CALAMITY : Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

CALLING : Every calling is great when greatly pursued. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

CALM : You get what you get, and you don’t throw a fit. (Julie Gassman: U.S. magazine editor and author of children's books)

CALMNESS : The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. (John Berry: U.S. country music artist, Born 1959)

CALMNESS : Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. (Bryant McGill: U.S. best-selling author and speaker who champions gender equality, and the rights of women and girls. and girls, Born 1969)

CALUMNY : To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny (slander). (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

CAMELS : A camel is a horse designed by a committee. (Unknown Source: )

CAMPING : How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? (Unknown Source: )

CANADA : Canada is a live country - live, but not like the States, kicking. (Rupert Brooke: English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, 1887-1915)

CANADA : The U.S. assumes Canada to be bestowed as a right and accepts this bounty, as it does air, without thought or appreciation. (Dean Acheson: U.S. statesman and Secretary of State who helped design the Marshall Plan and was a key player in the development of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1893-1971)

CANADA : There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for a Canadian cause. (William A. Deacon: Canadian nationalist, 1890-1977)

CANADIANS : The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not. (Robert Thompson: Canadian water polo player and coach who competed in the 1972 Olympics on Munich, Born 1947)

CANDOR : If you can’t offend, you can’t be honest. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

CANDOR : It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983)

CAPITAL : Capital is past savings accumulated for future production. (Jackson Martindell: U.S. financier, management consultant, and onetime publisher of 'Who's Who in America', 1901-1990)

CAPITAL : Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. (Unknown Source: )

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT : Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

CAPITALISM : All the peasant revolutions of the 20th century have been against the predatory and disruptive effects of capitalism. (Mao Zedong: Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist, and founder of the People's Republic of China, 1893-1976)

CAPITALISM : Capitalism de-sacralizes nature and makes it a commodity for exploitation and profit. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CAPITALISM : Capitalism desacralizes nature and makes it a commodity for exploitation and profit. (Unknown Source: )

CAPITALISM : Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. (Unknown Source: )

CAPITALISM : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

CAPITALISM : The evils of free-market capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

CAPITALISM : The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. (Jawaharal Nehru: India's first Prime Minister as a secular democratic republic, one who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964)

CAPITALISM : 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)

CAPITULATION : Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

CAREERS : A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. (Marilyn Monroe: U.S. actress, model, and singer, 1926-1962)

CAREERS : A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life. (Barbara Walters: U.S. broadcast journalist, author, and television personality, Born 1929)

CAREERS : By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

CAREERS : Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running. (Gary Sinise: U.S. actor, director, producer, musician, and humanitarian who has worked in film, television, and theater for over 40 years and has won a Golden Globe, a Tony, among other awards, Born 1955)

CAREERS : 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.)

CAREERS : Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life. (John Wooden: U.S. basketball coach who at UCLA held an unprecedented record of NCAA national championships, 1910-2010)

CAREERS : I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug. (Bob Hope: U.S. comedian, actor, entertainer, and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, and television, 1903-2003)

CAREERS : One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

CAREERS : They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

CAREERS : Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

CAREERS : What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road? (Unknown Source: )

CAREERS : You change for two reasons: either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to. (Kate Megahan: U.S. district manager of Faber, Coe, & Gregg for careers in retail)

CAREERS : Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. (Angelo Sotira: U.S. entrepreneur who co-founded the online community DeviantArt, Born 1981)

CAREFULNESS : If you are too careful, you are so preoccupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. (Gertrude Stein: U.S.-French novelist, poet, and playwright, 1874-1946)

CAREGIVING : In some native languages, the term for ‘plants’ translates to ‘those who take care of us.’ (Robin W. Kimmerer: U.S. Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Born 1953)

CAREGIVING : Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. (Jules B. d'Aurevilly: French novelist and short story writer, 1808-1889)

CARELESSNESS : The wife of a careless man is almost a widow. (Hungarian Proverb: )

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

CASTE : Caste makes distinction among creatures where God has made none. (Charles Sumner: U.S. statesman and Senator who, as an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, was a leader of the anti-slavery forces, 1811-1874)

CASTE : It is said you can try to leave your caste, but caste never leaves you. (Unknown Source: )

CATACLYSM : Cataclysm is always followed by emergence. This is a universal evolutionary pattern. (Unknown Source: )

CATS : Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures. (Lewis Thomas: U.S. physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher, 1913-1993)

CATS : Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. (Eloisa James: U.S. professor of English literature [pen name of Mary Bly], Born 1962)

CATS : Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you. (Mary Bly: U.S. author and tenured professor at Fordham University whose novels are published in 30 countries, Born 1962)

CATS : Dogs have masters; cats have staff. (Unknown Source: )

CATS : Keep in mind . . . to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff. (Unknown Source: )

CAUSES : Nothing is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself. (John McCain III: U.S. politician and naval officer who served 5 terms in the U.S. Senate, 1936-2018)

CAUSES : We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. (Desmond Tutu: South African Anglican Archbishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist and the first black African to hold the position, Born 1931)

CAUTION : Action makes more fortunes than caution.- (Vauvenargues: French writer of essays and aphorisms, 1715-1747)

CAUTION : Among mortals, second thoughts are wisest. (Unknown Source: )

CAUTION : 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)

CAUTION : Call on God, but row away from the rocks. (Unknown Source: )

CAUTION : Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

CAUTION : Discretion is the better part of valor. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

CAUTION : Don’t go down to the cellar until the windstorm hits. (Unknown Source: )

CAUTION : Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it. (Unknown Source: )

CAUTION : 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.)

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

CAUTION : If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp. (Latin Proverb: )

CAUTION : If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

CAUTION : If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup. (Unknown Source: )

CAUTION : It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. (Unknown Source: )

CAUTION : Little boats should keep near shore. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

CAUTION : Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner. (Sigourney Weaver: U.S. actress known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy films, Born 1949)

CAUTION : Once bitten, twice shy. (English proverb: )

CAUTION : Praise the sea; on shore remain. (John Florio: British linguist, lexicographer, and a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, 1553-1625)

CAUTION : The perfect helmsman is the one who risks with caution. (Naval Ravikant: Indian-American entrepreneur, investor, and recipient of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, Born 1974)

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

CAUTION : Wisely and slow / They stumble that run fast. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

CAUTION : Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

CAUTIOUSNESS : A closed mouth catches no flies. (Italian Proverb: )

CAUTIOUSNESS : Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. (Malayan Proverb: )

CAUTIOUSNESS : Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot. (Malayan Proverb: )

CAUTIOUSNESS : Love the sea? I dote upon it—from the beach. (Douglas W. Jerrold: English dramatist and writer, 1803-1857)

CAUTIOUSNESS : Monotony is the awful reward of the careful. (Alfred G. Buckham: British photographer who specialized in aerial photography, 1879-1956)

CAUTIOUSNESS : The cat in gloves catches no mice. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

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

CELEBRITIES : A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. (Fred Allen: U.S. comedian on one of the most popular radio programs, 1894-1956)

CELIBACY : Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

CENSORSHIP : Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there. (Clare B. Luce: U.S. author, politician, and first U.S. woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad, 1903-1987)

CENSORSHIP : Every burned book enlightens the world. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

CENSORSHIP : I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... censorship. (Robert A. Heinlein: U.S. science-Fiction writer, often called the 'dean of science-fiction writers,' 1907-1988)

CENSORSHIP : If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

CENSORSHIP : If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome, we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. (Unknown Source: )

CENSORSHIP : No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

CENSORSHIP : The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. (Walt Whitman: U.S. essayist, journalist, and poet, known as the 'Father of Free Verse,' 1819-1992)

CENSORSHIP : There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

CENSORSHIP : To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. (Claude A. Helvetius: French philosopher, freemason, and writer, 1715-1771)

CENSORSHIP : What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

CENSORSHIP : You censure with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary. (St. Jerome: Dalmatian Roman Catholic priest best known for his translation of most of the "Bible" into Latin 347-420)

CERTAINTY : Certitude is not the test of certainty. But certainty is generally illusion. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

CERTAINTY : Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

CERTAINTY : Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. (Unknown Source: )

CERTAINTY : Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

CERTAINTY : I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth -- and truth rewarded me. (Simone d. Beauvoir: French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist,1908-1986)

CERTAINTY : If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

CERTAINTY : If anything is certain, it’s uncertainty. (Carlos A. Sanchez: U.S. Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University)

CERTAINTY : Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937)

CERTAINTY : It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

CERTAINTY : It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)

CERTAINTY : Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

CERTAINTY : Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)

CERTAINTY : Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

CERTAINTY : The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness. (Mark Rutherford: British composer and producer, 1831-1913)

CERTAINTY : The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best—and therefore never scrutinize or question. (Stephen J. Gould: U.S. paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science, 1941-2002)

CERTAINTY : The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

CERTAINTY : The only certainty is that nothing is certain. (Pliny the Elder: Roman author, naturalist, scientist, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, Died 79 A.D.)

