Inspirational Cancer Quotes

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

Lance Armstrong

Inspirational, Giving Up, Cancer

"Why I'm not angry at Lance Armstrong" by Sally Jenkins, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

"Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

Inspirational, Encouraging, Gratitude

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Don't count the days, make the days count.

Muhammad Ali

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Twitter post from Jan 29, 2011

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Christopher Reeve

Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting

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The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

Vladimir Lenin

Inspirational, Get Well, Cancer

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You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Bob Marley

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Anthony Storr

Attitude, Cancer, Positive Thinking

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong

"Attitude : The Power of Positivity". Book by Dr Kenneth Morton, p.56, 2011.

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QUOTES BOUQUET: You Have To Fight Through Some Bad Days To Earn The Best Days Of Your Life

Adnan

Cancer, Bad Day, Fighting

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Leroy van Dyke

Motivational, Success, Encouragement

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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido R Qubein

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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

Cancer, Healing, Health

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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

Jim Valvano

Encouraging, Basketball, Uplifting

Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

H. G. Wells

Motivational, Attitude, Cancer

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

Ingrid Bergman

Inspirational, Encouraging, Cancer

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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