Cabell, James: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Cabell: U.S. author of fantasy fiction and other genres, 1879-1958) Categories: OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM

Cabu, Jean: Sometimes laughter hurts, but humor and mockery are our only weapons. (Jean Cabu: French cartoonist and co-founder of the publication ‘Charlie Hebdo,’ 1938-2015) Categories: HUMOR, LAUGHTER

Caecus, Appius C.: Every man is the architect of his own fortune. (Appius C. Caecus: Roman writer and statesman who was responsible for the building of Rome's first road and first aqueduct, 340 B.C.E.—273 B.C.E.) Categories: SELF-DETERMINATION, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Caesar, Augustus: Hasten slowly. (Augustus Caesar: Founder of the Roman Principate and considered the first Roman Emperor, controlling the Roman Empire from 27 B.C.E. until his death, 63 B.C.E.—14 C.E.) Categories: CAUTION, PRUDENCE

Caesar, Augustus: If you want a rainbow, you have to deal with the rain. (Augustus Caesar: Founder of the Roman Principate and considered the first Roman Emperor, controlling the Roman Empire from 27 B.C.E. until his death, 63 B.C.E.—14 C.E.) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, GOALS

Caesar, Julius: Experience is the teacher of all things. (Julius Caesar: Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the rise of the Roman Empire, 100—44 B.C.E.) Categories: EXPERIENCE, LEADERSHIP, LEARNING

Caesar, Julius: Give the people bread and circuses [diversion], and they will go along with it. (Julius Caesar: Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the rise of the Roman Empire, 100—44 B.C.E.) Categories: GOVERNMENT, POLITICS

Caesar, Julius: The die is cast. (Julius Caesar: Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the rise of the Roman Empire, 100—44 B.C.E.) Categories: IRREVERSIBILITY

Caesar, Julius: Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered). (Julius Caesar: Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the rise of the Roman Empire, 100—44 B.C.E.) Categories: CONQUEST, SUCCESS

Cahn, Peggy: I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. (Peggy Cahn: U.S. nurse and youth organizer, died 2012) Categories: GRATIFICATION

Calder, Nigel: Science does correct itself and that's the reason why science is such a glorious thing for our species. (Nigel Calder: British science writer, 1931-2014) Categories: SCIENCE

Calkins, Earnest: There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words. (Earnest Calkins: U.S. advertising executive who was deaf and pioneered the use of art in advertising, 1868-1964) Categories: COMMUNICATION, WORDS

Calvin, John: The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. (John Calvin: French theologian, pastor, and reformer during the Protestant Reformation, 1509-1564) Categories: CONSCIENCE

Camden, William: Better half a loaf than no bread. (William Camden: English historian and topographer, 1551-1623) Categories: ACCEPTANCE

Cameron, Julia: Leap, and the net will appear. (Julia Cameron: U.S. artist, writer, and composer, Born 1948) Categories: BRAVERY, RISK

Cameron, W. B.: Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (W. B. Cameron: U.S. author, columnist, and humorist, Born 1960) Categories: WORTHINESS

Campbell, Joseph: A hero is someone who has given his or her own life to something bigger than oneself. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987) Categories: HEROES

Campbell, Joseph: Follow your bliss. Don't be afraid and doors will open where you would not have thought there were going to be doors. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, BLISS, RISK

Campbell, Joseph: If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987) Categories: CHANGE, IMPROVISATION

Campbell, Joseph: The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, FEAR

Campbell, Joseph: The cave you rear to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987) Categories: COURAGE, FEAR

Campbell, Joseph: We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987) Categories: LIFE, OPENNESS, PLANNING, RELINQUISHMENT

Campbell, Thomas: Coming events cast their shadows before. (Thomas Campbell: Scottish poet, co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and an initiator of what became the University College London, 1777-1844) Categories: PLANNING

Campbell, Thomas: To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. (Thomas Campbell: Scottish poet, co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and an initiator of what became the University College London, 1777-1844) Categories: LEGACIES, MEMORY, RELATIONSHIPS

Campbell, Thomas: Truth ever lovely—since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. (Thomas Campbell: Scottish poet, co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and an initiator of what became the University College London, 1777-1844) Categories: TRUTH

Camus, Albert: As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: CITIES, POPULATION

Camus, Albert: Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: TREES, AUTUMN

Camus, Albert: Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: MUTUALITY, RELATIONSHIPS

Camus, Albert: Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: CHARM

Camus, Albert: Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Camus, Albert: If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: ACTIVISM, IMPACT

Camus, Albert: In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: ADVERSITY, INVINCIBILITY, HOPE

Camus, Albert: Life is the sum of all your choices. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: CHOICES, LIFE

Camus, Albert: Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: FEAR, RESPECT

Camus, Albert: Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: GIVING

Camus, Albert: There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: HOPELESSNESS, LABOR

Camus, Albert: Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: ASSISTANCE, CHARITY, GENEROSITY

Camus, Albert: We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS, SELF-IMAGE

Capote, Truman: Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Truman Capote: U.S. novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, 1924-1984) Categories: FAILURE, SUCCESS

Capra, Frank: A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Frank Capra: Italian-born U.S. film director, producer, and writer who received an Academy Award for Best Director, 1897-1991) Categories: CREATIVITY, HUNCHES, IDEAS

Capra, Frank: You can't take it with you. (Frank Capra: Italian-born U.S. film director, producer, and writer who received an Academy Award for Best Director, 1897-1991) Categories: ENJOYMENT, MATERIALISM, MONEY, SCREENPLAY, SPENDING

Capshaw, Kate: The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me. (Kate Capshaw: U.S. retired actress, Born 1953) Categories: MOTIVATION, RISK

Card, Olson S.: Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. (Olson S. Card: U.S. writer known best for his science fiction works) Categories: METAPHORS, SPEAKING, WRITING

Cardinal de Retz: Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most. (Cardinal de Retz: French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the French civil wars, 1613-1679) Categories: FEAR, JUDGMENT

Cardozo, Benjamin N.: We are what we believe we are. (Benjamin N. Cardozo: U.S. lawyer and jurist, 1870-1938) Categories: BELIEFS, SELF-IDENTITY

Carlin, George: I do not torture animals, and I do not support the torture of animals, such as that which goes on at rodeos: cowardly men in big hats abusing simple beasts in a fruitless search for manhood. (George Carlin: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author, 1937-2008) Categories: ANIMALS, MANHOOD

Carlin, George: Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music (George Carlin: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author, 1937-2008) Categories: DANCING

Carlyle, Thomas: A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: EMPLOYMENT, GOVERNMENT, WAGES

Carlyle, Thomas: All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: MORALITY, REFORM

Carlyle, Thomas: Biography is the only true history. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY

Carlyle, Thomas: Endurance is patience concentrated. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: ENDURANCE, PATIENCE

Carlyle, Thomas: Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: EXPERIENCE

Carlyle, Thomas: Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: HISTORY

Carlyle, Thomas: History is a distillation of rumor. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: HISTORY