CERTAINTY : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

CERTAINTY : There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

CERTAINTY : There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, 18874-1965)

CERTAINTY : To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. (Unknown Source: )

CERTAINTY : To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. (Stanislaw Leszczy: King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Lorraine, and Count of the Holy Roman Empire, 1677-1776)

CERTAINTY : To end with certainty, we must begin with doubting. (St. Stanislaus: Polish, catholic bishop, 1030-1079)

CERTAINTY : Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal. (I Ching, Book of Changes: )

CERTAINTY : We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. (Tzvetan Todorov: Bulgarian-French historian, geologist, and philosopher, 1939-2017)

CERTITUDE : Certitude is not the test of certainty. But certainty is generally illusion. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

CERTITUDE : The future outwits all our certitudes. (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: U.S. historian, social critic, public intellectual, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1917-2007)

CHALLENGE : Do one thing every day that scares you. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

CHALLENGE : If there were no clouds, we would not enjoy the sun. (Unknown Source: )

CHALLENGE : 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)

CHALLENGE : When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

Challenges : A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

Challenges : A child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. (Ellen Key: Swedish feminist writer and an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, 1849-192)

Challenges : All rising to great places is by a winding stair. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

Challenges : All things are difficult before they are easy. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

Challenges : Although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won. (Lucy M. Montgomery: Canadian author best known for a series of novels, "Anne of Green Gables," 1874-1942)

Challenges : Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

Challenges : Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. (Joshua Marine: U.S. author, magician, and lecturer)

Challenges : Difficulties exist to be surmounted. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Challenges : Don't deny your challenges. Embrace them! (David S. Tatel: U.S. lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Born 1942)

Challenges : Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. (Brigham Young: U.S. religious leader of the Mormon Church and politician, who founded of Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, 1801-1877)

Challenges : Failure often occurs when a pioneer is facing new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

Challenges : He that would have fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

Challenges : He who has a choice has trouble. (Dutch Proverb: )

Challenges : He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. (Persian Proverb: )

Challenges : I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa M. Alcott: U.S. novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women," 1832-1888)

Challenges : 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)

Challenges : If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. (Abigail Van Buren: U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the 'Dear Abby' column in 1956, which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

Challenges : If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. (Dolly Parton: U.S. singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music, Born 1946)

Challenges : If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. (Dolly Parton: U.S. singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music, Born 1946)

Challenges : If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941)

Challenges : In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Challenges : In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world. (Franz Kafka: German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)

Challenges : It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. (Lena Horne: U.S. singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist, 1917-2010)

Challenges : It’s easy to make things hard, but hard to make things easy. (Jos D. BLOK: Dutch founder and CEO of Buurtzorg, a home-based health care community organization, Born 1960)

Challenges : Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. (Ruth Graham: U.S. Christian author, most well known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, 1943-2007)

Challenges : Justice will never come if we only do the things that are comfortable. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959)

Challenges : 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)

Challenges : Learn to live with what’s due. (Unknown Source: )

Challenges : Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. (Bernice J. Reagon: U.S. singer, composer, scholar, and social activist who realized the power of collective singing to unify disparate groups, Born 1942)

Challenges : 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: )

Challenges : No pleasure without pain (Walter Raleigh: English statesman, soldier, writer, and explorer who played a leading part in the English colonization of North America,1552-1618)

Challenges : One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

Challenges : Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines. (Robert H. Schuller: Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author, principally known for his weekly ‘Hour of Power’ television program, 1926-2015)

Challenges : Roots grow strongest when storms teach them to hold. (Unknown Source: )

Challenges : Strong women aren’t simply born; they are made by the storms they walk through. (Unknown Source: )

Challenges : Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase. (Dottie Walters: U.S. leading motivational keynote speaker, lecturer, and author, 1925-2007)

Challenges : That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

Challenges : The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. (John Galsworthy: English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1867-1933)

Challenges : The best way out is always through. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

Challenges : The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. (Antoine Gramsci: Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer, and politician, 1891-1936)

Challenges : The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. (U.S. Army Slogan: )

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

Challenges : The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. (Epicurus: Greek philosopher, sage, and prolific writer who founded a highly influential school of philosophy now called 'Epicureanism,' 341—270 B.C.E.)

Challenges : The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

Challenges : The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. (Woodrow Wilson: U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)

Challenges : The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. (English proverb: )

Challenges : The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. (Anthony J. Robbins: U.S. entrepreneur and author of self-help books, Born 1960)

Challenges : 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)

Challenges : The road to success is always under construction. (Lily Tomlin: U.S. actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer, Born 1939)

Challenges : The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. (John Wooden: U.S. basketball coach who at UCLA held an unprecedented record of NCAA national championships, 1910-2010)

Challenges : There is no coming to consciousness without pain. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

Challenges : There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Challenges : To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937)

Challenges : Turn your wounds into wisdom. (Oprah Winfrey: U.S. talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist, born 1954.)

Challenges : We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or . . . build with them. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

Challenges : We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

Challenges : We must gird up our loins . . . (Matthew Henry: British Nonconformist minister and author, best known for the six-volume biblical commentary Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, 1662-1714)

Challenges : Well begun is half done. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

Challenges : What does not destroy me, makes me strong. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

Challenges : When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

Challenges : Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)

Challenges : Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. (Indira Gandhi: Indian politician who was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India and was named by 'Time' magazine among the world's 100 powerful women who defined the last century, 1917-1984))

Challenges : Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. (Nicoolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527)

Challenges : Where your fear is, there is your task. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

Challenges : With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

Challenges : Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. (Bryant McGill: U.S. best-selling author and speaker who champions gender equality, and the rights of women and girls. and girls, Born 1969)

CHAMPIONS : A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t. (Jack Dempsey: U.S. professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion, 1895-1983)

CHAMPIONS : I really think a champion is defined not by their wins, but by how they can recover when they fall. (Serena Williams: U.S. professional award-winning tennis player, Born 1981)

CHANCE : Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

CHANCE : Chance favors only those who know how to court her. (Charles Nicolle: French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus, 1866-1936)

CHANCE : Chance favors the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)

CHANCE : Chance favors those in motion. (James H. Austin: U.S. neurologist and author of books on the human brain and the practice of meditation, 1928-2017)

CHANCE : Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. (Unknown Source: )

CHANCE : 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.)

CHANCE : Life guarantees a chance—not a fair shake. (Unknown Source: )

CHANCE : Luck is not chance—It’s Toil. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

CHANCE : To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

CHANCES : You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. (Wayne Gretzky: Canadian former professional ice hockey player and head coach, Born 1961)

CHANGE : A man's fortune must first be changed from within. (Chinese Proverb: )

CHANGE : All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. (Ellen Glasgow: U.S. novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, 1873-1945)

CHANGE : 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)

CHANGE : All is change; all yields its place and goes. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

CHANGE : All that you touch, you change / All that you change, changes you / The only lasting truth is change. (Octavia E. Butler: U.S. science fiction author who became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Born 1947)

CHANGE : Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. (Harriet Lerner: U.S. clinical psychologist and contributor to feminist theory and therapy, Born 1944)

CHANGE : Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. (Arnold Bennett: English author-novelist, 1867-1931)

CHANGE : As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us. (Hyemeyohsts (Charles) Storm: German-American immigrant, Born 1935)

CHANGE : At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. (Frances H. Burnett: British-American novelist and playwright, 1849-1924)

CHANGE : Be the change you wish to see in the world. (Unknown Source: )

CHANGE : Better to suffer in a novel situation than to be comfortable in the same old rut. (Unknown Source: )

CHANGE : Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have —and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. (James Belasco: U.S. business leadership strategist and best-selling author, Born 1936)

CHANGE : Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. (John C. Maxwell: U.S. author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership, Born 1947)

CHANGE : Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. (Robert MacNeil: Canadian-American novelist, retired television news anchor, and journalist, Born 1931)

CHANGE : Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better (Richard Hooker: U.S. writer and surgeon , 1924-1997)

CHANGE : Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

CHANGE : Change itself is the very basis of our continuity as persons. Only that which can change can continue. (Unknown Source: )

CHANGE : Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)

CHANGE : 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)

CHANGE : Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

CHANGE : Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

CHANGE : Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

CHANGE : Everything has changed, except our way of thinking. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CHANGE : God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. (Reinhold Niebuhr: U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)

CHANGE : Good character is not formed in a week or a month . . . . Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. (Heraclitus: Pre-Socratic Ionian Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, in modern day Turkey and then part of the Persian Empire, 535—475 B.C.E.)

