67 Quotes about Breast Cancer for Inspiration and Awareness

No woman expects to be diagnosed with breast cancer, but unfortunately, hundreds, if not thousands, of women around the world are being diagnosed with this type of cancer every day.

Although this cancer can be treated if it’s detected early, it continues to claim hundreds of thousands of lives every year. That’s why patients with breast cancer need words of encouragement and awareness to help them keep fighting. This article offers you 67 quotes about breast cancer for inspiration and awareness.

67 Quotes about Breast Cancer for Inspiration and Awareness

Breast Cancer Quotes for Inspiration

1. “More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.” — Sheryl Crow
2. “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
3. “Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn’t afraid of anything anymore.” — Melissa Etheridge
4. “We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.” — Lance Armstrong
5. “The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.” — Gilda Radner
6. “And if it comes back, I’ll keep fighting.” — Nicole Kramer
7. “Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.” — Mindy Sterling
8. “My diagnosis flung me into despair until it hit me: I’m alive.” — Dana Dinerman
9. “When we embrace uncertainty, it can be very liberating. If you can accept the uncertainty, it allows you to live life every day.” — Victor Gospodinoff
10. “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
11. “Since I had cancer, I’ve realized that every day is a bonus.” — Geoffrey Boycott
12. “I’m battling cancer. It’s another battle I intend to win.” — Arlen Specter
13. “Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.” — Michael Douglas
14. “I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer, but to act on it, to give themselves an exam.” — Giuliana Rancic
15. “No matter what the statistics say, there is always a way.” — Bernie Siegel
16. “Don’t let breast cancer take away the motivation to achieve your dreams.” — Diana Cohen
17. “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
18. “I have lived over a decade now without a mom. She met only a few of her grandchildren and was often too sick to play with them. My mother fought the disease for a decade and made it into her 50s. My grandmother died in her 40s. I’m hoping my choices allow me to live a bit longer.” — Angelina Jolie
19. “Fight each round, take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.” — Olivia Newton-John
20. “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.” — Norman Vincent Peale
21. “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
22. “The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.” — Allen Klein
23. “Don’t delegate your survival to the doctors and hope for the best. You have to participate in your own cure. You have to fight.” — Lawrence Wray
24. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” — Arianna Huffington
25. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
26. “Cancer didn’t bring me to my knees; it brought me to my feet.” — Michael Douglas
27. “Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.” — Ingrid Bergman
28. “Surviving cancer treatment is like coming home from war.” — Saskia Lightstar
29. “Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.” — Greg Anderson
30. “Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.” — Ruth Ann Schabacker
31. “I always look on the positive side and in a weird way just thought of it as another adventure. Not for a single second did it go through my head that I was going to die.” — Caroline Monk
32. “I’m stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been, ‘This too shall pass.’ I now understand it really well.” — Robin Roberts
33. “I’m here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.” — Wanda Sykes
34. “The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” — C.C. Scott
35. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” — Cayla Mills
36. “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
37. “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
38. “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
39. “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
40. “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
41. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” — Orison Swett Marden
42. “To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” — Katherine Paterson
43. “Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” — Alex Karras

Breast Cancer Quotes for Awareness

44. “Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.” — Hippocrates
45. “The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.” — Nikolai Lenin
46. “With breast cancer, it’s all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.” — Bill Rancic
47. “If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with ‘sad eyes.’ Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.” — Hoda Kotb
48. “Breast cancer changes you, and the change can be beautiful.” — Jane Cook
49. “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
50. “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
51. “Once cancer happens, it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.” — Hayley Mills
52. “I personally know women who are breast cancer survivors and I will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!” — Jane Wiedlin
53. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to be really afraid of is if you don’t go get your mammograms.” — Cynthia Nixon
54. “Have your own experience and trust your intuition. A million people will tell you what you should and shouldn’t be doing, but you know yourself and your body best—do what you think is right.” — Christina Steinorth-Powell
55. “I would like to take the stigma away. ‘Mastectomy,’ the word seemed too scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.” — Giuliana Rancic
56. “When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.” — Terri Clark
57. “There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.” — Ann Jillian
58. “If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a bloody army to battle cancer.” — Niyati Tamaskar
59. “If a relative has suffered ovarian or breast cancer, get the genetic screening. It saves lives.” — Lisa Jey Davis
60. “Cancer affects all of us, whether you’re a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient.” — Jennifer Aniston
61. “Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family’s story. That’s why I am so passionate about raising awareness because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others.” — DeAngelo Williams
62. “Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it but don’t forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.” — Regina Brett
63. “It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.” — Janet Napolitano
64. “Cancer is really hard to go through and it’s really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.” — Cynthia Nixon
65. “My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, and give pleasure. In sickness, you realize that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.” — Federico Fellini
66. “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
67. “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