Paul Harvey Aurandt, better known as Paul Harvey, was a conservative American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. Profoundly inspirational Paul Harvey quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
Famous Paul Harvey Quotes
God said, and on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, I need a caretaker. Paul Harvey
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. Paul Harvey
God said, I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Paul Harvey
When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall. Paul Harvey
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds. Paul Harvey
When America’s early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all. Paul Harvey
God said, somebody, to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait for lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies. Paul Harvey
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he’d have to be a genius. For he will have to feed a family on a policeman’s salary. Paul Harvey
God said, it had to be somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake, and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self feeder. Paul Harvey
If pro is the opposite of con what is the opposite of progress? Paul Harvey
God said, I need somebody who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back, put in another seventy two hours. Paul Harvey
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. Paul Harvey
Like what you do. If you don’t like it, do something else. Paul Harvey
Golf is a game in which you yell fore, shoot six, and write down five. Paul Harvey
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Paul Harvey
Like what you do. If you don’t like it, do something else. Paul Harvey
I just get up again when I fall down. Paul Harvey
One vote. That’s a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote. Paul Harvey
Self government won’t work without self discipline. Paul Harvey
If pro is the opposite of con what is the opposite of progress? Paul Harvey
We were poor, but we didn’t know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don’t remember ever being hungry. Paul Harvey
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn’t take any practice. Paul Harvey
I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Paul Harvey
In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it’s the one. Paul Harvey
What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He’s a strangely nameless creature who is Sir to his face and Fuzz to his back. Paul Harvey
If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Paul Harvey
Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they’ve been leaving us. We’ll manage. Paul Harvey
If you don’t live it, you don’t believe it. Paul Harvey
Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I’ve been uncomfortable looking back. Paul Harvey
The years don’t always add wisdom, but they do add perspective. Paul Harvey
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is. Paul Harvey
You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it’s uphill all the way. Paul Harvey
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size. 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
Dependency arguments often come from elites either aid agencies or governments and say something about attitudes to poor people. Paul Harvey
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. Paul Harvey
When America’s early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all. Paul Harvey
The man I’m going to tell you about was not a scrooge, he was a kind decent, mostly good man. Generous to his family and upright in his dealings with other men. Paul Harvey
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he’d have to be a genius. For he will have to feed a family on a policeman’s salary. Paul Harvey
He went to the window to watch the flurries getting heavier and heavier and then he went back to his fireside chair and began to read his newspaper. Paul Harvey
Government has to be cut back like asparagus every day or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there’s too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. Paul Harvey
Minutes later he was startled by a thudding sound. Then another and then another. Paul Harvey
The sound reached his ears above the sounds of the wind. He stood there listening to the bells, Adeste Fidelis, listening to the bells pealing the glad tidings of Christmas. Paul Harvey
Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five. Paul Harvey
He just couldn’t swallow the Jesus story, about God coming to Earth as a man. Paul Harvey
One vote. That’s a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote. Paul Harvey
At first he thought someone must be throwing snowballs against the living room window. But when he went to the front door to investigate he found a flock of birds huddled outside miserably in the snow. Paul Harvey
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn’t take any practice. Paul Harvey
He told his wife I’m truly sorry to distress you, but I’m not going with you to church this Christmas Eve. Paul Harvey
What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He’s a strangely nameless creature who is Sir to his face and Fuzz to his back. Paul Harvey
But the man just didn’t believe in all of that incarnation stuff that the churches proclaim at Christmas time. Paul Harvey
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size. Paul Harvey
Dependency arguments often come from elites either aid agencies or governments and say something about attitudes to poor people. Paul Harvey
A policeman must know everything – and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake. 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
As industry’s tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor’s leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing. 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
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
It was self serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each o pockets and somehow get rich. Paul Harvey
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
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
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, criticised him for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum. Paul Harvey
In times like these it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. Paul Harvey