CHANGE : He who rejects change is the architect of decay. (Harold Wilson: British statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, 1916-1995)

CHANGE : I can generally bear separation, but I don't like the leave-taking. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

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

CHANGE : If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937)

CHANGE : If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer: German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, 1906-1945)

CHANGE : If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

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

CHANGE : In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970)

CHANGE : Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. (Stephen Hawking: English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1942)

CHANGE : Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? (Stanislaw Lee: Polish poet and aphorist, 1909-1966)

CHANGE : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

CHANGE : It's a bad plan that can't be changed. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

CHANGE : It's an ill plan that cannot be changed. (Latin Proverb: )

CHANGE : Just when I changed all of life's answers, they changed all the questions. (Paul Simon: U.S. politician who served both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, 1928-2003)

CHANGE : Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. (Unknown Source: )

CHANGE : Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. (Unknown Source: )

CHANGE : Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit. (David McCord: U.S. poet and college fundraiser, 1897-1997)

CHANGE : Nature's mighty law is change. (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796)

CHANGE : 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)

CHANGE : Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

CHANGE : Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

CHANGE : Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. (Fred Rogers: U.S. television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, and minister, 1928-1993)

CHANGE : Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door. (Simeon Strunsky: Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist, 1879-1948)

CHANGE : Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. (Walter Lippmann: U.S. reporter, political commentator, writer who coined the word 'Stereotype,' and received two Pulitzer Prizes, 1889-1974))

CHANGE : Personal change is inseparable from social and political change. (Harriet Lerner: U.S. clinical psychologist and contributor to feminist theory and therapy, Born 1944)

CHANGE : Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

CHANGE : Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

CHANGE : Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. (Ruth B. Ginsburg: U.S. lawyer, jurist, and the second female Associate Justice to be confirmed to the U.S Supreme Court, Born 1933)

CHANGE : Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. (Caroline Schoeder: U.S. writer of aphorisms, Born 1971)

CHANGE : Sorrow has its rewards. It never leaves us where it found us. (Mary B. Eddy: U.S. writer and leader who established the Church of Christ Scientist, founded 'The Christian Science Monitor,' a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, and was an inductee to the Women's National Hall of Fame, 1821-1910)

CHANGE : Still round the corner there may wait / a new road or a secret gate. (J. R. R. Tolkien: English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, 1892-1973)

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

CHANGE : The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. (Kakuzo Okakura: Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and belief, 1863-1913)

CHANGE : The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

CHANGE : The beauty of autumn is a reminder that change can be beautiful. (Unknown Source: )

CHANGE : The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance of the need to change. (Unknown Source: )

CHANGE : 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)

CHANGE : The man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

CHANGE : The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. (James Frazer: Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion, 1854-1941)

CHANGE : The more things change, the more they stay the same. (John-Baptiste A. Karr: French critic, journalist, and novelist, 1808-1890)

CHANGE : The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

CHANGE : The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn . . . and change. (Carl Rogers: U.S. psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach in psychology, 1902-1987)

CHANGE : The only person who likes change is a wet baby. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

CHANGE : The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. (Alan Watts: British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)

CHANGE : The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

CHANGE : The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. (Ann Patchett: U.S. Prize-winning author, Born, 1963)

CHANGE : The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CHANGE : The ultimate paradox: Change is the only constant. (Michael Altschuler: U.S. business man and motivational speaker)

CHANGE : The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude. (Gerald G. Jampolsky: U.S. and international authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. Born 1925)

CHANGE : There is nothing permanent except change. (Heraclitus: Pre-Socratic Ionian Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, in modern day Turkey and then part of the Persian Empire, 535—475 B.C.E.)

CHANGE : There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)

CHANGE : There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. (Carson McCullers: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet, 1917-1967)

CHANGE : They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol: U.S. leading figure in the 1960s Pop Art movement and is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, 1928-1987)

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

CHANGE : Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. (Ferdinand de Saussure: Swiss linguist and semiotician, 1857-1913)

CHANGE : To change and to improve are two different things. (German Proverb: )

CHANGE : To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. (Henri Bergson: French-Jewish philosopher who was known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality, 1859-1941)

CHANGE : To live is to change, and to be growing is to have changed often. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)

CHANGE : 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)

CHANGE : Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. (Flemish Proverb: )

CHANGE : 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)

CHANGE : We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965)

CHANGE : We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. (Lyman L. Bryson: U.S. educator, media advisor, and author, 1888-1959)

CHANGE : We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it. (Lauryn Hill: U.S. singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress , Born 1975)

CHANGE : We cannot change anything unless we accept it. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

CHANGE : We don't need more revolutionaries, we need more SOLUTIONARIES. (Shaylyn R. Garrett: U.S. writer, speaker, and change maker)

CHANGE : We're here to put a dent in the universe. (Steve Jobs: U.S. business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor, 1955-2011)

CHANGE : When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. (Tuli Kupferberg: U.S. counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, publisher, and co-founder of a rock band, 1923-2010)

CHANGE : When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

CHANGE : 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)

CHANGE : You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. (Heraclitus: Pre-Socratic Ionian Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, in modern day Turkey and then part of the Persian Empire, 535—475 B.C.E.)

CHANGE : You change for two reasons: either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to. (Kate Megahan: U.S. district manager of Faber, Coe, & Gregg for careers in retail)

CHANGE : You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CHANGE : You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

CHANGE : You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)

CHANGE AGENTS : Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. . . . We are the change that we seek. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

CHANGE AGENTS : People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. (Rob Siltanen: U.S. leading creative marketer responsible for some of the most effective and iconic advertising campaigns)

CHAOS : 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)

CHAOS : Chaos often brings life while order brings habit. (Unknown Source: )

CHAOS : 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)

CHARACTER : Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; your words become your actions; your actions become your habits; your habits become your character; your character becomes your destiny. (Unknown Source: )

CHARACTER : Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation us merely what others think you are. (John Wooden: U.S. basketball coach who at UCLA held an unprecedented record of NCAA national championships, 1910-2010)

CHARACTER : Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991)

CHARACTER : By his deeds we know a man. (African Proverb: )

CHARACTER : Character develops in the full current of human life. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

CHARACTER : Character is Destiny. (Unknown Source: )

CHARACTER : Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Unknown Source: )

CHARACTER : Character is what you are in the dark. (Dwight Moody: U.S. evangelist and publisher, 1837-1899)

CHARACTER : 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)

CHARACTER : Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

CHARACTER : Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. (Alphonse Karr: French literary figure, known as a critic, journalist, and novelist, 1808-1890)

CHARACTER : Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has. (John-Baptiste A. Karr: French critic, journalist, and novelist, 1808-1890)

CHARACTER : Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

CHARACTER : Good character is not formed in a week or a month . . . . Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. (Heraclitus: Pre-Socratic Ionian Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, in modern day Turkey and then part of the Persian Empire, 535—475 B.C.E.)

CHARACTER : Happiness is not the end of life; character is. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

CHARACTER : Hire character. Train skill. (Peter Schultz: U.S. chemist, professor, and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedical Research, Born 1956)

CHARACTER : Hire character. Train skill. (Peter Schultz: U.S. chemist, professor, and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedical Research, Born 1956)

CHARACTER : If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. (Woodrow Wilson: U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)

CHARACTER : If you want to test a man’s character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

CHARACTER : In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

CHARACTER : In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

CHARACTER : It is by character and not by intellect the world is won. (Evelyn B. Hall: English writer best known for her biography of the author, Voltaire, 1868-1956)

CHARACTER : It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

CHARACTER : 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.)

