Harvey Mackay Quotes

In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

Life is supposed to get tough.

I like struggle.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.