True success depends more on character than on intellect.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

I write, like anybody else, about how it is to be human." -- Mark Merlis

The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be, " Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.

When a man can't sleep, he won't let anybody else sleep either. If he doesn't go off to dreamland the moment his head hits the pillow, he gets frightfully annoyed and won't stay in bed.

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.