CHARACTER : Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. (Unknown Source: )

CHARACTER : Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

CHARACTER : Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

CHARACTER : Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. (Clementine Paddleford: U.S. food writer, writing for several publications about regional cuisines in the U.S. 1898-1967)

CHARACTER : No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

CHARACTER : Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. (Ralph W. Sockman: U.S. pastor and radio broadcaster, 1889-1970)

CHARACTER : One can acquire everything in solitude but character. (Marie-Henri Beyle: French writer, regarded as one of the foremost practitioners of realism, 1783-1842)

CHARACTER : Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. (Solon: Greek statesman, lawmaker, and poet who is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy, 6th century)

CHARACTER : Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

CHARACTER : The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. (William J. Boetcker: German-American religious leader and influential public speaker, 1873-1962)

CHARACTER : The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. (Thomas B. Macaulay: British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859)

CHARACTER : The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

CHARACTER : The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

CHARACTER : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

CHARACTER : The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

CHARACTER : The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character. (Emma D. Kelley: U.S. writer, 1863-1938)

CHARACTER : There is no such thing as a “self-made” man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone . . . has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts. (George M. Adams: U.S. newspaper columnist and founder of the 'George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service,' 1878-1962)

CHARACTER : To move freely you must be deeply rooted. (Bella Lewitzky: U.S. dancer, choreographer, 1916-2004)

CHARACTER : We all have both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

CHARACTER : 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)

CHARACTER : Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. (Titus M. Plautus: Roman playwright, 254 B.C.-184 .C.)

CHARACTER : Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

CHARACTER : When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost! (Unknown Source: )

CHARACTER : You are remembered for the rules you break. (Douglas MacArthur: U.S. Five-star General who played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II, 1880-1964)

CHARACTER : You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

CHARACTER : You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

CHARACTER : You don't know someone until you divorce them. (Amy Robach: U.S. award-winning journalist and former news anchor, Born 1973)

CHARACTER-BUILDING : Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

CHARACTER-BUILDING : Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. (Faith Baldwin: U.S. writer of romance novels and other forms of fiction, 1893-1978)

CHARACTER-BUILDING : Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

CHARACTER-BUILDING : One can acquire everything in solitude except character. (Stendhal: French novelist, 1783-1842)

CHARITY : A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader: U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934)

CHARITY : Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. (Percy B. Shelley: English Romantic poet, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, 1792-1822)

CHARITY : As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

CHARITY : Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

CHARITY : Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)

CHARITY : It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. (Mary Wollstonecraft: English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, 1759-1797)

CHARITY : It's best to give while your hand is still warm. (Philip Roth: U.S. novelist and short story writer, 1933-2018)

CHARITY : 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)

CHARITY : Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. (St. Jerome: Dalmatian Roman Catholic priest best known for his translation of most of the "Bible" into Latin 347-420)

CHARITY : That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity (Unknown Source: )

CHARITY : 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)

CHARM : 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)

CHARM : Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful. (Kathleen Winsor: U.S. author who is best known for her first historical book, "Forever Amber," a racy novel, that became a runaway bestseller, 1919-2003)

CHASTITY : Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. (Remy de Gourmont: French Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic, 1858-1915)

CHEATING : I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.)

CHEERFULNESS : Keep your face to the sunshine and you won't see the shadows. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

CHEERS : Cheer up, the worst is yet to come! (Philander Johnson: U.S. journalist, humorist, poet, lyricist, and dramatic editor, 1866-1939)

CHEMICALS : 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)

CHILD-ABUSE : What's done to children, they will do to society. (Karl A. Menninger: U.S. psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation, 1893-1990)

CHILD-DEVELOPMENT, TEACHING, ROLE-MODELS : Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

CHILD-RAISING : It takes an entire village to raise a child. (African Proverb: )

CHILDBIRTH : Birthing is hard and dying is mean / So get yourself a little loving in between. (Langston Hughes: U.S. poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist, 1902-1967)

CHILDCARE : What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. (P. D. James: British author whose series of detective novels feature a police commander and Britain’s Scotland Yard, 1920-2014)

CHILDHOOD : A child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. (Ellen Key: Swedish feminist writer and an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, 1849-192)

CHILDHOOD : As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. (Buddy Hackett: U.S. comedian and comic actor, 1924-2003)

CHILDHOOD : Children have more need of models than of critics. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

CHILDHOOD : Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. (Harold S. Hulbert: U.S. actor, 1909-1959)

CHILDHOOD : One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. (Randall Jarrell: U.S. poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist, 1914-1965)

CHILDHOOD : The child is father of the man. (William Wordsworth: English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

CHILDHOOD : The childhood shows the man / As morning shows the day. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

CHILDHOOD : The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience. (Jeffrey M. Masoon: U.S author, Born, 1941)

CHILDHOOD : The habits we form from childhood make no small difference. They make all the difference. (Takao Hensch: U.S. joint Professor of Neurology and Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University's Center for Brain Science)

CHILDHOOD : There is nothing . . . more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881)

CHILDHOOD : We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until . . . we have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)

CHILDHOOD : Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be. (Rhawn Joseph: U.S. neuroscientist and author)

CHILDREN : By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)

CHILDREN : Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. (Lady B. Johnson: U.S. socialite and the First Lady of the United States as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1912-2007)

CHILDREN : Children are not small adults. (Unknown Source: )

CHILDREN : Children are the bridge to heaven. (Persian Proverb: )

CHILDREN : Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

CHILDREN : Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

CHILDREN : Children should be seen and not heard. (English proverb: )

CHILDREN : If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CHILDREN : Offspring are not meant to be molded, but unfolded. (Jesse Lair: U.S. professor and author who wrote a bestselling book considered the forerunner of the self-help movement, 1927-2000)

CHILDREN : Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. (Unknown Source: )

CHILDREN : There are no illegitimate children—only illegitimate parents. (Leon R. Yankwich: U.S. Federal judge, 1888-1975)

CHILDREN : Your children are not your children . . . . They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

CHOICES : A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

CHOICES : As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

CHOICES : Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. (John C. Maxwell: U.S. author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership, Born 1947)

CHOICES : Choices are the hinges of destiny. (Edwin Markham: U.S. social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)

CHOICES : Do not follow where the path leads. Rather, go where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

CHOICES : He who has a choice has trouble. (Dutch Proverb: )

CHOICES : How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard: U.S. author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction—one book of which won a Pulitzer Prize, Born 1945)

CHOICES : I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

CHOICES : I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings world. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

CHOICES : In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

CHOICES : It is our choices and attitudes that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

CHOICES : It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. (Lou Holtz: former U.S. football player, coach, and analyst, Born 1937)

CHOICES : Knock the "t" off the "can't." (George Reeves: U.S. actor, best known for his television role as 'Superman', 1914-1959)

CHOICES : Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. (Unknown Source: )

CHOICES : Life is like a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you only spend it once. (Lillian Dickson: U.S. independent missionary, author, and public speaker who was known as an influential figure in the development of the U.S. middle class during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 1901-1983)

CHOICES : Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will. (Jawaharal Nehru: India's first Prime Minister as a secular democratic republic, one who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964)

CHOICES : 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)

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

CHOICES : Mishaps are like knives — that either serve us or cut us — as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

CHOICES : No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. (Turkish Proverb: )

CHOICES : None but ourselves can free our minds. (Bob Marley: Jamaican singer, guitarist, and songwriter, 1945-1981)

CHOICES : Optimism is an intellectual choice. (Diana Schneider: German singer and entertainer)

CHOICES : The church is close, but the road is ice-covered. The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully. (Russian Proverb: )

CHOICES : The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

CHOICES : The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

CHOICES : The ultimate choices for a man . . . are to create or destroy, to love or to hate. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

CHOICES : Two roads diverged in the wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

CHOICES : We all have two choices. We can make a living OR we can design a life. (Unknown Source: )

CHOICES : We all have two choices: We can make a living OR we can design a life. (John Q. Adams: U.S. politician who served as the sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848)

CHOICES : We can't always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it. (Unknown Source: )

CHOICES : 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)

CHOICES : What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road? (Unknown Source: )

CHOICES : What you don't do can be a destructive force. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

CHOICES : When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. (Lois M. Bujold: U.S. speculative fiction writer. who has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, Born 1949)

CHOICES : When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

CHOICES : You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. (John Lydgate: English monk and poet, 1370-1451)

CHOICES : Your world is as big as you make it. (Georgia D. Johnson: U.S. poet and journalist who was one of the earliest female African-American playwrights and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, 1880-1966)

CHOICES : “ There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. (Denis Waitley: U.S. motivational speaker, writer, and consultant, Born 1933)

CHRISTIANITY : Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

CHRISTIANITY : Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

CHRISTIANITY : If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact. (John Haynes: A U.S. a prominent Unitarian minister, pacifist, and co-founder of the NAACP and the ACLU, 1879-1964)

CHRISTIANITY : Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

CHRISTIANITY : Two great European narcotics: alcohol and Christianity. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

CIRCUMSTANCES : An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. (Joseph McCabe: )

CIRCUMSTANCES : Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. (Samuel Lover: Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, 1797-1868)

CIRCUMSTANCES : Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. (Herodotus: Greek historian who is known for having written the book "The Histories," and who is often referred to as "The Father of History,” 484—425 B.C.E.)