Carlyle, Thomas: Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: HUMOR

Carlyle, Thomas: I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: IGNORANCE

Carlyle, Thomas: It is the heart always that sees before the head can see. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: PERCEPTION

Carlyle, Thomas: Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: IDLENESS

Carlyle, Thomas: Perseverance . . . inspite of all obstacles . . . it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong from the weak. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Carlyle, Thomas: Poetry, therefore, we will call 'Musical Thought.' (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: POETRY

Carlyle, Thomas: The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: OBSTACLES, VISION

Carlyle, Thomas: The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: FAULTS, SELF-AWARENESS

Carlyle, Thomas: The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: HISTORY, PAST

Carlyle, Thomas: The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: AWARENESS, LIFE, PERCEPTION, TRAGEDY

Carlyle, Thomas: When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881) Categories: NATURE, CONSEQUENCES

Carman, Bliss: Whether it be to failure or success, the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude. (Bliss Carman: Canadian poet who was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate, 1861-) Categories: ENDURANCE

Carnegie, Andrew: Surplus wealth is a sacred trust that its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. (Andrew Carnegie: U.S. industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919) Categories: WEALTH

Carnegie, Andrew: The man who dies rich dies disgraced. (Andrew Carnegie: U.S. industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919) Categories: WEALTH

Carnegie, Andrew: The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. (Andrew Carnegie: U.S. industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919) Categories: ATTENTION, CONCENTRATION, FOCUS

Carnegie, Dale: Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955) Categories: FAILURE, SUCCESS, DISCOURAGEMENT

Carnegie, Dale: Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955) Categories: ALACRITY, ENTHUSIASM, PRACTICALITY

Carnegie, Dale: Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, PERSISTENCE

Carnegie, Dale: One reason birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955) Categories: SELF-ACCEPTANCE

Carnegie, Dale: Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955) Categories: ANXIETY, WORRY

Carnegie, Dale: When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955) Categories: OPTIMISM, RESOURCEFULNESS

Carnegie, Dale: You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955) Categories: COMMUNICATION, CURIOSITY

Carnot, Lazare: In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering: in a despotic state there is little complaint but much suffering. (Lazare Carnot: French mathematician, physicist, military officer, and politician, 1753-1823) Categories: FREEDOM, DESPOTISM

Carpenter, Liz: What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. (Liz Carpenter: U.S. writer, feminist, reporter, and political humorist, 1920-2010) Categories: LETTER-WRITING

Carrel, Alexis: Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Alexis Carrel: Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for pioneering vascular suturing techniques, 1873-1944) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Carroll, Lewis: It is no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then]. (Lewis Carroll: English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1832-1898) Categories: PAST

Carroll, Lewis: It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that," [said the Queen]. (Lewis Carroll: English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1832-1898) Categories: COMPETITION, PERSEVERANCE

Carroll, Lewis: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. (Lewis Carroll: English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1832-1898) Categories: MEMORY

Carroll, Lewis: One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others. (Lewis Carroll: English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1832-1898) Categories: ASSISTANCE, CHARITY, KINDNESS

Carson, Rachel: As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. (Rachel Carson: U.S. marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement, 1907-1964) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, PESTICIDES

Carson, Rachel: For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. (Rachel Carson: U.S. marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement, 1907-1964) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, CHEMICALS

Carson, Rachel: In nature, nothing exists alone. (Rachel Carson: U.S. marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement, 1907-1964) Categories: NATURE

Carter, James (Jimmy): Pluralism: We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. (James (Jimmy) Carter: U.S. politician and humanitarian who served from 1977 to 1981 as the 39th president of the United States and was also the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1924-2024) Categories: PLURALISM, SOCIETY

Carter, Rosalynn: If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. (Rosalynn Carter: U.S. activist who served as First Lady of the United States as the wife of President Jimmy Carter, Born 1927) Categories: OPPORTUNITIES, RISK

Carter, Rosalynn: There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it. (Rosalynn Carter: U.S. activist who served as First Lady of the United States as the wife of President Jimmy Carter, Born 1927) Categories: REFORM, WOMEN

Carver, George W.: Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. (George W. Carver: U.S. agricultural scientist, inventor, and professor, 1863-1941) Categories: HATRED, FEAR

Carver, Raymond: Autobiography is the poor man’s history. (Raymond Carver: American short story writer and poet, 1938-1988) Categories: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Carville, James: It’s the economy, stupid. (James Carville: U.S. political consultant and author, Born 1944) Categories: ECONOMICS

Casals, Pablo: Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973) Categories: MUSIC, THIEVERY

Casals, Pablo: The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973) Categories: GOVERNMENT, INTERNATIONALISM, NATIONALISM

Casals, Pablo: The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973) Categories: MUSIC, PERFECTION, TECHNIQUES

Cash, Rosanne: The key to change . . . is to let go of fear. (Rosanne Cash: U.S. singer-songwriter, author, and the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash, Born 1955) Categories: BRAVERY, CHALLENGE, CHANGE, FEAR

Cassavetes, John: No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. (John Cassavetes: U.S. actor and director who is considered a pioneer of independent cinema and American cinema verité, 1929-1989) Categories: AGING, CREATIVITY

Castillego, Irene C.: We are new every day. (Irene C. Castillego: British-Spanish writer and Jungian analyst, 1885-1967) Categories: BEGINNINGS, LIFE, MORNINGS

Cather, Willa: I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. (Willa Cather: U.S. writer of frontier life and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1873-1947) Categories: ACCEPTANCE, EXPECTATIONS, NATURE

Cather, Willa: There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. (Willa Cather: U.S. writer of frontier life and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1873-1947) Categories: LEARNING, LIFE

Catherine the Great: Power without the people's confidence is nothing. (Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader, under whose reign Russia became revitalized and recognized as one of the great powers of Europe, 1729-1796) Categories: GOVERNMENT, POWER

Catt, Carrie C.: To the wrongs that need resistance/ To the right that needs assistance/ To the future in the distance/ Give yourselves. (Carrie C. Catt: U.S. women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women in 1920 the right to vote, 1859-1947) Categories: ACTION, CHANGE, EQUALITY, WOMEN

Cavell, Edith: I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. (Edith Cavell: British humanitarian and nurse who is celebrated for saving the lives of World War I soldiers from both sides without discrimination, 1865-1915) Categories: PATRIOTISM, INTERNATIONALISM

Celler, Emanuel: The power to investigate is a great public trust. (Emanuel Celler: U.S. statesman, 1888-1981) Categories: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Ceram, C. W.: Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. (C. W. Ceram: German journalist and editor, 1915-1972) Categories: GENIUS, SIMPLICITY

Cerf, Bennett: Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. (Bennett Cerf: U.S. publisher as one of the founders of Random House, as well as a humorist, and television game-show panelist on 'What’s My Line?' 1898-1971) Categories: AGING

Cervantes, Miguel de: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: ACCESSIBILITY, AVAILABILLITY

Cervantes, Miguel de: A stout heart breaks bad luck. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: DETERMINATION

