Quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Success

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Friendship

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Courage

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Love

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Love

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Love

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Success

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Education

I want to reclaim who I am.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Life

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Wisdom

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Life