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Quotes About Breast Cancer

Posted on 7/28/2011 by ridoscoot

Cancer is not a happy word, and an inspirational quote of cancerwas not a "happy"-it's about courage and conviction.

A selection of inspirational cancer quote as we load a lot of quotesthat you may have heard before, and some that you have not.

Cancer evoke a very personal reaction. This quote could not talk to you at all. No problem. Look at other pages, or send some of your own quotes. I would really welcome them.

This is Quotes About Breast Cancer and Cancer

Cancer isn't a happy word, and a cancer inspirational quote isn't about "happy"—it's about courage and faith.

That is what I learned from my friend Barbara when she was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer. Although she had already lost her beloved husband to cancer just two years previously, her courage, faith and determination through her own journey were truly inspirational.

A cancer inspirational quote selection like ours contains many quotes that you may have heard before, and some that you haven't.

Cancer evokes very personal reactions. These quotes may not speak to you at all. That's fine. Look on other pages, or please submit some quote of your own. I would truly welcome them.

Melissa Bank: "During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous."

Peggy Fleming: On facing breast cancer: "This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit."

Betty Ford: "When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person—maybe more."

Kate Jackson: "My breast cancer was caught very early thanks to my doctor a wonderful woman named Elsie Giogi, who just recently passed away after practicing medicine into her 80's. At the time, she had suggested I go for a baseline mammogram before age 40 because I had fibrocystic breasts. The mammogram discovered a tiny tumor, and it was so small that they were able to take it out very easily. I had a lumpectomy. Unfortunately, they did miss a little of the cancer, and two years later I had a mastectomy. But hey, I'm here, I'm alive, and I'm going to live to be 100!"

Olivia Newton-John: "Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis."

Nancy Reagan: Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said: "I guess it's my turn."

Lynn Redgrave: "But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything."

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me. Then we all fell to pieces.
Kylie Minogue
On being diagnosed with breast cancer

I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.
Kylie Minogue
On getting through battle against cancer

It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
Marianne Faithful
On her successful recovery from breast cancer

My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter.
Naomi Campbell

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.
Larry Craig

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
Olivia Newton John

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
Lance Armstrong

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Ingrid Bergman

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
Susan Sontag

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
John Diamond

During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.
Melissa Bank

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
Gilbert Adair
"Under the Sign of Cancer," Myths and Memories, 1986

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
Georg Groddeck
The Book of the It, 1923

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
Christopher Reeve

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
John Cheever
In The Letters of John Cheever, 1989, concerning his cancer and its treatment

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Life is what happens while you're making other plans.
John Lennon

Do not underestimate the power of treating yourself to what you
yourself believe is important.
Victoria Moran in 'Lit From Within'

Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn’t ever a road, but
when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang

Spirit is that vast stillness which is behind all created things.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly
understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of
action.
Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an
enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger
can. Anger is our real enemy.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

It never occurred to me to doubt myself.
Katharine Hepburn

Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.
St. Francis de Sales

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit
more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
We sometime lose sight of this force
when there is suffering, and too much pain.
Then suddenly,
the spirit will emerge
through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call
and answer in extraordinary ways.
Mother Teresa

Many of us spend our whole lives
Running from feeling
With the mistaken belief
That you cannot bear the pain.
But you have already borne the pain.
What you have not done
Is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran

Your work now is to find your fire and rekindle it - and then to
let it burn.
Oprah Winfrey

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau

It takes courage to grow up
and turn out to be who you really are.
E. E. Cummings

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart
don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate
in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and
whispers, 'Grow! Grow!'
The Talmud

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the
astonishing Light of your own Being.
Hafiz

We cannot control the wind, but we have the power to adjust the sails.
Chinese Proverb

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb

And here is my favorite quote in this section on cancer inspirational quote, by one of the people I most respect:

I know God will not give me anything I cannot handle. I just wish
He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa  


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