Cancer Courage Quotes

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.

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.

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.

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

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

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

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

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Things must be felt with the heart.

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.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Beautiful people do not just happen

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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!

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear...

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.