CIRCUMSTANCES : Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

CIRCUMSTANCES : Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. (Titus Livy: Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, 59 B.C.E.—17 A.D.)

CIRCUMSTANCES : 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.)

CIRCUMSTANCES : It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. (Unknown Source: )

CIRCUMSTANCES : Learn to live with what’s due. (Unknown Source: )

CIRCUMSTANCES : Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

CIRCUMSTANCES : Mishaps are like knives — that either serve us or cut us — as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

CIRCUMSTANCES : The lottery of birth — Poverty, Privilege (Unknown Source: )

CIRCUMSTANCES : What are circumstances? I make circumstances. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

CIRCUMSTANCES : Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. (Nido Qubein: U.S. Lebanese-Jordanian businessman, university president, and motivational speaker, Born 1948)

CITIES : A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. (Aristotle Onassis: Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1906-1975)

CITIES : 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)

CITIES : City life—millions of people being lonesome together. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

CITIES : There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city. (Kathleen Norris: U.S. award-winning novelist and columnist, 1880-1966)

CITIES : What is the city but the people? (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

CITIZENRY : The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

CITIZENRY : The most important political office is that of private citizen. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941)

CITIZENSHIP : A man without a vote is a man without protection. (Lyndon B. Johnson: U.S. politician who served as the 36th President of the United States, 1908-1973)

CITIZENSHIP : Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

CITIZENSHIP : Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

CITIZENSHIP : Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

CITIZENSHIP : I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

CITIZENSHIP : Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. (Robert Orben: U.S. professional comedy writer, magician, and presidential speech writer, Born 1927)

CITIZENSHIP : My country is the world and my religion is to do good. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

CITIZENSHIP : While we all carry a national passport out of necessity, ‘the world is our country’. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

CIVIL RIGHTS : Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

CIVIL RIGHTS : I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

CIVIL RIGHTS : I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman. (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

CIVIL RIGHTS : The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

CIVIL RIGHTS : The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. (Edward Abbey: U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)

CIVIL RIGHTS : The law can’t make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

CIVIL RIGHTS : There are those who say -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. (Hubert Humphrey: U.S. senator who then served as Vice-President, 1911-1978)

CIVIL RIGHTS : When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. (Bayard Rustin: African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights, 1912-1987)

CIVILITY : A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable. (Unknown Source: )

CIVILITY : Civility is not a sign of weakness. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

CIVILITY : Do no harm, but take no shit. (Moira Fowley-Doyle: French-Irish author and artist)

CIVILITY : Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934)

CIVILITY : Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

CIVILITY : The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

CIVILITY : The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

CIVILITY : We haven't yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses. (Lewis Thomas: U.S. physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher, 1913-1993)

CIVILIZATION : Civilization is a movement - not a condition; a voyage - not a harbour. (Arnold Toynbee: British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

CIVILIZATION : Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. (Arnold Toynbee: British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

CIVILIZATION : Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind. (Charles L. Lucas: U.S. World War II Gold Star Veteran)

CIVILIZATION : Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. (Jose Ortega y Gasset: Spanish philosopher and essayist, 1883-1955)

CIVILIZATION : Civilization is the encouragement of differences. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CIVILIZATION : Civilization represents a repeating, intertwining cycle of chaos, violence, and order. Wars drive technological progress and tighten the bonds that hold us together. Little wonder it is so hard to kick the habit. (Peter Turchin: Russian-American scientist specializing in the statistical analysis of cultural evolution, Born 1957)

CIVILIZATION : Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural—while it was recent. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

CIVILIZATION : Imagine there's no country . . . Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion, too / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace. (John Lennon: English musician, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the rock band, the Beatles, 1940-1980)

CIVILIZATION : Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

CIVILIZATION : Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence are wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; commerce without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice; and politics without principle. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CIVILIZATION : Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. (Elizabeth C. Stanton: U.S. suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement, 1815-1902)

CIVILIZATION : 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.)

CIVILIZATION : Speech is civilization itself. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955)

CIVILIZATION : The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. (Jules B. d'Aurevilly: French novelist and short story writer, 1808-1889)

CIVILIZATION : The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. (Unknown Source: )

CIVILIZATION : The only real nation is humanity. (Tracy Kidder: U.S. writer of nonfiction books and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Born 1945)

CIVILIZATION : The onset of agriculture and the emergence of village life was civilization, itself (Peter Turchin: Russian-American scientist specializing in the statistical analysis of cultural evolution, Born 1957)

CIVILIZATION : The veneer of civilization is paper thin. We are its guardians, and we cannot rest. (Tom Lantos: U.S. human rights activist who served in the California legislature, 1928-2008)

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

CIVILIZATION : We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race. (Arnold Toynbee: British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

CIVILIZATION : We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

CIVILIZATIONS : Art is the signature of civilizations. (Beverly Sills: U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)

CIVILIZATIONS : Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. (Arnold Toynbee: British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

CLARIFICATION : Evil is like a shadow; it has no real substance of its own; it is simply a lack of light. In order to cause a shadow—or evil—to disappear, you must shine light on it. (Shakti Gawain: U.S. author and teacher, Born 1948)

CLARIFICATION : The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

CLARIFICATION : Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

CLARITY : Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)

CLARITY : If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CLARITY : You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CLASSISM : Nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891)

CLEANLINESS : Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. (John Wesley: English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism, 1703-1791)

CLEANSING : Be melting snow / Wash yourself of yourself. (Rumi: 13th-century Persian 13th century poet, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic, 1207-1273)

CLEVERNESS : Cleverness is not wisdom. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

CLEVERNESS : He that comes first to the hill / May sit where he will. (Scottish Proverb: )

CLEVERNESS : Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

CLEVERNESS : The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them. (Turkish Proverb: )

CLEVERNESS : Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. (James A. Garfield: U.S. politician and 20th president of the United States, serving only six and a half months until his death by assassination, 1831-1881)

CLEVERNESS : When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. (Abraham J. Heschel: Polish-born U.S. rabbi and professor, 1907-1972)

CLEVERNESS : You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions, (Naguib Mahfouz: Egyptian writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature who is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, 1911-2006)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything. (Henry S. Haskins: U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : He hears but half who hears one party only. (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : I pity those who . . . despise others because they’re not the same as themselves. (Mark Van Doren: U.S. poet, writer, critic, scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, 1894-1972)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : If only closed minds came with closed mouths! (Unknown Source: )

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. (Margaret Halsey: U.S. novelist, 1910-1997)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : It’s madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures. (Francois Mauriac: French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, 1885-1970)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : None so blind as those that will not see. (Matthew Henry: British Nonconformist minister and author, best known for the six-volume biblical commentary Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, 1662-1714)

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

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality. (Sheri S. Tepper: U.S. writer known known for her feminist science fiction, which explored themes of sociology, gender, and equality, (1929-2016))

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Psychosclerosis is the hardening of the mind—refusing to admit any new idea contrary to one's own beliefs and ideas. (Ashley Montagu: British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development, 1905-1999)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. (Ayn Rand: Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter, 1905-1982)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices. (Unknown Source: )

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Some people have minds like cement---all mixed up and permanently set. (Alfred E. Neuman: the fictitious mascot and cover-boy of the American humor magazine, “Mad.”)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : The rocks in the water don't know how the rocks in the sun feel. (Haitian Proverb: )

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

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : There's none so blind as they that won't see. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : Those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

CLOSE-MINDEDNESS : You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. (Indira Gandhi: Indian politician who was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India and was named by 'Time' magazine among the world's 100 powerful women who defined the last century, 1917-1984))

CLOTHES : The clothes make the man. (Latin Proverb: )

CLOTHING : Mutton dressed as a lamb (English proverb: )

CLOTHING : Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need / But he to wear them. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

CLOTHING : They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes. (Anthony Trollope: English novelist whose works revolve around political, social, and gender issues, 1815-1882)

CLUELESSNESS : The rich know not who is his friend. (Unknown Source: )

CLUES : Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped. (African Proverb: )

COFFEE : Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. (Turkish Proverb: )

COGNITION : Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses. (Unknown Source: )

COHERENCE : There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. (Ansel Adams: U.S. landscape photographer and environmentalist, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the U.S. Presidential Award of Freedom, 1902-1984)

