Inspirational Quotes for Cancer Patients
“I can beat this. My body's strong and capable and my mind is strong. And science is amazing. And anything's possible. People have beaten stage four cancer before, and people will continue to beat stage four cancer. And there's no reason that I can't be one of them”
- Emily
“Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today, let us begin.”
- Mother Teresa
“She believed she could, so she did.”
- R.S. Grey
“Our way is not soft grass; it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.”
- Ruth Westheimer
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
-Louisa May Alcott
"I am not defined by my cancer. I am defined by my strength, my courage, and my will to live."
- Unknown
"Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible, and then working for it."
— Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
No Road Too Steep
There is no path so dark,
nor road so steep,
nor hill so slippery
that other people have
not been there
before me
and survived.
May my dark times
teach me to help
the people I love
on similar journeys.
-Maggie Bedrosian
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Cancer, you a**hole get out of our sight
Having an Attitude
Attitude is everything in recovery from cancer. You gotta have 'tude if you expect to take a licking and come back ticking.
Tumor humor is not warm and friendly; it's scrappy and sometimes nasty and tasteless, a sort of chemotherapy for the spirit—necessary but (not always) nice.
-Robert Lipsyte
"There's always hope beyond what you see."
— Cora Connor
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."
— Leslie Medley-Russell
"Being positive is the best medicine you can take."
— Maggie Howard
"It’s possible not just to survive, but to thrive and to live a healthy, wonderful life again."
— Erika Evans
"Enjoy every day without worrying about the next."
— Diego Zamora
“Every day is a chance to create a memory and to love a little more.”
— Jessi Hooks
"Cancer is like a teeter-totter. Sometimes you gotta go down to go back up."
— John Kennedy
"Don’t pass up the cherry pie."
— Eddie Yarmer
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“Cancer doesn’t have to define you.”
— Nelda Blair
The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it flow with it . . . and join the dance
- Alan Watts
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly.
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
-Rummi
It’s not just about the game -- it’s about the comeback.
If the only miracle we are looking for is the big one ... then we will most likely miss the other miracles that are unfolding before our very eyes, each and every day.
— Deacon Wayne Charlton
Remember: you're not dying from cancer . . . You're LIVING with it.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cancer is a journey, but you walk the road alone. There are many places to stop along the way and get nourishment - you just have to be willing to take it.
-Emily Hollenberg
Whether you think you can or you can't, you're probably right.
-Henry Ford
HOPE is living with COURAGE and CONFIDENCE, not FEAR.
-Penny Boldrey
Don't lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out.
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.
-Frederick Buechner
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
-Orison Swett Marden
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can.
- Jimmy Carter
At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.
You can't smooth out the surf, but you can learn to ride the waves.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
"You know, it's just one day at a time. You can only handle what's in front of you. Don't stress about the past, and don't stress about the future. Just focus on living now." - Albita