”
Ashley Montague    
On the relationship between health and higher goods
“Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body”
Juvenal, Satires    
“A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.”
Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education    
“A feeble body makes a feeble mind.”
Rousseau, Emile    
“If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas M. Randolph, Jr.    
“We are lovers of beauty without having lost the taste for simplicity, and lovers of wisdom without loss of manly vigor . . . Work for the perfect beauty of our bodies and the manly virtues of our souls.”
Pericles, address to fellow Athenians    
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
Aristotle, Metaphysics    
“There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a person who combines the possession of moral goodness
in his soul with the outward beauty of his body.”
Plato, Republic    
“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”
Herophilos    
“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; inasmuch as without it life comes to be painful and oppressive to us. Pleasure, wisdom, knowledge, and virtue, without it, grow tarnished and vanish away;”
Montaigne, Essays    
“O blessed health! . . . thou art above all gold and treasure; ‘tis thou who enlargest the soul, – and openest all its powers to receive instruction and to relish virtue.”
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy    
“How necessary health is to our business and happiness, and how requisite a strong constitution, able to endure hardships and fatigue, is to one that will make any figure in the world.”
Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education    
“Health is a good in itself, . . . and is especially worth seeking and cherishing . . . As the body may be sacrificed to some manual or other toil . . . so may the intellect be devoted to some specific profession . . . On the other hand, as the body may be tended, cherished, and exercised with a simple view to its general health, so may the intellect be generally exercised in order to its perfect state.”
Cardinal Newman, Idea of a University    
“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. Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is strong. Hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound bodies.”
President John F. Kennedy    
“Over the years, I have come to look upon physical fitness as the trunk of a tree that supports the many branches which represent all the activities that make life worth living: intellectual life, spiritual life, occupation, love life, and social activities.”
Thomas Kirk Cureton, Jr.    
On the means to health & fitness
“Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health.
There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen.”
Hippocrates    
“All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well-developed and age more slowly, but if unused and left idle they become liable to disease, defective in growth, and age quickly.”
Hippocrates    
“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being while movement and methodical physical exercise save and preserve it.”
Plato, Republic    
“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training . . . what a disgrace it is for a person to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable!”
Plato, Republic    
“Here it is natural and fitting to set forth . . . the means whereby body and mind are kept in health; . . .
the proportion or disproportion between the soul and body themselves is more important than any other; . . . there is one safeguard: not to exercise the soul without the body, nor yet the body without the soul, in order that both may hold their own and prove equally balanced and sound. . . . One who is intensely occupied with any . . . intellectual discipline must give his body its due meed of exercise by taking part in athletic training; while he who is industrious in molding his body must compensate his soul with her proper exercise in the cultivation of the mind and all higher education; so one may deserve to be called in the true sense a person of noble breeding.”
Plato, Timaeus    
“Both excessive and defective exercise destroys the strength, and similarly drink or food which is above or below a certain amount destroys the health, while that which is proportionate produces, increases,
and preserves it.”
Aristotle, Ethics    
“Personal health is preserved by learning about one’s own constitution, by finding out what is good or bad for oneself, by continual self-control in eating habits and comforts . . . and lastly, by the professional skill
of those to whose science these matters belong.”
Cicero, De Officiis    
“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will . . . either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.”
Shakespeare, Othello    
“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”
Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, The Conduct of Life address at Liverpool College, 1873    
“Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather should be little regard.
I speak this from experience, having made this arrangement of my life.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas M. Randolph, Jr.    
“If the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was Secretary of State, and twice President could give it two hours a day, we should be able to give it at least 30 minutes.”
President John F. Kennedy

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