Cervantes, Miguel de: A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: RISK, DIVERSIFICATION

Cervantes, Miguel de: All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: HEALTH, SORROW, DIVERSION

Cervantes, Miguel de: All that glisters is not gold. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: APPEARANCE, PERCEPTION

Cervantes, Miguel de: Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: CAUTION, ALERTNESS

Cervantes, Miguel de: Diligence is the mother of good fortune. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: DILIGENCE, FORTUNE

Cervantes, Miguel de: Dine on little, and sup on less. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: MODERATION, PRUDENCE

Cervantes, Miguel de: Hunger is the best sauce. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: HUNGER, APPETITE

Cervantes, Miguel de: Make hay while the sun shines. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: ACTION, OPPORTUNITY

Cervantes, Miguel de: Mum is the word. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: SECRECY

Cervantes, Miguel de: Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: CHANGE, INVESTIGATION

Cervantes, Miguel de: No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: SELF-DECEIT

Cervantes, Miguel de: One swallow alone does not make the summer. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: EVIDENCE, PREDICTIONS

Cervantes, Miguel de: The pen is the tongue of the mind. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: COMMUNICATION, WRITING

Cervantes, Miguel de: Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: NECESSITY, MOTIVATION

Cervantes, Miguel de: Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616) Categories: COURAGE, VALOR

Chace, William M.: The university must be a place so devoted to intellectual inquiry that academic freedom is upheld even in the face of extreme economic, social, and political pressures. (William M. Chace: President and Emeritus Professor of English at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University, Born 1938) Categories: ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Chagall, Marc: All our interior world is reality—and perhaps more so than our apparent world. (Marc Chagall: Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin whose creations include virtually every artistic format, 1887-1985) Categories: PERCEPTION, REALITY, SELF-AWARENESS

Chalmers, Allan K.: The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (Allan K. Chalmers: Scottish writer, 1759-1834) Categories: HAPPINESS

Chambers, C. H.: The long arm of coincidence (C. H. Chambers: Australian born playwright and journalist, active in England, 1860-1921) Categories: COINCIDENCE

Chamfort, Nicolas de: Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking. (Nicolas de Chamfort: French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms, 1741-1794) Categories: CONSCIENCE

Chamfort, Nicolas de: Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. (Nicolas de Chamfort: French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms, 1741-1794) Categories: HAPPINESS, PLEASURE

Chamin, Martin: You're never fully dressed without a smile (Martin Chamin: U.S. lyricist, writer, performer, theater director, and creator of "Annie," the Broadway musical hit,1934-1919) Categories: SMILES

Chamorro, Violeta B.: Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory. (Violeta B. Chamorro: Nicaraguan politician who served from 10 to 197as the president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997 as the country's first female president., 1929-2025) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS, RENEWAL

Chand, Sam: What we need is eloquent listening. (Sam Chand: U.S. pastor, author, international business consultant, and college president) Categories: LEADERSHIP, LISTENING

Chaney, John V.: The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. (John V. Chaney: U.S. poet, essayist, and librarian. 1848-11822) Categories: FEELINGS, PERCEPTION, SOUL

Chang, Candy: Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life. (Candy Chang: Chinese Canadian actress and graphic artist, Born 1989) Categories: DEATH

Channing, William E.: Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. (William E. Channing: U.S. Unitarian preacher and one of Unitarian's foremost theologians, 1780-1842) Categories: COMMUNICATION, INSIGHT, SENSITIVITY, PERSPICACITY, PERCEPTIVENESS

Channing, William E.: Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance. (William E. Channing: U.S. Unitarian preacher and one of Unitarian's foremost theologians, 1780-1842) Categories: MISTAKES, PROGRESS

Chapin, Edwin H.: Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. (Edwin H. Chapin: U.S. poet and preacher, 1814-1880) Categories: HEROES, SUFFERING

Chaplin, Charles: A day without laughter is a day wasted. (Charles Chaplin: English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film, 1889-1977) Categories: LAUGHTER

Chaplin, Charles: I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, gentile, black man, white. (Charles Chaplin: English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film, 1889-1977) Categories: OPEN-MINDEDNESS

Chaplin, Charles: Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles. (Charles Chaplin: English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film, 1889-1977) Categories: TROUBLES

Chapman, John J.: Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity (John J. Chapman: U.S. attorney and essayist who was considered in the front ranks of the U.S. essayists of his day, 1862-1933) Categories: GENERATIONS

Charcot, Jean-Martin: Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. (Jean-Martin Charcot: French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology, best known today for his work on hypnosis and hysteria, 1825-1893) Categories: ILLNESS, SIGNALS, SYMPTOMS

Charette, Francois de: You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. (Francois de Charette: French Royalist soldier and politician, 1763-1796) Categories: PLANNING, PREPARATION

Charles, Elizabeth: To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both. (Elizabeth Charles: English writer, 1828-1896) Categories: WRITING, SPEECH

Charles V: Iron hand in a velvet glove. (Charles V: Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of Spain, and Lord of the Netherlands, 1500-1558) Categories: GOVERNANCE

Charnaud, Stella I.: The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. (Stella I. Charnaud: English philanthropist who founded the Women's Voluntary Service and became the first female member in the House of Lords, 1894-1971) Categories: DECISIONS, EXPECTATIONS, PLANNING

Chartier, Emile: Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. (Emile Chartier: French philosopher, journalist, and pacifist, 1868-1951) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, IDEAS

Chase, Edna W.: Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. (Edna W. Chase: U.S. editor-in-chief of 'Vogue' magazine for 38 years, 1877-1957) Categories: FASHION, STYLE

Chaucer, Geoffrey: A guilty conscience needs no accuser (Geoffrey Chaucer: English poet, author, and civil servant, known for being called the "Father of English Literature," 1340-1400) Categories: CONSCIENCE, GUILT, SELF-AWARENESS

Chaucer, Geoffrey: Let sleeping dogs lie. (Also 'It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.' (Geoffrey Chaucer: English poet, author, and civil servant, known for being called the "Father of English Literature," 1340-1400) Categories: DELAY, DECISION

Chaucer, Geoffrey: Nothing ventured, nothing gained. (Geoffrey Chaucer: English poet, author, and civil servant, known for being called the "Father of English Literature," 1340-1400) Categories: RISK

Chavez, Cesar: I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. (Cesar Chavez: U.S. labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and Latino American civil rights activist, 1927-1993) Categories: VEGETARIANISM

Chazal, Malcolm de: The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. (Malcolm de Chazal: Mauritian writer and painter, 1902-1981) Categories: AWARENESS, SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Chazal, Malcolm de: The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property. (Malcolm de Chazal: Mauritian writer and painter, 1902-1981) Categories: ECONOMICS, NATURE

Chbosky, Stephen: Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. (Stephen Chbosky: U.S. screenwriter, film producer, film director, novelist, television writer, and television producer, Born 1970) Categories: BOOK-BANNING, BOOKS

