Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Heywood Hale Broun (American Journalist)

Heywood Hale Broun (1918–2001) was an acclaimed American sportswriter, commentator, and humorist known for his distinctive wit and insightful observations on sports and culture.

Born in New York City into a prominent journalistic family, with his father being the renowned newspaper columnist Heywood Broun, he initially pursued a career as a newspaper columnist before gaining recognition as a sports commentator on radio and television. Broun’s eloquent and humorous style, combined with a deep passion for sports, endeared him to audiences and solidified his place in the media landscape.

Broun authored A Word or Two Before You Go… (1973,) a collection of commentaries and essays spanning topics beyond sports, showcasing his versatility and keen social commentary. Additional works include A Studied Madness (1965,) Tumultuous Merriment (1979,) and Whose Little Boy Are You?: A Memoir of the Broun Family (1983.)

A fixture on television, Broun contributed to programs such as CBS Sunday Morning and Not for Women Only, earning a reputation as a cultural icon due to his distinctive voice and engaging storytelling.

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The tragedy of life is not that man loses,
but that he almost wins.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Virtue, Life, Resolve, Life and Living, Endurance, Perseverance, Vice

In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: The Artist

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Posterity

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
—Heywood Hale Broun

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Work

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Fighting, Politicians, Politics

We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart.
—Heywood Hale Broun

Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Journalists, Journalism

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Atheism

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Fanaticism

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Ability, Sex

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Pessimism

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Committees

Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital.
—Heywood Hale Broun

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