Paul Harvey Aurandt better known as Paul Harvey was an American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio. He broadcast News and Comment on mornings and mid-days on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays and also his famous The Rest of the Story segments. From 1951 to 2008, his programs reached as many as 24 million people per week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, on 400 American Forces Network stations, and in 300 newspapers. These Paul Harvey quotes will motivate you.
Best Paul Harvey Quotes
- “Communism has defeated itself everywhere except… in American colleges.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?” ~ Paul Harvey
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“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won’t work without self-discipline.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it’s uphill all the way.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, “What’s your secret?” and I will tell them, “I just get up again when I fall down.”” ~ Paul Harvey
- “If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “The years don’t always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “We’ve drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“Growth is the process of responding positively to change.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Not everybody wants to call sin ‘sin’! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line. … Our courts are … trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God’s Word.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren’t nearly good enough…so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody’s.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “These things I wish for you tough times and disappointment, hard work, and happiness. To me, it’s the only way to appreciate life.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“If you don’t live it, you don’t believe it.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize-winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don’t like.” ~ Paul Harvey, Paul Harvey quotes on luck
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“The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it’s the one.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it’s worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“Self Government won’t work without self-discipline.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Like what you do. If you don’t like it, do something else.” ~ Paul Harvey, Paul Harvey quotes on work
- “Each generation imagines that we’re all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“The only ones to get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Stay in your seat come times of trouble. It’s only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using ‘Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes’)…, ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticized (him) for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state, and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it’s one whose importance is underestimated in the West.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“I just get up again when I fall down.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It’s how we measure the starting of life and it’s how we measure the ending of life.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Mr. President, I love you, but you’re wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)” ~ Paul Harvey
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“Dependency arguments often come from elites – either aid agencies or governments – and say something about attitudes to poor people.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you’d rather live than now?” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Life must always go on and Yoga is not about an escape from life. Yoga’s about a way of dealing with life more effectively; to be able to involve oneself with one’s family, one’s friends, one’s social commitments, one’s job and yet at the same time maintain one’s center.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “When people come to Yoga, they are perhaps coming to it at the end of a long series of alternatives, and they’re looking for something that’s going to act very quickly. But Yoga is not a quick answer.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. … There is no one who will ever come close to him.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Everything you use in a modern lifestyle has to be made using a tool of some sort.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “For me the breath really is the tool which allows you to understand what’s happening on the mental level and what’s happening on the emotional level, and it also allows you to measure what’s happening on a physical level.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“Golf is a game in which you yell “for,” shoot six, and write down five.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “…Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “Yoga aims to bring about a situation where the mind is quieter and more effective. It’s not only about relaxation, it’s also about improving our energy. It’s about making us more decisive and at the same time better able to judge a situation clearly.” ~ Paul Harvey