Che Guevara, Ernesto: At the risk of sounding ridiculous, the true revolutionary is moved by feelings of love. (Ernesto Che Guevara: Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist, 1928-1967) Categories: LOVE, REVOLUTIONS

Che Guevara, Ernesto: Better to die standing than to live on your knees. (Ernesto Che Guevara: Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist, 1928-1967) Categories: COURAGE, PERSEVERANCE

Che Guevara, Ernesto: Silence is argument carried on by other means. (Ernesto Che Guevara: Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist, 1928-1967) Categories: ARGUMENT, SILENCE

Chekhov, Anton: Any idiot can face a crisis; it's day to day living that wears you out. (Anton Chekhov: Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904) Categories: MONOTONY

Chekhov, Anton: Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Anton Chekhov: Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904) Categories: MEDIA, TEACHING

Chekhov, Anton: If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. (Anton Chekhov: Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904) Categories: MARRIAGE

Chennault, Anna: Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege even better. (Anna Chennault: Chinese-born U.S. war correspondent, 1925-2018) Categories: PRIVILEGE

Chesterfield, Lord: Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773) Categories: MODESTY, WISDOM

Chesterfield, Lord: Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773) Categories: MANNERS

Chesterfield, Lord: Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773) Categories: HUMILITY, MODESTY

Chesterfield, Lord: Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773) Categories: APPEARANCE, BRASS

Chesterfield, Lord: The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773) Categories: GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL

Chesterfield, Lord: We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773) Categories: CHARACTER, IMITATION

Chesterfield, Lord: Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773) Categories: WORTHINESS

Chesterfield, Lord: Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773) Categories: CONTEMPT, FORGIVENESS

Chesterton, G. K.: A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936) Categories: PROTEST

Chesterton, G. K.: Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936) Categories: SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Chesterton, G. K.: Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936) Categories: ARTISTS

Chesterton, G.K.: Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (G.K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, who has been referred to as the ‘Prince of Paradox,’ 1874-1936) Categories: DECISIONS, INVESTIGATION

Chesterton, G. K.: Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936) Categories: FACTS, REALITY

Chesterton, G. K.: Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936) Categories: FAIRY TALES

Chesterton, G. K.: It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936) Categories: PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS

Chesterton, G. K.: One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936) Categories: PERCEPTION, TRAVEL

Chief Seattle: Humankind is but one thread of the web of life. All things are bound together. All things connect. (Chief Seattle: Suquamish and Duwamish Indian chief who was a leading figure among his people who pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, for which the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named, Died 1866) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, HUMANKIND, UNIVERSE

Chief Seattle: We don’t inherit the earth, we borrow it from our children. (Chief Seattle: Suquamish and Duwamish Indian chief who was a leading figure among his people who pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, for which the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named, Died 1866) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY, TRADITION

Child, Julia: Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. (Julia Child: U.S. chef, author and television personality who is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the U.S. public, 1912-2004) Categories: HEALTH, MODERATION

Child, Lydia M.: The government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. (Lydia M. Child: U.S. abolitionist, activist for the rights of women and Native Americans, novelist, and journalist, 1802-1880) Categories: GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.), POWER

Childress, Alice: "The good old days." The only good days are ahead. (Alice Childress: U.S. novelist, playwright, actress, stage producer, and off-Broadway union organizer, 1916-1994) Categories: FUTURE, PAST

Chinese Proverb: A book is like a garden carried in the pocket (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: BOOKS

Chinese Proverb: A fish can’t see water unless it jumps out of the water. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: PERCEPTION, PERSPECTIVES

Chinese Proverb: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: GOALS, INITIATIVE

Chinese Proverb: A man's fortune must first be changed from within. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: CHANGE, SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Chinese Proverb: Always take an emergency calmly. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: EMERGENCIES

Chinese Proverb: Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: PATIENCE

Chinese Proverb: Better be too credulous than too skeptical (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: GULLIBILITY, SKEPTICISM

Chinese Proverb: Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: ACTION, SOLUTIONS

Chinese Proverb: Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: MISFORTUNES, BLESSINGS

Chinese Proverb: Dig the well before you are thirsty. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: PLANNING, PREPARATION

Chinese Proverb: Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, PRUDENCE, RESTRAINT

Chinese Proverb: Don't curse the darkness - light a candle. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: DARKNESS, PROBLEM-SOLVING

Chinese Proverb: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: DECEPTION, LEARNING

Chinese Proverb: Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: LEARNING, PARENTHOOD

Chinese Proverb: He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: CAUTION, DECISIONS

Chinese Proverb: If a little money does not go out, great money will not come in. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: INVESTMENT

Chinese Proverb: If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: CHANGE, PLANNING

Chinese Proverb: It is easier to visit friends than to live with them. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: FRIENDS

Chinese Proverb: Never answer a letter while you are angry. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: ANGER

Chinese Proverb: No bud, no lotus. The lotus is a most beautiful flower, but it will only grow in the mud. You must first have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering — in order to grow and gain wisdom. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: CHALLENGES, OBSTACLES, SUFFERING

Chinese Proverb: Old men have much knowledge and experience just as old trees have many roots. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: AGING, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE

Chinese Proverb: People at birth are inherently good. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: HUMANKIND

Chinese Proverb: That was then, this is now. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: CHANGE, RELATIONSHIPS, TIME

Chinese Proverb: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: ACTION, TIMING

Chinese Proverb: The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: FAMILIES, ELDERS

Chinese Proverb: The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: INTRUSIVENESS

Chinese Proverb: The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Chinese Proverb: To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: CONSULTING, PLANNING

Chinese Proverb: When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train, and educate people. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: EDUCATION

Chinese Proverb: With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough. (Chinese Proverb: ) Categories: FRIENDS

Chisolm, Shirley: If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. (Shirley Chisolm: U.S. politician, educator, and author, who became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress and then served seven terms, 1924-2005) Categories: ASSERTIVENESS

Chittister, Joan: We cannot see injustice and say nothing, do nothing! Not if we are really to be authentically spiritual rather than simply pious actors in the game called ‘church.’ (Joan Chittister: U.S. Benedictine nun, theologian, author, speaker, and co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women.) Categories: INJUSTICE, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

Chodron, Pema: Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger. (Pema Chodron: U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936) Categories: COMMISERATION

Chodron, Pema: Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person. (Pema Chodron: U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936) Categories: COMMISERATION, EXPERIENCE

Chodron, Pema: Live your life as an experiment. (Pema Chodron: U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936) Categories: LIFE

Chodron, Pema: The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. (Pema Chodron: U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936) Categories: BELIEFS, STUBBORNNESS

Chomsky, Noam: Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. (Noam Chomsky: U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928) Categories: CHANGE, PROGRESS, STRUGGLES

Chomsky, Noam: Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. (Noam Chomsky: U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928) Categories: CURIOSITY, DISCOVERY

Chomsky, Noam: If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. (Noam Chomsky: U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928) Categories: FREE SPEECH, OPEN-MINDEDNESS

Chomsky, Noam: Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow. (Noam Chomsky: U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928) Categories: LANGUAGE

