I'm A Cancer Survivor Quotes

#1. That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

Dorothea Dix

#2. The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.

Shannon O'Brien

#3. 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

#4. We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

Peter Jennings

#5. As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

Shelley Hamlin

#6. Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.

Norman Spinrad

#7. Health is real wealth and peace of mind is real happiness. Plant seeds which will bear colorful flowers and make the garden of your life bloom with their fragrance.

Sanchita Pandey

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

Olivia Newton-John

#9. The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.

Lance Armstrong

#10. Heaven is freakin' not ready for me! - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

Deana J. Driver

#11. The truth is, bad things are going to happen somewhere, every single day, and today was just your turn.

Cody McFadyen

#12. You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

Dave Pelzer

#13. All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

Lance Armstrong

#15. I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.

Jenna Morasca

#16. 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

#17. Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.

Jessica Simpson

#18. Don't worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real.

Jill Shalvis

#19. For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

John Barrasso

#20. I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.

Jenna Morasca

#21. I'm never going to give in. I'm never going to give up, and I will fight back with every breath I have.
- Dionne Warner, seven-time cancer survivor and subject of Never Leave Your Wingman

Deana J. Driver

#22. I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer.

Italia Ricci

#23. Happiness and sorrow are two sides of the same coin called life. Whatever befalls you, walk on unattached.

Sanchita Pandey

#24. You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable. - Graham Warner, husband of fun-loving seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner

Deana J. Driver

#25. Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

Carly Fiorina

#26. I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

Kathy Bates

#27. To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Octavio Paz

#28. 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

#29. We normally know we're getting older when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded; unless you're a cancer survivor! Then we love people reminding us!

Chris Geiger

#30. I can feel his soul through his lips. It's telling me a story of agony over how long it's waited for this moment and how it never wants it to end.

Tara Elizabeth

#31. Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

R. H. Tawney