Walter E. Williams Quotes

As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is possible.

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.

Anywhere you go, where people are at the bottom, we've all got the same outlook on life and want to strive for more.

I set my own goals higher than what anybody else has set for me.

I'm not just a pretty face. I want to pursue something.

I expect greatness out of myself.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to make things better.

You have to define growth to yourself. If you ask yourself what you want, and if the answers are big, then you have to work towards it.

I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.

I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that’s what really gets me going.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."

No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

I'm just a regular guy that had a dream and ran for it.