Chopra, Deepak: All great changes are preceded by chaos. (Deepak Chopra: Indian-American author, as an alternative medicine advocate, and a prominent figure in the New Age movement, Born 1946) Categories: CHANGE, CHAOS

Chopra, Deepak: Real bliss is to have peace of mind. (Deepak Chopra: Indian-American author, as an alternative medicine advocate, and a prominent figure in the New Age movement, Born 1946) Categories: BLISS

Christie, Agatha: The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. (Agatha Christie: English author known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, 1890-1976) Categories: TRUTH

Chuang-tzu: Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. (Chuang-tzu: Influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States period, a period of great development in Chinese philosophy) Categories: HAPPINESS

Churchill, Clementine: All one needs is core common sense but to be born with trousers instead of petticoats. (Clementine Churchill: British wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right, 1885-1977)) Categories: POLITICIANS

Churchill, Jill: There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. (Jill Churchill: U.S. award-winning author, 1943-2023) Categories: MOTHERHOOD

Churchill, Lady Randolph: Never scold a husband, otherwise he will only go where he is not scolded. (Lady Randolph Churchill: American-born British socialite and mother of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1854-1921)) Categories: MARRIAGE

Churchill, Winston: A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: LIES

Churchill, Winston: A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: OPTIMIST, PESSIMIST

Churchill, Winston: Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: CHARACTER

Churchill, Winston: Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: COURAGE

Churchill, Winston: Democracy is the worst form of government —except all the others. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT

Churchill, Winston: History is written by the victors. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: HISTORY

Churchill, Winston: I feel like an aeroplane at the end of a long flight, in the dusk . . . in search of a safe landing. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: HOPE, RETIREMENT

Churchill, Winston: If you are going through hell, keep going. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: CHALLENGES, HELL, PERSEVERANCE

Churchill, Winston: If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: LAW, REGULATIONS

Churchill, Winston: If you're going through hell, keep going. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Churchill, Winston: It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: PLANNING, DETAILS

Churchill, Winston: Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: CHALLENGES, OPPOSITION

Churchill, Winston: Never let a good crisis go to waste. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: CRISIS, OPPORTUNITIES

Churchill, Winston: Nothing in life is as exhilarating as to be shot at without results. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: DANGER, LUCK, SURVIVAL

Churchill, Winston: Russia is "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.'' (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: COMPLEXITY, MYSTERY, POLITICS, RUSSIA

Churchill, Winston: Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: ENTHUSIASM, PERSEVERANCE, SUCCESS

Churchill, Winston: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: COURAGE, FAILURE, PERSEVERANCE, SUCCESS

Churchill, Winston: The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: FUTURE, HISTORY, PERCEPTION

Churchill, Winston: The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: FUTURE, HISTORY, PAST

Churchill, Winston: The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: DEFEAT, VICTORY

Churchill, Winston: There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened, and maintained. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: FAMILY, HOME

Churchill, Winston: This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE

Churchill, Winston: We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, DESIGN

Churchill, Winston: You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—once they’ve exhausted every other possibility. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: U.S.A.

Churchill, Winston: You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965) Categories: GIVINGNESS, LIFE

Ciardi, John: Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said "We're not free spenders" doesn't know our like. (John Ciardi: U.S. poet, translator, and etymologist, 1916-1986) Categories: U.S.A., WAR

Ciardi, John: There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. (John Ciardi: U.S. poet, translator, and etymologist, 1916-1986) Categories: MODERATION, SOBRIETY

Cicero, Marcus: Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: MISTAKES, THINKING

Cicero, Marcus: As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: FRIENDSHIPS

Cicero, Marcus: Friends, though absent, are still present. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: FRIENDS

Cicero, Marcus: He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: ADVANTAGES, FRIENDSHIP

Cicero, Marcus: Honor is the reward of virtue. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: HONOR, VIRTUE

Cicero, Marcus: I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: PEACE, WAR

Cicero, Marcus: It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: CHANCE, CIRCUMSTANCES, FATE

Cicero, Marcus: Law stands mute in the midst of arms. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: LAW, WAR

Cicero, Marcus: Man is his own worst enemy. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: CHARACTER, SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Cicero, Marcus: Man's best support is a very dear friend. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Cicero, Marcus: Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: BLUNDERS, MEMORY, MISTAKES

Cicero, Marcus: Religion is not removed by removing superstition. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: BELIEFS, CULTURE, RELIGION, SUPERSTITION

Cicero, Marcus: Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world;" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: CIVILIZATION, WORLD CITIZEN

Cicero, Marcus: The eyes are the window of the soul. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: EMOTIONS, EYES, SENSES

Cicero, Marcus: The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: FRIENDS, RELIABILITY

Cicero, Marcus: Thou should eat to live; not live to eat. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: EATING

Cicero, Marcus: To live long, live slowly. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: LONGEVITY, WELL-BEING

Cicero, Marcus: What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.) Categories: COMMITMENT, CONVICTIONS

Cioran, Emil M.: Let us not be needlessly bitter; certain failures are sometimes fruitful. (Emil M. Cioran: Romanian philosopher and essayist who published works in both Romanian and French, 1911-1995) Categories: FAILURE, MISTAKES

Clance, Pauline R.: What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment. (Pauline R. Clance: Emerita of Psychology at Georgia State University) Categories: CHOICES, SELF-FULFILLMENT

Clapiers, Luc de: Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747) Categories: ENEMIES, FRIENDS, PROSPERITY

Clapiers, Luc de: The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747) Categories: ACCURACY, SPEED

Clapiers, Luc de: When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747) Categories: ILLNESS, DISPOSITION

Clare, John: If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. (John Clare: English poet (1793-1864)) Categories: LIFE, REBIRTH

Clark, Charles J.: Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. (Charles J. Clark: Canadian politician who served as prime minister of Canada, Born 1939) Categories: DEFEAT, SELF-CONFIDENCE

Clark, Frank A.: If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. (Frank A. Clark: U.S. lawyer and politician who served in public and private practice for some 50 years, including 20 years in the U.S. Congress, 1860-1936) Categories: OBSTACLES, PATHWAYS

Clark, Ramsey: Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. (Ramsey Clark: U.S. lawyer, activist, and federal government official, 1927-2021) Categories: CHANGE, TURBULENCE

Clark, Septima P.: Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. (Septima P. Clark: U.S. educator and civil rights activist, 1898-1987) Categories: CHANGE, CHAOS

Clark, William N.: Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. (William N. Clark: U.S. Baptist theologian and professor, 1840-1912) Categories: SPIRITUALITY, FAITH

Clarke, Adam: Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. (Adam Clarke: British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar, 1762-1832) Categories: PRAYER

Clarke, Arthur C.: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008) Categories: MAGIC, TECHNOLOGY

Clarke, Arthur C.: How inappropriate it is to call this planet 'Earth' when it is quite clearly ocean. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008) Categories: EARTH, OCEAN, PLANET

Clarke, Arthur C.: One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008) Categories: MORALITY, RELIGION

