Harvey Mackay Quotes

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Don't let the bastards get you down.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.