Quotes by Harry S. Truman

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

I always remember an epitaph in the cemetery at Tombstone, AZ. 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 the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I hav…