Clarke, Arthur C.: The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008) Categories: CHALLENGES, POSSIBILITIES, BOUNDARIES

Clarke, James F.: A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. (James F. Clarke: U.S. theologian and author, 1810-1888) Categories: POLITICIANS

Clausewitz, Carl von: War is merely the continuation of policy by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz: Prussian general and military theorist, 1780-1831) Categories: POLITICS, WAR

Clay, Henry: All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All religions, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay: U.S. attorney, statesman, and orator, 1777-1852) Categories: GOVERNMENT, RELIGION, SECULARISM

Clay, Henry: Statistics are no substitute for judgment. (Henry Clay: U.S. attorney, statesman, and orator, 1777-1852) Categories: JUDGMENT, STATISTICS

Clay, Lucius D.: The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities. (Lucius D. Clay: U.S. senior Army officer, known for his administration of occupied Germany after World War II, 1898-1978) Categories: DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM

Cleaver, Eldredge: You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem. (Eldredge Cleaver: U.S. writer, and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party, 1935-1998) Categories: PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS

Clement, Hal: Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. (Hal Clement: U.S. science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre, 1922-2003) Categories: INVENTIONS, SCIENCE, SPECULATION

Clinton, Hillary: None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up. (Hillary Clinton: U.S. politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state, as a U.S. senator representing New York, and as the first lady of the U.S. to president Bill Clinton, Born, 1947) Categories: COOPERATION, LIFE, SOCIETY

Cloran, E. M.: If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised." (E. M. Cloran: Romanian philosopher, aphorist, and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French, 1911-1995) Categories: PRAISE

Cobain, Kurt: It's better to burn out than fade out. (Kurt Cobain: U.S. singer, songwriter, artist and musician, 1967-) Categories: AGING, LIFE

Cobb, Ty: Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. (Ty Cobb: U.S. Major League Baseball outfielder who in 1936 received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame, 1886-1961) Categories: BASEBALL, FEAR

Cobbett, William: A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace. (William Cobbett: British radical pamphleteer, journalist, and member of Parliament, 1763-1835) Categories: FARMERS, POLITICS, LABOURERS

Cocks, Barnett: A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. (Barnett Cocks: British clerk in the House of Commons, 1907-1989) Categories: COMMITTEES

Cocteau, Jean: Art is science made clear. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963) Categories: ART

Cocteau, Jean: Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963) Categories: STYLE, SIMPLICITY

Cocteau, Jean: The joy of the young is to disobey, but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963) Categories: DISCIPLINE, DISOBEDIENCE, YOUTH

Cocteau, Jean: The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963) Categories: POETS

Coelho, Paulo: The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion. (Paulo Coelho: Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Born 1947) Categories: ACTION, OPINIONS, ROLE MODELS

Coffee, Lenore J.: When a man of 40 falls in love with a girl of 20, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. (Lenore J. Coffee: U.S. screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, 1896-1984) Categories: YOUTH

Coffin, William S.: Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them in the name of morality. (William S. Coffin: U.S. Christian clergyman, long-time peace activist, and CIA officer, 1924-2006) Categories: GOVERNMENT, MORALITY

Coffin, William S.: Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. (William S. Coffin: U.S. Christian clergyman, long-time peace activist, and CIA officer, 1924-2006) Categories: HOPE, POSSIBILITIES

Cohen, Leonard: There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen: Canadian musician, poet, and novelist, 1934-2016) Categories: FRACTURES, MISTAKES, OUTCOMES

Coke, Edward: Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. (Edward Coke: English barrister, judge, and politician, 1552-1634) Categories: CORPORATIONS

Cole, Johnnetta B.: An education that teaches us to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is for us to learn to do something about making the world a better place. (Johnnetta B. Cole: U.S. anthropologist and educator, Born 1936) Categories: EDUCATION, SOLUTIONS

Cole, Thomas: How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die. (Thomas Cole: English-born U.S. painter known for his landscape and history paintings, 1801-1848) Categories: EVENING

Coleman, John S.: The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. (John S. Coleman: U.S. television weatherman who founded the 'Weather Channel,' 1934-2018) Categories: TAXATION

Coleman, Ornette: Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. (Ornette Coleman: U.S. jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1930-2015) Categories: MUSIC, JAZZ

Coleridge, Harley: No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. (Harley Coleridge: English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher who was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1796-1849) Categories: POETS

Coleridge, Samuel T.: He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. (Samuel T. Coleridge: English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834) Categories:

Coleridge, Samuel T.: Language is the armory of the human mind; at once it contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. (Samuel T. Coleridge: English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834) Categories: LANGUAGE

Coleridge, Samuel T.: The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. (Samuel T. Coleridge: English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834) Categories: WISDOM, IDEAS

Coleridge, Samuel T.: To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. (Samuel T. Coleridge: English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834) Categories: EXPERIENCE

Coleridge, Samuel T.: What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. (Samuel T. Coleridge: English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834) Categories: SAYINGS

Colette, Sidonic: One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man’s step when he climbs the stairs. (Sidonic Colette: French author, woman of letters, journalist, and also known as a mime and actress, 1873-1954) Categories: LOVE

Collier, Robert: Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. (Robert Collier: U.S. author of self-help and metaphysical books in the 20th century, 1885-1950) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, SUCCESS

Collins, John C.: In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John C. Collins: British literary critic, 1848-1908) Categories: ADVERSITY, FRIENDS, PROSPERITY

Collins, Patricia H.: Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate. (Patricia H. Collins: U.S. academic specializing in race, class, and gender, Born 1948) Categories: DISCRIMINATION, POWER

Colton, Charles C.: Body and mind . . . do not always agree to die together. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832) Categories: DYING

Colton, Charles C.: Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832) Categories: BOREDOM, WEARINESS

Colton, Charles C.: Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832) Categories: FLATTERY, IMITATION

Colton, Charles C.: The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832) Categories: ADVERSITY, FRIENDSHIPS

Colton, Charles C.: We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, HATRED

Colton, Charles C.: Wealth is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832) Categories: WEALTH

Colton, Walter: Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery. (Walter Colton: U.S. naval chaplain, author, and co-publisher of California's first newspaper, 1797-1851) Categories: FLATTERY, IMITATION

Colton, Walter: Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. (Walter Colton: U.S. naval chaplain, author, and co-publisher of California's first newspaper, 1797-1851) Categories: TYRANNY

Columbus, Christopher: You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Christopher Columbus: Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, 1451-1506) Categories: COURAGE

Combarieu, Jules: Music is the art of thinking with sounds. (Jules Combarieu: French musicologist and music critic, 1859-1916) Categories: MUSIC

Comfort, Alex: Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire. (Alex Comfort: British scientist and physician known best for his non-fiction sex manual, "The Joy of Sex," 1920-2000) Categories: RETIREMENT

Commoner, Barry: The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. (Barry Commoner: U.S. cellular biologist, college professor, and politician, 1917-2012) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, NATURE

