C. Everett Koop Quotes

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.

At the end of the day, health above all.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

My God. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself.... Since the alternative [to living with Alzheimer's Disease] is being dead, I am quite happy where I am.

When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival.

Whatever I can do for the longevity of my life, I'm going to do.

Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.

Health is key.

The first wealth is health.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Without your health, everything else means nothing.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.

Medication can help us live a happier life.

To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one's longevity and health.