The only thing that I can think of is:

“Self Control brings good Character.”

“I’m A Work In Progress”

( and what a great idea by the way)

:o)

Attitude Quotes-

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright (1876 – 1944)

I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975

Complaining is good for you as long as you’re not complaining to the person you’re complaining about.

Lynn Johnston (1947 – ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington (1732 – 1802)

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James (1842 – 1910)

Success Quotes-

To succeed is nothing, it’s an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein (1886 – 1982)

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby (1937 – )

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 – 1969), speech, April 2, 1957

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Discovery Quotes:

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A. A. Milne (1882 – 1956)

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide (1869 – 1951)

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001)

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny …’

Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992)

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727), From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce (1882 – 1941)

Random Quotes:

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967), (attributed)

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Saunders, last words

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250

Harper’s Index, October 1989

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978)

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Anatole France (1844 – 1924)

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001), “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849), “Eleonora”

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Schiller (1759 – 1805)

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: – ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968), Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

Tommy Cooper

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), “Hamlet”, Act 1 scene 5

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ), O Magazine, February 2003

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902)

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

Cyril Connolly (1903 – 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)

USA Today has come out with a new survey – apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

David Letterman (1947 – )

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal (1925 – )

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette (1873 – 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King (1947 – ), “Hearts in Atlantis”

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge (1909 – 2000)

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden (1907 – 1973)

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals (1858 – 1928)

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945)

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Schiller (1759 – 1805)

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955), (attributed)

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967), The People, Yes (1936)

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau (1841 – 1929)

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin (1880 – 1973)

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955)

You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers (1879 – 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay