We know that cancer isn’t all rainbow and butterflies and once you enter a dark mindset, it can be hard to get out of it. Think positive and be optimistic and read Best Inspirational Cancer Quotes, Cancer Survivor Quotes, Quotes About Cancer to help you bring some perspective and optimism to a situation.
Best Inspiring Cancer Quotes for cancer patients
1. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” » Kenji Miyazawa
2. “Cancer is a word, not a sentence.” » John Diamon
3. “Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.” » Mary C. Crowley
4. “To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” » Katherine Paterson
5. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
6. “Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.” » Ingrid Bergman
7. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” » Cayla Mills
8. “There is no hope unmingled with fear, no fear unmingled with hope.” – Baruch Spinoza
9. “Cancer is that awful word we all fear when we go to the doctor for a physical exam, but in that brief dark moment, we hear it the world we live in and the people we share it with begin to illuminate things we did not even pay attention to.” » BD Phillips
10. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” » harriet
11. “Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy.” – Felicia Hemans
12. “We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.”
13. “Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” » Alex Karras
14. “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” » Maori Proverb
15. “Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” » Joseph Campbell
16. “Now I’ve thought of another: Never give up. Never surrender.” » Jason Nesmit
17. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
18. “Any time, anywhere, always ready, always there.” » Submarine Navy motto
19. “The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years.” » Edward J. Stieglitz
20. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” » Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” » Robert Brault
22. “What Cancer Cannot Do” Cancer is so limited.. It cannot cripple LOVE – It cannot shatter HOPE – It cannot corrode FAITH – It cannot destroy PEACE – It cannot kill FRIENDSHIP – It cannot suppress MEMORIES – It cannot silence COURAGE – It cannot invade the SOUL – It cannot steal eternal LIFE – It cannot conquer the APIRIT”
23. “You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.” – Male Cancer
24. “Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts — it’s what you do with what you have left.” » Hubert Humphrey
25. “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” » Herm Albright
26. “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
27. “Cancer, any type of cancer is terrible. We don’t realize what it actually feels like until it happens to ourselves, and it is terrible. All the emotion we go through and the strength we need to build up, is hard. We don’t understand how bad it really is.”
28. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” » Albert Einstein
29. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” » Franklin D. Roosevelt
30. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at a time of challenge and controversy.” » Dr. Martin Luther King
31. “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
32. “As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.” » Emmanuel
33. “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
34. “Optimism is the foundation of courage.” – Nicholas Murray Butler
35. “We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.” – Winston Churchill
