70 Inspiring Breast Cancer Quotes and Sayings to Raise Awareness
Published August 16, 2021
We’re slowly getting closer to October, which is known as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So why do we dedicate an entire month to the awareness of breast cancer? Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, apart from skin cancers. According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc., about 1 in 8 American women will experience this cancer in their lives.
Being diagnosed with breast cancer alters the course of one’s life. It might be difficult to process the news at first and even more difficult to know how to proceed, regardless of your prognosis.
While each person’s experience is unique, knowing that others have gone through something similar can provide the support and inspiration necessary to keep things in perspective, plus motivational words and mantras can be a beacon of light during troubled times.
They’re there to keep you going when you feel lost and hopeless. They may just be words, but they could be exactly what other people need to hear. So we’ve prepared a list of breast cancer quotes and sayings that we hope will inspire you or your loved one going through breast cancer.
1. “Cancer is a word, not a sentence.”
– John Diamond
2. “You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.”
– Stuart Scott
3. “Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn’t afraid of anything anymore.”
– Melissa Etheridge
4. “Breast cancer changes you, and the change can be beautiful.”
– Jane Cook
5. “Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways is richer.”
– Giuliana Rancic
6. “It’s about focusing on the fight and not the fright.”
– Robin Roberts
7. “Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!”
– Betsey Johnson
8. “And if it comes back, I’ll keep fighting.”
– Nicole Kramer
9. “One important thing to know is you’re still the same person during it.”
– Kylie Minogue
10. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
– Kenji Miyazawa
11. “My diagnosis flung me into despair until it hit me: I’m alive.”
– Dana Dinerman
12. “The only person who can save you is you.”
– Sheryl Crow
13. “I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless.”
– Jenna Morasca
14. “Some days, there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.”
– Emory Austin
15. “Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.”
– Kris Carr
16. “Life is much better when you choose happy. Despite your uncontrollable circumstances, you have the choice to choose happy and to choose life.”
– Lakeia Clark
17. “Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.”
– Hayley Mills
18. “I’m here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.”
– Wanda Sykes
19. “It’s ok to not be ok all the time.”
– Shauna Kirby
20. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
21. “When fear knocks, let faith answer the door.”
– Robin Roberts
22. “Whether you’re a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn’t discriminate.”
– Stephanie McMahon
23. “Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.”
– Mindy Sterling
24. “You are not your scars.”
– Malisa Morris
25. “Keep putting one foot in front of the other. That’s all you need to do right now.”
– Jen
26. “Yesterday, I dared to struggle. Today, I dare to win.”
– Bernadette Devlin
27. “The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.”
– Nikolai Lenin
28. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.”
– Rumi
29. “We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.”
– Lance Armstrong
30. “Fearless does not mean you aren’t afraid; it means you accept the fear and move forward anyway.”
– Brianne Joseph
31. “I have cancer. Cancer doesn’t have me!”
– Marco Calderon
32. “From every wound, there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says ‘I survived’.”
– Kim
33. “When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.”
– Kay Yow
34. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
35. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
– Helen Keller
36. “My will, my faith, and my body have been challenged. But make no mistake, my heart is strong, and my resolve to fight will never be broken.”
– Anastacia
37. “To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
– Katherine Paterson
38. “I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.”
– Angelina Jolie
39. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
– Ralph Ellison
40. “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
41. “Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.”
– Zig Ziglar
42. “More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.”
– Sheryl Crow
43. “Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”
– Hippocrates
44. “There is no hope unmingled with fear; no fear unmingled with hope.”
– Baruch Spinoza
45. “Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never give in.”
– Olivia Newton-John
46. “Optimism is the foundation of courage.”
– Nicholas Murray Butler
47. “The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.”
– C.C. Scott
48. Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.”
– Jaclyn Smith
49. “I’m battling cancer. It’s another battle I intend to win.”
– Arlen Specter
50. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
– Maya Angelou
51. “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me.”
– Dr. Seuss
52. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault
53. “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
54. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot, and hang on.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
55. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
– Alice Walker
56. “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
– Angela Davis
57. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
– Orison Swett Marden
58. “A woman is like a tea bag; you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
– Nancy Reagan
59. “You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.”
– Ain Eineziz
60. “Cancer is only going to be a chapter in your life, not the whole story.”
– Joe Wasser
61. “There will come a time in life when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
– Bishop
62. “Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”
– C. Assad
63. “Be your own healthcare advocate. You owe it to yourself and the people that love you.”
– Dawnia
64. “Life’s challenges can make us bitter or better. Choose to learn and grow, not to be a victim of circumstances.”
– Amy
65. “You should never regret anything in life. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
– Jaime Hall
66. “Darkness exists so that stars can shine.”
– Gemma
67. “You were assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved.”
– Shanee Wilson
68. “Everyone has a story. Cancer tried to end my life story. I decided to write another chapter.”
– John
69. “You know, once you’ve stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.”
– David H. Koch
70. “There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.”
– Ann Jillian
71. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t.”
– Thomas Edison
72. “I believe in the impossible because no one else does.”
– Flo Jo
73. “Cancer didn’t bring me to my knees; it brought me to my feet.”
– Michael Douglas
74. “Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
– Ralph Ellison
75. “The triumph can’t be had without the struggle.”
– Wilma Rudolph
76. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
– James Baldwin
77. “It’s our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that’s what I know for sure… I think.”
– Ellen Degeneres
78. “You have no idea how high I can fly.”
– Michael Scott
79. “Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You may not be where you want to be neither are you where you used to be.”
– Rick Warren
80. “Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
– Voltaire
81. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
– HG Wells
82. “It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”
– Mandy Hale
83. “The potential within you is greater than the obstacles around you.”’
– Matshona Dhliwayo
84. “With a new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
85. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
– Helen Keller
86. “An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”
– Prescott Bush
87. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
– Joshua J. Marine
88. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”
– Peter Pan
89. “The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up.”
– Timothy the Mouse (Dumbo)
90. “If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, keep moving forward.”
– MLK
91. “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.”
– Dalai Lama
92. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, and how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou
93. “Life is tough my darling, but so are you.”
– Stephanie Bennett Henry
94. “The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were to perhaps win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing achieved.”
– Samuel Smiles
95. “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”
– Jim Watkins
96. “‘The wound is the place where the light enters you!’ Reminding us that God is ever more present when we are wounded.”
– Rumi
97. “If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we’d be lining up – wouldn’t we?”
– Judy Blume
98. “Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.”
– Bell Hooks
99. “Remember that all cancers are not the same. Take each day as it comes and spend time doing things you enjoy with your loved ones.”
– Robin Squellati
100. “Once you see the world through the cancer lens, you realize how many people are going through challenges and that you are never truly alone.”
– Cynthia HayesAlways remember, whatever you are going through right now, you are never alone. Now you have these breast cancer quotes and sayings with you through this journey.
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