Art Williams Quotes

“A cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him. He must always tell the truth. He must be gentle with children, the elderly and animals. He must be free from racial and religious prejudices. He must help people in distress. He must be a good worker. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action and personal habits. He must respect women, parents and his nation’s laws. The Cowboy is a patriot.”

“A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a 'cause' with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs.”

“A great leader always gives his people credit for his success.”

“A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.”

“Almost is almost a way of life for almost everybody.”

“Crusaders commit to something bigger than their business.”

“Everybody can talk a good game. We need people who can do it.”

“I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.”

“I believe you can overcome every problem in life but an attitude problem. I've spent a lot of my adult life studying men and women and why most of them lose and only a few win. It took me a long time to really understand what a big part attitude played in success.”

“I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear – the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.”

“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.”

“If you don't have a big dream, you're dead.”

“If you want to win, you've got to change.”

“It's not how much you make, it's how much you save.”

“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”

“Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years... or as long as it takes to win.”

“My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.”

“Nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.”

“People won't follow a dull, disillusioned, frustrated crybaby.”

“Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!”

“To win you must pay the price. If you haven't won you haven't paid the price.”

“What’s the primary difference between winners and losers? The winners do it, and do it, and do it, and do it… until the job gets done.”

“Win with your heart, not your head. Win on emotion, not in logic. Have a passion about what you do.”

“You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.”

“You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.”

“Your success doesn't depend on anybody else but you.”

“Remember, before you can be great, you’ve got to be good. Before you can be good, you’ve got to be bad. But before you can even be bad, you’ve got to try.”

“You can be the most common person in the world and still do something uncommon with your life.”

“All you can do is all you can do. But all you can do is enough.”