Breast Cancer Inspirational Quotes:

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

- Bob Marley

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong, Scoliosis, I Am Strong

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Country, Cancer, Mean, World Health, World Health Organization

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

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

topic: Cancer, Grateful, Healthy, Inspirational Cancer, Prioritize

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

- Ingrid Bergman

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Cancer, Inspirational Cancer, Inspirational Girl

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

topic: Cancer, America, Mammograms, Inspirational Cancer, Breast Cancer

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

- Vladimir Lenin

topic: Cancer, Heart, Important, Inspirational Cancer, Cancer Treatment

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

topic: Children, Giving Up, Cancer, Inspirational Cancer, Breast Cancer

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

- Betsey Johnson

topic: Daughter, Mother, Cancer, Breast Cancer Inspiration, Breast Cancer Inspirational

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

- Pat Paulsen

topic: Fear, Breast Cancer, Men, Inaugural Speech, Sound Bites

We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'

- Wanda Sykes

topic: Cancer, Kids, Feels, Boo Boo, Breast Cancer Inspirational

Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away.' It's just important, just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood.

- Peter Criss

source: "Original KISS drummer celebrates surviving breast cancer". Interview with Madison Park, edition.cnn.com. October 15, 2009.

topic: Cancer, Guy, Going Away, Breast Cancer Inspirational, Breast Cancer Survivor

I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.

- Carly Simon

topic: Cancer, Fighting, Warrior, Breast Cancer Inspirational, Breast Cancer Survivor

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. 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

topic: Inspirational, Distance, Cancer, Inspirational Cancer, Breast Cancer

I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

- Amy Robach

source: Amy Robach (2015). “Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour”, p.194, Ballantine Books

topic: Cancer, Fighting, Steps, Thick Of It, Breast Cancer Inspirational

I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.

- Hoda Kotb

source: "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview by Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.

topic: Cancer, Thinking, Boss, Daunting Tasks, Breast Cancer Inspiration

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

- Christina Applegate

source: "Christina Applegate's Life After Breast Cancer" by Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. September 19, 2013.

topic: Fun, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Inspirational, Breast Cancer Survivor

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Fear, Patriotic, History, Inaugural Address, Inaugural Speech

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Cancer, Heart, Disease, Breast Cancer, Cancer Awareness

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Cancer, Risk, Needs, Breast Cancer Inspiration, Breast Cancer Inspirational

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong, Softball Team, Good Thoughts

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

- Adnan

topic: Bad Day, Fighting, Bouquets, Inspirational Cancer, Inspiring Cancer

Winning isn't the end of the world

- David Pleat

topic: Winning, World, End Of The World, Inspirational Moving On, Inspiring Cancer

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

- Kylie Minogue

topic: Zero, Cancer, People, Inspirational Cancer, Inspiring Cancer

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.

- Cynthia Nixon

topic: Cancer, Breast Cancer, Mammograms, Inspiring Cancer, Breast Cancer Inspiration

Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

- Edie Falco

topic: Jobs, Cancer, Diagnosis, Breast Cancer, Cancer Diagnosis