Top 100 Elizabeth Edwards Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

2. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

4. “I’m not a victim – I never want to be perceived that way.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

5. “Concentrate on the things that matter to you.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

10. “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

11. “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

12. “You never know when something’s going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

13. “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

14. “You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

16. “Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That’s brave.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

17. “You’re young. Maybe there’ll be time for a do-over if you don’t get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there’s no time for a do-over.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

18. “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

19. “A lot of sad stories in a row – that wears on you.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

22. “You don’t have to be perfect; you just have to be open.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

23. “We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

24. “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. 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

25. “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

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

31. “I’m a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

32. “Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

34. “Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

35. “Maybe we all change over time.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

37. “It’s more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

38. “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

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

40. “I don’t expect to get yesterday’s medicine. If I can help it, I’d like to get tomorrow’s medicine.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

41. “I took my son’s name. I didn’t take my husband’s name.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

42. “You wouldn’t know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

44. “The military is already sexually integrated.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

45. “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

46. “Tabloid news is tabloid news.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

48. “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

49. “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

50. “We’re all going to die.”

— Elizabeth Edwards