COINCIDENCE : Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

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

COLLABORATION : If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. (African Proverb: )

COLLEGE : Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. (Unknown Source: )

COLONIALISM : Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

COLONIALISM : The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom forever. (Jomo Kenyatta: Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister and then as its first President, 1891-1978)

COLONIALISM : There isn't a single square inch of the world that hasn't been stolen. In other words, there is no place in the world that has not been stolen or taken from someone else. Countries talk about hereditary borders, but such talk is nonsense There has always been someone else there before. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

COLONIALISM (U.S.A.) : The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. (Unknown Source: )

COLOR : Color is the smiles of nature. (Leigh Hunt: English critic, essayist, and poet, 1784-1859)

COLORS : Colors speak all languages. (Joseph Addison: English essayist, poet, playwright, politician, and co-founder of 'The Spectator' magazine, 1672-1719)

COMBAT : People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. (Abigail Van Buren: U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the 'Dear Abby' column in 1956, which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

COMEDY : Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004)

COMEDY : Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

COMFORT : The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

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

COMMERCE : Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations. (William E. Gladstone: British statesman who served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms, and he also also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, for over 12 years, 1809-1898)

COMMERCE : Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. (James A. Garfield: U.S. politician and 20th president of the United States, serving only six and a half months until his death by assassination, 1831-1881)

COMMERCE : Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

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

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

COMMISERATION : Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)

COMMISERATION : Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

COMMISERATION : One must want to experience the great problems with one’s body and one’s soul. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

COMMISERATION : Shared sorrow is half sorrow. (Danish Proverb: )

COMMITMENT : A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. (James A. Garfield: U.S. politician and 20th president of the United States, serving only six and a half months until his death by assassination, 1831-1881)

COMMITMENT : Anyone can do any amount of work—provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. (Robert Benchley: U.S. humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor, 1889-1945)

COMMITMENT : Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. (Unknown Source: )

COMMITMENT : Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. (Italian Proverb: )

COMMITMENT : Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. (Alonzo N. Benn: U.S. poet, Born 1935)

COMMITMENT : Do your best; history will do the rest. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)

COMMITMENT : Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

COMMITMENT : Every calling is great when greatly pursued. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

COMMITMENT : Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. (Daniel Webster: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

COMMITMENT : Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. (Washington Irving: U.S. short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat, 1783-1859)

COMMITMENT : Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (L. J. Suenens: Belgian Catholic Cardinal(, 1904-1996)

COMMITMENT : Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. (Robert Half: U.S. career consultant)

COMMITMENT : He turns not back who is bound to a star. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

COMMITMENT : He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

COMMITMENT : I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)

COMMITMENT : I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard. (William L. Garrison: U.S. abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer, 1805-1879)

COMMITMENT : I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. (Edward E. Hale: U.S. historian, Unitarian minister, and author, 1822-1909)

COMMITMENT : I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. (Estee Lauder: U.S. business woman and cosmetics pioneer)

COMMITMENT : I would rather die of passion than of boredom. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

COMMITMENT : If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

COMMITMENT : If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. (Mokhtar Dahari: Malaysian professional football payer, 1953-1991)

COMMITMENT : My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

COMMITMENT : Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

COMMITMENT : Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

COMMITMENT : Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. (Isaac Barrow: English Christian theologian and mathematician, 1630-1677)

COMMITMENT : One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

COMMITMENT : Passion is the log that keeps the fire of purpose blazing. (Oprah Winfrey: U.S. talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist, born 1954.)

COMMITMENT : Purpose is what gives life a meaning. (Charles H. Parkhurst: US. clergyman and social reformer, 1842-1933)

COMMITMENT : Some people are committed to putting good energy into the universe. (Unknown Source: )

COMMITMENT : The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

COMMITMENT : The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot: British journalist and businessman, 1826-1877)

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

COMMITMENT : The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. (Dan Dennett: U.S. philosopher and cognitive scientist, 1942-2024)

COMMITMENT : The secret of success is constancy to purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

COMMITMENT : The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

COMMITMENT : The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

COMMITMENT : Those who have a why or what to live for can bear almost any how. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

COMMITMENT : Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

COMMITMENT : Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. (Josiah Royce: U.S. pragmatist and objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism, 1855-1916)

COMMITMENT : We must gird up our loins . . . (Matthew Henry: British Nonconformist minister and author, best known for the six-volume biblical commentary Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, 1662-1714)

COMMITMENT : What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about. (Unknown Source: )

COMMITMENT : 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.)

COMMITMENT : What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to. (Rex Stout: U.S. detective fiction writer, 1886-1975)

COMMITMENT : Where there's a will, there's a way. (English proverb: )

COMMITTEES : A camel is a horse designed by a committee. (Unknown Source: )

COMMITTEES : 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)

COMMITTEES : A committee is a group of people who keep minutes and waste hours. (Milton Berle: U.S. comedian, actor. and the first major U.S. television star, known as 'Uncle Miltie,' 1908-2002)

COMMITTEES : A committee takes hours to put into minutes what can be done in seconds. (Unknown Source: )

COMMITTEES : If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. (Arthur Goldberg: U.S. statesman, jurist of the U.S. Court, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1908-1990)

COMMITTEES : If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt. (J. B. Hughes: Australian-British developer and politician, 1817-1881)

COMMON SENSE : Common sense is not so common. (Unknown Source: )

COMMON SENSE : Common sense is quite rare. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

COMMON SENSE : Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

COMMON SENSE : Common sense is very uncommon. (Horace Greeley: U.S. author and statesman who was the founder and editor of the 'New-York Tribune,' 1811-1872)

COMMUNICATION : A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. (W. H. Auden: English-American poet, 1907-1973)

COMMUNICATION : A good conversation is like a miniskirt: short enough to retain interest, but long enough to cover the subject. (Celeste Headlee: U.S. radio journalist, author, and public speaker, Born 1969)

COMMUNICATION : A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. (Max Weinreich: Yiddish linguist and author, 1894-1969)

COMMUNICATION : A man's ruin lies in his tongue. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. (Ludwig Wittgenstein: Austrian-British philosopher, 1889-1951)

COMMUNICATION : A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures? (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. (Dorothea Brande: U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948)

COMMUNICATION : A problem well stated is a problem half solved. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

COMMUNICATION : A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

COMMUNICATION : A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Charles J. Darling: English lawyer, judge, and politician, 1849-1936)

COMMUNICATION : A trouble shared is halved. (Dorothy Sayers: English crime writer and poet, 1893-1957)

COMMUNICATION : A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : A word in earnest is as good as a speech. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

COMMUNICATION : Actions speak louder than words. (St. Anthony of Padua: Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order, 1195-1231)

COMMUNICATION : After all is said and done, more is said than done (Aesop Fable: )

COMMUNICATION : Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

COMMUNICATION : Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

COMMUNICATION : Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

COMMUNICATION : Clever lines routinely travel from obscure mouths to prominent ones. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : Conceit causes more conversation than wit. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

COMMUNICATION : Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

COMMUNICATION : Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor is the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

COMMUNICATION : Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. (Neil d. Tyson: U.S. astrophysicist and author, Born 1958)

COMMUNICATION : Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. (Verna Myers: U.S. diversity consultant, author, speaker, lawyer, and corporate executive)

COMMUNICATION : Diversity is the art of thinking independently together. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

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

COMMUNICATION : Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras: Ancient Greek philosopher whose teachings influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy, c. 570–c. 495 B.C.E.)

