Breast Cancer Survivor Quotes:

I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

- Erika Slezak

topic: Cancer, Survivor, Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Survivor

Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

- Olivia Newton-John

topic: Cancer, Self, Years, Cancer Survivor, Breast Cancer Survivor

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

- Christopher Reeve

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Hope, Hope And Faith, Inspirational Cancer

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

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

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

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

source: Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

topic: Basketball, Cancer, Heart, Inspirational Cancer, Inspiring Cancer

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

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

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

I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.

- Olivia Newton-John

topic: Cancer, Grateful, Survivor, Cancer Survivor, Breast Cancer Inspiration

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

topic: Cancer, Mean, Cat, Breast Cancer, Cleaners

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

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

topic: Cancer, Fate, Survival, Breast Cancer, Cancer Victim

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

- Rue McClanahan

topic: Cancer, Survivor, Breasts, Cancer Survivor, Breast Cancer Survivor

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

- Michael N. Castle

topic: Cancer, Second Chance, Way, Armstrong, Cyclists

Winning isn't the end of the world

- David Pleat

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

- Mary Ann Mobley

source: "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

topic: Cancer, Race, Survivor, Breast Cancer, Cancer Survivor

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

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

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

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Life, Cancer, Anger, Rage And Anger, Anger And Bitterness

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

- Wanda Sykes

topic: Funny Inspirational, Unhappy, Today, Cancer Survivor, Breast Cancer Survivor

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Stars, Powerful, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Cancer Survivor

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

- Olympia Snowe

topic: Cancer, Simple, Long, Breast Cancer, Painless

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

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

- Vladimir Lenin

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

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 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

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

I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!

- Jane Wiedlin

topic: Cancer, Support, Survivor, Cancer Survivor, Breast Cancer Survivor

I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.

- Diahann Carroll

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Country, Cancer, People, Breast Cancer Survivor

My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

- Kate Walsh

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

topic: Mom, Cancer, Years, Mammograms, Age 30

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Cancer, America, Survivor, Breast Cancer, Coverage

For people who dont know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. Ive been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

- John Barrasso

topic: Cancer, Years, Medicine, Casper, Chief Of Staff