Quotes About Achievement

I don't want to pretend. I want to achieve, really achieve. Or I will take my disappointments like anyone else.

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

Are you enviable? How can you make yourself enviable?

There's no final resting place — short of death — where you can stop having to earn what you want.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The 'C' students run the world.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says, "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

To win one Moonman is amazing, to win two is incredible.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.