Best 84 quotes of Elizabeth Edwards on MyQuotes

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Almost everybody embraces life.

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.

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

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.

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

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

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.

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

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

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

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

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

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

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

He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.

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.

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.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

I come out of real life.

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.

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

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.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

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

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

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

I have a husband who adores me.

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

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.

I hope I have important things to say.

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

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

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

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.