Compton-Burnett, Ivy: There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. (Ivy Compton-Burnett: English novelist, 1884-1969) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS, TOGETHERNESS

Comtesse, Diane: The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. (Diane Comtesse: French aristocrat, writer, courtier, and a lady-in-waiting to Princess Élisabeth of France, 1829-1899) Categories: HABITS, NOVELTY

Conant, James B.: Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (James B. Conant: U.S. chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, 1893-1978) Categories: ASSERTIVENESS, RISK

Condorcet, Marquis d.: Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another (Marquis d. Condorcet: French philosopher, political economist, politician, and mathematician, 1743-1794) Categories: ENVY

Confucius: A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: MISTAKES, CORRECTIONS

Confucius: Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: COMPROMISE

Confucius: By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: BEHAVIOR

Confucius: Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: CAREERS, JOBS

Confucius: Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: BEAUTY, PERCEPTION

Confucius: He who will not economize will have to agonize. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: THRIFT

Confucius: If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: PLANNING

Confucius: It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, PERSISTENCE

Confucius: Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: LIFE

Confucius: Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: CHOICES, DECISIONS

Confucius: Our greatest glory is not in our falling but in rising every time we fail. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: RESILIENCE

Confucius: Roads were made for journeys not destinations. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: CURIOSITY, TRAVEL, DESTINATIONS, ROADS

Confucius: The cautious seldom err. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: CAUTIOUSNESS

Confucius: The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: CHALLENGES, FRICTION

Confucius: The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Confucius: The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: ACTION, MODESTY

Confucius: They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: CHANGE, HAPPINESS, WISDOM

Confucius: To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: BLAME, FORGIVENESS, MEMORY

Confucius: To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.) Categories: COURAGE, COWARDICE

Congreve, William: Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Congreve, William: I know that's a secret, for It's whispered everywhere. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729) Categories: SECRECY

Congreve, William: Music has charms to soothe a savage beast / To soften rocks / or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729) Categories: MUSIC, PERCEPTION, HEARING

Congreve, William: Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729) Categories: POETRY

Congreve, William: Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729) Categories: EXPECTATIONS, UNCERTAINTY

Conley, Chris: Grow whole, not old! (Chris Conley: U.S. football player for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League, Born 1992) Categories: AGING

Connolly, Cyril: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974) Categories: WRITING

Connolly, Cyril: Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974) Categories: OBESITY

Connolly, Cyril: In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string? (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974) Categories: GENDER

Connolly, Cyril: Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974) Categories: JOURNALISM, WRITING

Connolly, Cyril: Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974) Categories: POETRY

Connolly, Cyril: Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974) Categories: MEMORY

Connolly, Cyril: The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974) Categories: COMMITMENT, DIET, HEALTH

Connolly, Cyril: Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974) Categories: POLITICS

Connor, Ralph: I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it. (Ralph Connor: Canadian novelist and church leader, 1860-1937) Categories: COWARDICE, SHAME

Connor, Ralph: Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. (Ralph Connor: Canadian novelist and church leader, 1860-1937) Categories: GIVING, HAPPINESS, LOVE

Connors, Jimmy: I hate to lose more than I love to win. (Jimmy Connors: U.S. former world No. 1 tennis player, Born 1952) Categories: LOSS-AVERSION

Conrad, Joseph: A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924) Categories: DEMONS, EVIL

Conrad, Joseph: A caricature putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924) Categories: CARICATURES

Conrad, Joseph: I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more— the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924) Categories: MATURATION, YOUTH

Conrad, Joseph: Sailing is . . . running all over the sea trying to get behind the weather. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924) Categories: SAILING

Conrad, Joseph: The sea—the truth must be confessed—has never been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924) Categories:

Conrad, Joseph: Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924) Categories: VANITY, MEMORY

Conrad, Joseph: You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924) Categories: FOES

Cook, Catherine: If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions (Catherine Cook: U.S. co-founder of 'My Yearbook' at age 15, Born 2001) Categories: DECISIONS, MISTAKES

Cook, Eliza: Better build schoolrooms for ‘the boy’ / Than cells and gallows for ‘the man.’ (Eliza Cook: English author and poet associated with political freedom for women, 1818-1889) Categories: EDUCATION

Cooley, Mason: An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult. (Mason Cooley: U.S. aphorist, Born 1927) Categories: ADOLESCENCE

Cooley, Mason: Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty (Mason Cooley: U.S. aphorist, Born 1927) Categories: BUSINESS, COMMERCE

Cooley, Mason: Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. (Mason Cooley: U.S. aphorist, Born 1927) Categories: FAITH, PERSEVERANCE

Cooley, Mason: Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. Reading gives us some place to go when wee have to stay where we are. (Mason Cooley: U.S. aphorist, Born 1927) Categories: READING

Coolidge, Calvin: I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. (Calvin Coolidge: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. governor and later as the 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933) Categories: SILENCE

Coolidge, Calvin: The business of America is business. (Calvin Coolidge: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. governor and later as the 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933) Categories: BUSINESS (U.S.A.)

Coolidge, Calvin: The man who builds a factory builds a temple; And the man who works there worships there. (Calvin Coolidge: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. governor and later as the 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933) Categories: BUSINESS

Coolidge, Calvin: We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. (Calvin Coolidge: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. governor and later as the 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933) Categories: ACTIVISM

Cooper, James F.: Principles become modified in practice by facts. (James F. Cooper: U.S. writer whose books focused on the history of the U.S. frontier and native-American life, 1789-1851) Categories: FACTS, PRINCIPLES

Copeland, Bill: The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. (Bill Copeland: U.S. poet, writer, and historian, 1946-2010) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Corneille, Pierre: The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. (Pierre Corneille: French tragedian who is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine, 1606-1684) Categories: GRUDGES

Corneille, Pierre: To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. (Pierre Corneille: French tragedian who is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine, 1606-1684) Categories: RISK, VICTORY

Cort, David: Sex is the great amateur art. (David Cort: U.S. writer (journalist, columnist, editor, and author, 1904-1983) Categories: SEX

Cosby, Bill: Gray hair is God's graffiti. (Bill Cosby: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, and author, Born 1937) Categories: AGING

Cosby, Bill: I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Bill Cosby: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, and author, Born 1937) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, SOCIOTROPY

Cosby, Norm: When you go into court, you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. (Norm Cosby: U.S. comedian, known as the 'Master of Malaprop,' 1927-2020) Categories: JURIES, COURTS

Cossman, E. Joseph: The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. (E. Joseph Cossman: U.S. inventor, businessman, entrepreneur, and author, 1918-2002) Categories: FORGETFULNESS

Cotgrave, Randle: Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. (Randle Cotgrave: English lexicographer, who compiled and published 'A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues', a bilingual dictionary that represented a breakthrough at the time, Died 1934) Categories: ALCOHOL, BREAD

Cotton, Tom: Our democracy stands on a knife’s edge. (Tom Cotton: U.S. attorney, military veteran, and politician, Born 1977) Categories: DEMOCRACY