COMMUNICATION : Don't ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday. (Robert Newell: U.S. pioneer, fur trapper, and politician, 1807-1869)

COMMUNICATION : Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. (Kin Hubbard: U.S. cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, 1868-1930)

COMMUNICATION : Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

COMMUNICATION : Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. (Kenny Ausubel: U.S. social entrepreneur, investigative journalist, and award-winning filmmaker, Born 1949)

COMMUNICATION : Epigrams succeed where epics fail. (Persian Proverb: )

COMMUNICATION : 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)

COMMUNICATION : Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts. (Foster M. Russell: U.S. author)

COMMUNICATION : Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. (Yakov Smirnoff: Jewish Soviet-American comedian, actor, and writer, Born 1951)

COMMUNICATION : Everyone can enhance a speech with a good "wardrobe." (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : Friends are lost by calling too often and by not calling often enough. (French Proverb: )

COMMUNICATION : Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

COMMUNICATION : Give a man a mask and he will show his true face. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

COMMUNICATION : Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. (Anne M. Lindbergh: U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001)

COMMUNICATION : Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

COMMUNICATION : He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

COMMUNICATION : He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

COMMUNICATION : Head-talk is for dealing. Heart-talk is for healing. (Rhea Zakich: U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)

COMMUNICATION : I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. (Virginia Satir: U.S. psychotherapist and author, 1916-1988)

COMMUNICATION : I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say. (Friedrich Waisman: Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher who is best known as one of the key theorists in logical positivism, 1896-1959)

COMMUNICATION : I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. (GALILEI GALILEO: Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who has been called the ‘father of observational astronomy,’ and the ‘father of modern physics,’ 1564-1642)

COMMUNICATION : I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

COMMUNICATION : I speak two languages, Body and English. (Mae West: U.S. actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol, 1893-1980)

COMMUNICATION : I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles. But today it means getting along with people. (Indira Gandhi: Indian politician who was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India and was named by 'Time' magazine among the world's 100 powerful women who defined the last century, 1917-1984))

COMMUNICATION : I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)

COMMUNICATION : If electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted by electricity. (Samuel Morse: U.S. painter and inventor who contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, 1791-1872)

COMMUNICATION : If there's anything I can't stand it's someone who talks while I'm interrupting. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : If there's anything I can't stand, it's someone who talks while I'm interrupting. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : If we opened up people, we would find a landscape. (Agnes Varda: Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist, 1928-2019))

COMMUNICATION : If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself; if you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

COMMUNICATION : If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

COMMUNICATION : If you can’t offend, you can’t be honest. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

COMMUNICATION : If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

COMMUNICATION : In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

COMMUNICATION : In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite. (Paul Dirac: English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and electrodynamics 1902-1984)

COMMUNICATION : Information is giving out; communication is getting through. (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)

COMMUNICATION : It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

COMMUNICATION : It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

COMMUNICATION : It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers. (Pierre M. de Levis: French duke, politician, aphorist, and soldier, 1764-1830)

COMMUNICATION : It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

COMMUNICATION : It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing. (Roger Babson: U.S. entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist, 1875-1967)

COMMUNICATION : It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colors, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

COMMUNICATION : I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

COMMUNICATION : Know your truth and tell your truth. (Kent Matthies: U.S. psychotherapist)

COMMUNICATION : Knowledge of terminology often passes for knowledge of the subject. (Henry Rhodes: U. S. scientific glass-blower for the U.S. govt.’s Manhattan Atomic Bomb project, 1919-2005)

COMMUNICATION : Language actually interferes with communication . . . it gets in the way like an over-dominant sense . . . . Words aren't always the most reliable thing. (Lily King: U.S. novelist, Born 1963)

COMMUNICATION : Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. (Alan Dundes: U.S. folklorist who spent much of his career as a professional academic and has been hailed as 'the most renowned Folklorist of his time,' 1934-2005)

COMMUNICATION : Loose lips sink ships. (U.S. Proverb: )

COMMUNICATION : Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. (Margaret Millar: Canadian-American mystery and suspense writer, 1915-1994)

COMMUNICATION : Most of us don’t listen with the intent to understand. We listen with the intent to reply. (Celeste Headlee: U.S. radio journalist, author, and public speaker, Born 1969)

COMMUNICATION : Most people have to talk so they won't hear. (Mary Sarton: U.S. poet, novelist and memoirist who is lauded by literary and feminist critics for her works addressing themes in gender, sexuality, and universality, 1912-1995)

COMMUNICATION : My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

COMMUNICATION : No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean. (Henry B. Adams: U.S. historian and descendant of two U.S. presidents, 1838-1918)

COMMUNICATION : Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

COMMUNICATION : One should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them. (Andy Rooney: U.S. radio and television writer and broadcaster, 1919-2011)

COMMUNICATION : One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes. (John Galsworthy: English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1867-1933)

COMMUNICATION : People change and forget to tell each other. (Lillian Hellman: U.S. dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism, 1905-1984)

COMMUNICATION : People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs. (Marianne Williamson: U.S. author, speaker, and political activist, Born 1952)

COMMUNICATION : People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

COMMUNICATION : Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. (Laura I. Wilder: U.S. novelist, 1867-1957)

COMMUNICATION : Preach the Gospel at all times and, when necessary, use words. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226)

COMMUNICATION : Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

COMMUNICATION : Silence is one great art of conversation. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

COMMUNICATION : Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. (Igor Stravinsky: Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, 1882-1971)

COMMUNICATION : Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. (Louis Nizer: U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994)

COMMUNICATION : Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

COMMUNICATION : Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

COMMUNICATION : Technology is literally an extension of man, as the ax is an extension of the hand, the wheel as an extension of the foot. Communications technology, on the other hand, is an extension of thought, of consciousness, of man's unique perceptual capacities. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

COMMUNICATION : Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

COMMUNICATION : Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand. (Native American Proverb: )

COMMUNICATION : The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

COMMUNICATION : The best of us must sometimes eat our words. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

COMMUNICATION : The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one. (Joan Baez: U.S. singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice, Born 1941)

COMMUNICATION : The good we can do together surpasses the good we can do alone. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

COMMUNICATION : The liberty of discussion is the chief safeguard of all other liberties. (Thomas B. Macaulay: British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859)

COMMUNICATION : The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton: English writer and politician who coined the phrases 'the great unwashed,' 'the pursuit of the almighty dollar,' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 1803-1873)

COMMUNICATION : The medium is the message. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

COMMUNICATION : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

COMMUNICATION : The most flexible mode of expression is dialogue. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

COMMUNICATION : The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

COMMUNICATION : The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

COMMUNICATION : The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. (Kin Hubbard: U.S. cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, 1868-1930)

COMMUNICATION : 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)

COMMUNICATION : The possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations. (Lewis Hastings: U.S. organic chemist, 1917-1999)

COMMUNICATION : The silent dog is the first to bite. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

COMMUNICATION : The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. (Ben Sira: Jewish scribe of Jerusalem whose collection of ethical teachings is found in Ecclesiasticus, written in c. 200—175 B.C.E.)

COMMUNICATION : The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. (Henry S. Haskins: U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

COMMUNICATION : The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. (Romanian Proverb: )

COMMUNICATION : The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

COMMUNICATION : The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. (Dennis Potter: English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994)

COMMUNICATION : The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. (: )

COMMUNICATION : There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly- (Antisthenes: Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates, 445 B.C.E.-- 365 B.C.E.)

COMMUNICATION : There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. (Unknown Source: )

COMMUNICATION : There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

COMMUNICATION : There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. (John Updike: U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009)

COMMUNICATION : 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)

COMMUNICATION : There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

COMMUNICATION : Thought flies and words go on foot. (Julien Green: French-American writer of somber psychological novels and an elected member of the Académie Française, 1900-1998)

COMMUNICATION : To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

COMMUNICATION : Today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, and shallow comments over deep conversations. (Thomas L. Friedman: U.S. author, foreign affairs columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Born 1953)

COMMUNICATION : Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures—in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

COMMUNICATION : Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

COMMUNICATION : True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

COMMUNICATION : True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. (Dave T. Gentry: U.S. author, motivational speaker, philanthropist, and advocate for individuals and families affected by spinal cord injuries, Born 1985)

COMMUNICATION : We have two ears and one mouth. We should use them proportionately. (Jon Berghoff: U.S. creator of the XCHANGE Approach, and considered the Godfather of conversational choreography)

COMMUNICATION : We live in a world in which we have more diatribe and less dialogue. (Murad Gharibian: U.S. dentist, Born 1969)

COMMUNICATION : Well done is better than well said. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

COMMUNICATION : When you counsel someone, you should . . . be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

COMMUNICATION : Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

COMMUNICATION : Why is it that one can look at a lion . . . or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair? (Walker Percy: U.S. author writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics, 1916-1990)

COMMUNICATION : Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

COMMUNICATION : Words are like eggs: when they are hatched they have wings. (Malagasy Proverb: )

COMMUNICATION : Words are loaded pistols. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)

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

COMMUNICATION : Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

COMMUNICATION : You ain’t learnin’ nothin’ when you’re talkin’. (Sid W. Richardson: Texas businessman and philanthropist [as cited by Lyndon B. Johnson], 1891-1959)

COMMUNICATION : 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)

COMMUNICATION : You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

COMMUNICATION : You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. (Brenda Ueland: U.S. journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing, 1891-1985)

COMMUNISM : Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. (Karl Marx: German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary whose name is associated with the social theory - 'Marxism,' 1818-1883)

