Diet Quotes

Staying positive, feeling good, and remembering to celebrate small victories can make all the difference when you are trying to cut back on junk food and embrace healthy eating habits.

As much as we want to make healthy food choices, it can be hard to stick with a balanced diet when the comfort and ease of less virtuous options are all around.

In this article, we have compiled an array of motivational diet quotes that will turn you into a champion dieter in no time at all.

Diet Quotes That Will Encourage You To Eat Healthy & Clean

  1. Any food eaten while standing in front of the refrigeration still have calories. A plate is not what makes something fattening. – Karen Salmansohn
  2. “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need”. – Ayurvedic Proverb
  3. “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”― Michael Pollan
  4. “If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you’re missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don’t see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.”― Brett Hoebel
  5. If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.-Errick McAdams
  6. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.-Irv Kupcinet
  7. “A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.”– Hermione Gingold
  8. It takes five minutes to consume 500 calories. It takes two hours to burn them off.-Anonymous
  9. “Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.” ― Morgan Spurlock
  10. “Keep healthy veggies at home, so you’ll snack on healthy veggies.” – Karen Salmansohn
  11. “It’s not enough to eat veggies and do yoga. You also must work on healing the stress and anger in your life.” – Karen Salmansohn
  12. “The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry.” – Robert Hutchison
  13. “Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.” ― John H. Tobe
  14. “To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”― William Londen
  15. Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.-Old English Proverb
  16. “Eating healthy food fills your body with energy and nutrients. Imagine your cells smiling back at you and saying: “Thank you!”.” – Karen Salmansohn
  17. “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
  18. “Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley
  19. “Health requires healthy food.” – Roger Williams
  20. “Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.” – Mark Halperin
  21. “We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth…” — Ezra Taft Benson
  22. “Healthy eating isn’t about counting fat grams, dieting, cleanses, and antioxidants; Its about eating food untouched from the way we find it in nature in a balanced way; Whole foods give us all that we need to perfectly nourish ourselves.” — Pooja Mottl
  23. Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you. Joan Rivers
  24. The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert
  25. “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” — Jack LaLanne
  26. “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” –Doug Larson
  27. “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
  28. “What you eat literally becomes you. you have a choice in what you’re made of.” Anonymous
  29. “The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.” –Chinese Proverb
  30. “Nothing has benefited me more physically, mentally and most important spiritually, then adapting a vegan diet. The best decision I have made as a human for me and the planet.” ― Tim Shieff
  31. I need to hire someone just to follow me around and knock unhealthy food right out of my hands.
  32. It’s all fun and games until your jeans don’t fit.
  33. Whatever your problem is, the answer is not in the fridge. – Karen Salmansohn
  34. I’m on a liquid diet.. after three drinks, I don’t care what I weigh.__ Unknown Author
  35. Why can’t I be comforted by kale? Why does it have to be chocolate? – Karen Salmansohn
  36. Studies repeatedly show that NOW is the best time of day for you to start that healthier diet.
  37. “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore
  38. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” – Proverb
  39. “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” – Bethenny Frankel
  40. “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” ― Hippocrates
  41. “Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout.”― Summer Sanders
  42. “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.” – Ann Wigmore
  43. “So, when it comes to eating healthy, it’s just doing the right thing. And it’s not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it’s something you have to do 25 days a month. Let’s put it that way.” Mike Ditka
  44. “Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.” — Victoria Moran
  45. A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat. Erma Bombeck