In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I’ve compiled these quotes to inspire, give hope and encourage those battling the disease. As well as to participate in the awareness campaign.
Inspirational Quotes For Breast Cancer Awareness
You can use and share them. Someone might need to read them.
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"I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam."
~ Giuliana Rancic
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“Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm."
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
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“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?"
~ Lance Armstrong
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“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
~ Kenji Miyazawa
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"Cancer is a word, not a sentence."
~ John Diamon
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"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."
~ Ingrid Bergman
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"We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell."
~ Lance Armstrong
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"Cancer affects all of us, whether you’re a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient."
~ Jennifer Aniston
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"What does not kill us makes us stronger."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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"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
Here is the latest one trending on social media. Annie took the awareness campaign to another level. She had a photoshoot to create more awareness about cancer and the importance of self examination.
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| Source: BMF |
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"Recent studies have shown that 20% of breast cancer is discovered by self examination rather than mammography and we must realize that cancer is not a respecter of persons. It could happen to anyone, even I Annie Idibia. Imagine the lives that will be saved if more women physically checked themselves on a regular basis, imagine if we could stand against breast cancer by fighting the odds via self examination. Let’s save the life of a woman today, let‘s examine ourselves today!"
~ Annie Macaulay-Idibia
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“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
~ Maya Angelou
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"There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection."
~ Ann Jillian
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“Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.”
~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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"There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid."
~ Frederick W. Cropp
~ Frederick W. Cropp
". . .Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."
~ Deutronomy 31:6
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I'd never say "I know how you feel" because I don't. I personally love to write out some of my favourite quotes. I mean write in the literal sense of it. When I’m having a bad day there is something about pulling out a card or jotter, seeing handwriting, reading a message. It’s just more personal than seeing it on a screen. Real paper, real writing is very soothing. What say you?
Be positive. Be inspired. Be encouraged.