Courtney, Margaret: Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young / Who loved thee so fondly as he / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue / And joined in thy innocent glee. (Margaret Courtney: British poet and folklorist, 1822-1862) Categories: FATHERHOOD

Cousins, Norman: Death is not the enemy, living in constant fear of it is. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990) Categories: DEATH, FEAR

Cousins, Norman: Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990) Categories: ACTION, DEFIANCE

Cousins, Norman: History is a vast early warning system. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990) Categories: EDUCATION, HISTORY

Cousins, Norman: Laughter is inner jogging. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990) Categories: LAUGHTER

Cousins, Norman: Life is an adventure in forgiveness. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990) Categories: FORGIVENESS

Cousins, Norman: The tragedy of life is not in the fact of death, but in what dies inside while you live. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990) Categories: DEATH, LIFE

Cousins, Norman: War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990) Categories: PEACE, WAR

Cousins, Parks: How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. (Parks Cousins: ) Categories: PERCEPTION, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Covey, Stephen: I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. (Stephen Covey: U.S. educator, author, and businessman, 1932-2012) Categories: DECISIONS

Covey, Stephen: Live out of your imagination, not your history. (Stephen Covey: U.S. educator, author, and businessman, 1932-2012) Categories: IMAGINATION

Coward, Noel: Work is much more fun than fun. (Noel Coward: English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, 1899-1973) Categories: FUN, WORK

Cowboy Saying: It’s better to be a has-been than a never-was. (Cowboy Saying: ) Categories: AGING, LIFE

Cowley, Abraham: Words that weep and tears that speak. (Abraham Cowley: Leading English poet of the 17th century, 1618-1667) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Cowper, William: Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. (William Cowper: English poet and forerunner of Romantic poetry, 1731-1800) Categories: RETIREMENT

Cowper, William: Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness/Where rumour of oppression and deceit/Of unsuccessful or successful war/Might never reach me more (William Cowper: English poet and forerunner of Romantic poetry, 1731-1800) Categories: DISTRACTIONS, ESCAPISM

Cowper, William: Remorse begets reform. (William Cowper: English poet and forerunner of Romantic poetry, 1731-1800) Categories: GUILT, REFORM, REGRET

Cox, Harvey: Not to decide is to decide. (Harvey Cox: U.S. theologian who served as the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, Born 1929) Categories: INDECISION

Cox, Marcelene: Have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else. (Marcelene Cox: U.S. writer, 1899-1998) Categories: EXPECTATIONS

Cox, Marcelene: Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. (Marcelene Cox: U.S. writer, 1899-1998) Categories: PARENTHOOD

Cox, Marcelene: Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it. (Marcelene Cox: U.S. writer, 1899-1998) Categories: COURAGE, PERSEVERANCE, PROGRESS

Cox, Oliver C.: Without capitalism, the world might never have experienced racial discrimination. (Oliver C. Cox: Trinidadian-U.S. sociologist who was often misconceived as a Marxist due to his focus on class conflict and capitalism; however, Cox fundamentally disagreed with Marx's analysis of Capitalism, 1901-1974) Categories: CAPITALISM, DISCRIMINATION, RACISM

Cox, Tony: Too often, news organizations perpetuate biases—simply by driving in a rainstorm with broken wipers. (Tony Cox: U.S. radio and television journalist, Born 1958) Categories: BIAS, MEDIA

Coyne, Jerry: In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. (Jerry Coyne: U.S. scientist and biology professor, known for his numerous publications on the theory of evolution, Born, 1949) Categories: FAITH, RELIGION, SCIENCE

Crabbe, George: Habit with him was all the test of truth, / It must be right: I've done it from my youth. (George Crabbe: English poet, surgeon, and clergyman, 1754-1832) Categories: HABITS

Craig, Edward: Thesis, antithesis, synthesis—most of us only take the first or second steps. (Edward Craig: English academic philosopher and first-class cricketer, Born 1942) Categories: SYNTHESIS

Craik, Dinah M.: There never was night that had no morn. (Dinah M. Craik: English poet and novelist, 1826-1887) Categories: HOPE

Crane, Frank: Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them. (Frank Crane: U.S. clergyman and popular writer, 1861-1928) Categories: FEAR, GOALS, HARDSHIPS

Crews, Harry: There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed. (Harry Crews: U.S. novelist and playwright, 1935-2012) Categories: SCARS, WOUNDS

Crick, Francis: How do I know what I think until I can hear what I say? (Francis Crick: English molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize recipient who played a crucial role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule, 19916-2004) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS

Cronin, Archibald J.: Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. (Archibald J. Cronin: Scottish physician and novelist whose books helped to inspire the National Health Service, 1896-1981) Categories: WORRY

Crossman, R. H. S.: The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. (R. H. S. Crossman: British Labor Party politician, 1907-1974) Categories: GOVERNMENT, POWER

Crowe, Cameron: Show me the money! (Cameron Crowe: U.S. director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author, and actor, Born 1957) Categories: MONEY

Cuelho, Paulo: Friendship isn’t a big thing; it’s a million little things. (Paulo Cuelho: Brazilian lyricist, novelist, and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Born 1947) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Cumberland, Richard: It is better to wear out than to rust out. (Richard Cumberland: English philosopher, and Bishop, 1631-1718) Categories: AGING, VITALITY

Cummings, E. E.: The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. (E. E. Cummings: U.S. poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright, 1894-1962) Categories: CIVILIZATION, LIFE

Cummings, William T.: There are no atheists in the foxholes. (William T. Cummings: U.S. military Chaplain who served in the Philippines during WW II, 1903-1945) Categories: RELIGION, WAR

Cuomo, Mario: You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. (Mario Cuomo: U.S. lawyer and politician who served as the 52nd Governor of New York for three terms, Born 1932) Categories: POLITICS (U.S.A.)

Cuppy, Will: If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. (Will Cuppy: U.S. humorist and literary critic. 1884-1949) Categories: INSTINCT, INTELLIGENCE

Curie, Marie: Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie: Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist, 1867-1934) Categories: FEAR

Curran, John P.: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. (John P. Curran: Irish orator, politician, lawyer, and judge, 1750-1817) Categories: LAW, REGULATIONS

Currie, Ding-Jo: Spirituality is love in action. (Ding-Jo Currie: U.S. nationally and internationally recognized leader in higher education) Categories: SPIRITUALITY

Curtis, Charles: There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. (Charles Curtis: U.S. attorney and politician who served as the 31st U.S. vice-president, 1860-1936) Categories: APATHY, INDIFFERENCE, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Curtis, Edward L.: Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful. (Edward L. Curtis: U.S. Idaho Secretary of State, 1883–1884,) Categories: ACTION, OPTIMISM, EFFORT

Cushman, Charlotte: Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. (Charlotte Cushman: U.S. stage actress, 1816-1876) Categories: DEBTS, HUMILITY

Czechoslovakian Proverb: When you go to buy use your eyes, not your ears. (Czechoslovakian Proverb: ) Categories: CAUTION