Howard Cosell Quotes

When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

Stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that way; I've always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I've gone through.

What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it's not easy.

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

This is a beautiful life we lead in spite of whatever things come against us or whatever team loses or wins.

Fight with a happy heart.