100+ Inspirational Quotes for Battling Cancer: Strength and Hope

In the battle against cancer, words have power, offering hope and strength even in the darkest of times. This article shares a collection of inspirational quotes designed to uplift, motivate, and encourage those fighting this challenging illness. From reminders of strength and resilience to embracing positivity and courage, these quotes serve as a beacon of light. Empowering individuals and their loved ones with insights from great thinkers and activists, these words echo an indomitable spirit. Each themed section provides twelve potent quotes that resonate with different aspects of the cancer journey. Whether you're a patient, survivor, or supporter, these quotes aim to inspire and remind everyone that together, we can stand boldly against cancer with unwavering determination and hope.
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." – Mahatma Gandhi
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." – Bob Marley
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." – Sun Tzu
"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." – Christopher Reeve
"You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." – Brian Tracy
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." – Carl Jung
"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength." – Napoleon Bonaparte
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." – William Ellery Channing
"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about." – Unknown
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." – George Eliot
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." – Rumi
"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." – Matsuo Bashō
"You are not broken. You are aggressively shaped to be something magnificent." – Glennon Doyle
"Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice, it takes love." – Maza Dohta
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." – Helen Keller
"To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear." – Stephen Levine
"You can’t heal what you don’t acknowledge." – Dr. Phil
"True healing involves the whole person: body, mind, and spirit." – Unknown
"In adversity, remember to keep the faith, for the path to healing is paved with faith." – Unknown
"We don't ‘move on’ from grief. We move forward with it." – Nora McInerny
"Sickness wakes us up to our inner as well as outer universe, and healing awakens us to new beginnings." – Michael Meade
"Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there." – Unknown
"It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." – Confucius
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." – Walter Elliot
"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying." – John C. Maxwell
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, or a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." – Vince Lombardi
"The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost
"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer." – Albert Einstein
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." – Elbert Hubbard
"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time." – George M. Moore Jr.
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." – Emily Dickinson
"Once you choose hope, anything’s possible." – Christopher Reeve
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." – Tom Bodett
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." – Martin Luther
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." – Desmond Tutu
"Where there is no vision, there is no hope." – George Washington Carver
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope." – Barbara Kingsolver
"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. Where there's life, there's hope." – Stephen Hawking
"In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced." – Fritz Knapp
"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." – Robert Green Ingersoll
"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." – Robert Schuller
"Never underestimate the power of hope." – Unknown
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." – Ambrose Redmoon
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway." – John Wayne
"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." – Winston Churchill
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." – Mark Twain
"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have strength." – Napoleon Bonaparte
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage." – Anaïs Nin
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’" – Mary Anne Radmacher
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." – William Shakespeare
"Courage isn’t about the absence of fear, it’s experiencing fear and moving forward anyway." – Unknown
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." – E.E. Cummings
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." – Corrie ten Boom
"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." – Rabindranath Tagore
"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible." – Corrie ten Boom
"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." – Helen Keller
"Faith does not make things easy, it makes them possible." – Luke 1:37
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." – Helen Keller
"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods." – C.S. Lewis
"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness." – Henry David Thoreau
"Faith isn't always a leap into the dark; sometimes it's a step into the bright." – Unknown
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." – Thomas Aquinas
"Life without faith is like a camera without focus." – Unknown
"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one who has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." – Mary Holloway
"Our present is our past. Our past is our future. Our future is now. We must be resilient." – Farshad Asl
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." – Maya Angelou
"It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop." – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets, or how far you fall, you are never out of the fight." – Marcus Luttrell
"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance." – Jodi Picoult
"It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." – Epictetus
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." – Nelson Mandela
"When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience." – Jaeda DeWalt
"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away." – Wes Fessler
"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman
"The most wasted of days is one without laughter." – E.E. Cummings
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." – Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results." – Willie Nelson
"Positive anything is better than negative nothing." – Elbert Hubbard
"If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means, keep moving." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door." – Milton Berle
"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive." – Matt Cameron
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." – Theodore Roosevelt
"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present." – Eckhart Tolle
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." – C.S. Lewis
"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." – Napoleon Hill
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." – Marcus Aurelius
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." – Robert F. Kennedy
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." – Walter Bagehot
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." – Suzy Kassem
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau
"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." – Christian D. Larson
"The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles." – Unknown
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." – Dalai Lama
"Life is an adventure to be lived, not a problem to be solved." – John Eldredge
"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." – John Lennon
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters." – Audrey Hepburn
"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It’s not the length of life, but the depth of life." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet." – Sarah Louise Delany
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." – Albert Schweitzer