Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

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

Attitude, Die, Going, Short Time

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

Positive, Grateful, Living, Impact

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

Strength, Our, Our Lives, Numbered

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

New, Before, Had, Resilience

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

Hope, My Life, Through, Resilience

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Record, Campaign, Funds, Distributed

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Lost, Goes, Two-Year-Old, Grieving

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Insurance, Reform, Health Reform

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Think, Frank, Perfectly, Odd

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Life, Lot, Intend

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

Sometimes, Important Thing, Nest

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Think, Marry, I Think, Marvelous

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Think, Human Being, I Think, Self-Knowledge

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Law, Practice, Recovering, Changed

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Brave, Run, Burning, Firemen

I'm a puzzle doer.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Puzzle, Doer

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

College, Carolina, North, Graduate School

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Believe, Saved, Save, Promises

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

- Elizabeth Edwards

People, Enormous, Then, Make A Difference

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Marriage, Gay, Comfortable, Gay Marriage

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

Challenges, Think, I Think, Gay Marriage

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Think, Funding, I Think, Stem-Cell

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Think, Dissecting, Babies, Stem-Cell

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody, Makes, Having, Analyzed

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Behind, Find, Left, Blessing

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Carry, Everybody, Them, Burdens

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

- Elizabeth Edwards

You, Matter, Things, Concentrate

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Think, Needs, I Think, First Of All

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Knock, Going, Particular Way, Loose

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Straight, Straight Line, Up And Down

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Think, Including, Wide Range, Consideration

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Tone, Everybody, Use, Forgets

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Happen, Going, About, Worried

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Doing, Yesterday, Either, Push

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Sad, Stories, Lot, Row

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Politics, Think, Limb, Advised

I loved campaigning.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Loved, Campaigning

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Know, You, Guarantees

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

Woman, Thought, Always, Imperfect

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Children, Teach, How, Respond

I want to reclaim who I am.

- Elizabeth Edwards

I Am, Want, Am, Reclaim

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Want, Part, Sort, Reclaim

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Never, Want, Perceived, Victim

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

Living, Nothing, Utter, Resilience

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

Matters, Over, Deciding, Resilience

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Think, Over, Deny, Intention

I come out of real life.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Life, Real, Come, Real Life

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Know, Experiences, Had, Replaced

The military is already sexually integrated.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Military, Integrated, Sexually

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Medicine, Alive, Until, Catch

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Love, Living, Disease, To Love

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

Admire, Other, Lives, Beings

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Family, Live, Try, Obligation

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Shoulders, Shakes, Having, Cancer

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Me, Get, Honestly, Feed

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Other, Been, Held, Holds

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Like, Having, Seemed, Furniture

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Die, Some, Going, Great Hope

My father had gone to Vietnam.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Father, Gone, Had, Vietnam

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Voice, Feet, Dig, Politicians

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Some, Everybody, Having, Politicians

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

- Elizabeth Edwards

My Own, Could, Which, Grips

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Sure, Every Opportunity, Daughters

Almost everybody embraces life.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Life, Everybody, Almost, Embraces

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

- Elizabeth Edwards

News, Tabloid

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Fighter, See, Recognize, Survivor

I hope I have important things to say.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Important, Say, Things, Important Things

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

- Elizabeth Edwards

My Own, Lot, Spent, Mortality

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Never, Lot, Were, Had Enough

I have a husband who adores me.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Me, Husband, Who, Adore

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Love, Getting, I Love, Spending Time

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Parent, Never, Although, Younger

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Son, Took, Take, Husband

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Race, Always, Been, Whenever

I grew up in a Navy family.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Family, Navy, Up, Grew

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Tell, Been, About, Shoes

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

- Elizabeth Edwards

Think, Want, Like, Worst Thing

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Happy, Parent, Through, Period

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Girl, Course, Point, Wrote

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Help, Yesterday, Expect, Medicine

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Get, Up, Actually, Energetic

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Death, Television, Honestly, Newspaper

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Know, Knew, Unless, Sick

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Woman, Black, Also, Achieve

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

Work, Marriage, Lot, Family

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