Valerie Harper Quotes

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

Health is not valued till sickness comes

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

One learns the states of the human body with respect to what is healthy and what deviates from it, for the purpose of preserving health when it already exists and restoring it when it has been lost.

It costs money to stay healthy, but it’s even more expensive to get sick.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!

I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.