COMMUNISM : What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings / For equal division of unequal earnings. (Ebenezer Elliott: English poet and leader to repeal laws which were causing hardship among the poor, 1781-1849)

COMMUNITY : No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

COMMUNITY : The good we can do together surpasses the good we can do alone. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

COMMUNITY : We are in the world in relationship with others. Our capacity to realize our own objectives is inextricably wrapped up with the capacity of others to realize theirs. (Unknown Source: )

COMPANIONS : A man is known by the company he keeps. (Aesop Fable: )

COMPANIONS : Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. (Unknown Source: )

COMPANIONS : If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp. (Latin Proverb: )

COMPANIONSHIP : Two's a company, three's a crowd. (English proverb: )

COMPASSION : Compassion . . . can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)

COMPASSION : Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. (Hubert Humphrey: U.S. senator who then served as Vice-President, 1911-1978)

COMPASSION : Compassion opens the inner door of the heart. (Unknown Source: )

COMPASSION : Courage and clemency are equal virtues. (Mary D. Manley: English author, playwright, and political pamphleteer, 1663-1724)

COMPASSION : Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me / I lift my lamp beside the golden door. (Emma Lazarus: U.S. poet best known for 'The New Colossus,' a sonnet whose lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the U.S. Statue of Liberty, 1849-1887)

COMPASSION : I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. (Ellen DeGeneres: U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer, Born 1958)

COMPASSION : I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. (Unknown Source: )

COMPASSION : My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

COMPASSION : Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

COMPASSION : People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine. (Nancy Farmer: U.S. author of children’s and young adults' books, who has received several book awards, Born, 1941)

COMPASSION : Sometimes you find people who have sun inside them. They have an internal being that shines so bright it feels like sun warming your soul. (Unknown Source: )

COMPENSATION : If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

COMPENSATION : There are no gains without pains. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

COMPETITION : After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box (Italian Proverb: )

COMPETITION : Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. (Bill Bradley: U.S. politician and former professional basketball player, Born 1943)

COMPETITION : Better to be first in a village than second in Rome. (Unknown Source: )

COMPETITION : He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

COMPETITION : His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

COMPETITION : 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)

COMPETITION : More powerful than the desire for survival is the will to get the better of the other fellow (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

COMPETITION : Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it. (Charles M. Sheldon: U.S. minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement,1857-1946)

COMPETITION : Sometimes you win: sometimes you learn. (Unknown Source: )

COMPETITION : The game isn't over until it's over. (Yogi Berra: U.S. professional baseball catcher, who later took on the roles of manager and coach and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1925-2015)

COMPETITION : The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

COMPETITION : The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

COMPETITION : The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. (Rutherford B. Hayes: U.S. politician. abolitionist, and governor of the state of Ohio who later served as the 19th president of the United States, 1822-1893)

COMPETITION : What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

COMPETITION : With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

COMPETITION : You've got to be twice as good to get half as far. (Negro Proverb: )

COMPLAINTS : I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road. (Unknown Source: )

COMPLETION : It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. (Amelia Earhart: U.S. aviation pioneer [the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean] and author, 1897-1937)

COMPLEXITY : Great complexity is easier to perceive at times than great simplicity. (Unknown Source: )

COMPLEXITY : 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)

COMPLEXITY : Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)

COMPLIANCE : Silence is compliance. (Unknown Source: )

COMPLICITY : If I were to remain silent, I would be guilty of complicity (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

COMPLICITY : Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor. (Ginetta Sagan: Italian-born American human rights activist best known for her work with Amnesty International on behalf of prisoners of conscience, 1925-2000)

COMPLICITY : There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment—and nothing more corrupting. (A. J. P. Taylor: English historian, 1906-1990)

COMPLIMENT : I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

COMPLIMENT : The sight of you is good for sore eyes. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

COMPLIMENTS : A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

COMPREHENSION : O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. (William Penn: U.S. writer, Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, known for his advocacy of democracy and religious freedom, and notable for his good relations with the Lenape Native Americans, 1644-1718)

COMPREHENSION : You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

COMPROMISE : All government-- indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act-- is founded on compromise and barter. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

COMPROMISE : Bend, don't break with the wind. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)

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

COMPROMISE : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Amy Gutmann: U.S. professor of Political Science and President of the University of Pennsylvania, Born 1949)

COMPROMISE : It has always seemed to me that the test of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. (Chinua Achebe: Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930-2013)

COMPROMISE : Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

COMPROMISE : One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. (Chinua Achebe: Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930-2013)

COMPROMISE : Real life is, to most men . . . a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

COMPROMISE : Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. It leads us to a wondrous path of being able to negotiate, to engage in dialogue, and to make compromises on a daily basis. (Unknown Source: )

COMPROMISE : That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation. (Mary P. Follett: U.S. social worker, pioneer in the fields of organizational theory, who has been called the 'Mother of Modern Management', 1868-1933)

COMPROMISE : We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good. (Italian Proverb: )

COMPROMISE : You must lose a fly to catch a trout. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

COMPROMISES : Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

COMPROMISES : Give and take makes good friends. (Scottish Proverb: )

COMPULSION : Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. (Robert H. Jackson: U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954)

COMPUTER-SCIENCE : The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming: U.S. mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering, 1915-1918)

COMPUTER-SCIENCE : The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. (Tim Berners-Lee: British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the 'World Wide Web' and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Born 1955)

COMPUTER-SCIENCE : You affect the world by what you browse. (Tim Berners-Lee: British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the 'World Wide Web' and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Born 1955)

COMPUTERS : Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make easier don't need to be done. (Andy Rooney: U.S. radio and television writer and broadcaster, 1919-2011)

CONCEALMENT : There is no shame in accepting the mistakes of one's country; the shame is in concealing the mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in. (Tony Angastiniotis: Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)

CONCEIT : Conceit causes more conversation than wit. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

CONCEIT : He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

CONCEIT : When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

CONCENTRATION : A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

CONCENTRATION : A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

CONCENTRATION : Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. (Michael Friedman: U.S. composer and lyricist, l975-2017)

CONCENTRATION : No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him. (Marcus S. Seneca (the Elder): Roman orator and writer, 54 B.C.E.—c. A.D. 39))

CONCENTRATION : The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything. (Lee Iacocca: U.S. automobile executive who first developed several cards for the Ford Motor Co. and then later revived the Chrysler Corp. as its CEO, 1924-2019)

CONCENTRATION : The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, looking . . . neither to the right nor the left. (Unknown Source: )

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

CONCEPTS : There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. (Ansel Adams: U.S. landscape photographer and environmentalist, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the U.S. Presidential Award of Freedom, 1902-1984)

CONCERNS : Honor grows from qualms. (John Leonard: U.S. literary, television, film, and cultural critic, 1939-2008)

CONCERNS : It is better to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterwards. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

CONCESSIONS : Give and take makes good friends. (Scottish Proverb: )

CONCLUSIONS : False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

CONCLUSIONS : Strength is a matter of the made-up mind. (Unknown Source: )

CONDESCENSION : If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. (John Brunner: British writer of science fiction novels, 1934-1995)

CONDOLENCES : Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts. (Gunnar Mortensen: U.S. television cameraman on the "Good Morning Show," 1982-2022)

CONDUCT : The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. (Philo Junius: British writer (Pseudonym) who in the late 18th century wrote a series of controversial and influential letters written anonymously in the Public Advertiser who wrote 1769-1771)

CONFESSION : A fault confessed is half-redressed. (Nikos Kazantzakis: Greek writer and nine-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1883-1957)

CONFESSION : It is the confession, not the priest, that give us absolution. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

CONFESSION : There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. (Daniel Webster: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

CONFESSION : To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

CONFIDENCE : To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

CONFIDENTIALIITY : Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

CONFINEMENT : To define it is to confine it. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

CONFLICT : is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CONFLICT : Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant: French writer, remembered as a master of the short-story form, 1850-1893)

CONFLICT : Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. (Unknown Source: )

CONFLICT : Who made them, wind and storm? . . . . If heaven itself cannot storm for long / What matter, then, the storms of man? (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

CONFLICT : You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. (John Lydgate: English monk and poet, 1370-1451)

CONFLICTS : A recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion . . . and the discovery of a standard of judgment. (Unknown Source: )

CONFLICTS : Conflict Resolution: Reflect upon one another's uniquenesses. (Unknown Source: )

CONFORMITY : 'You must be in fashion' is the utterance of weak-headed mortals. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892)

CONFORMITY : Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

CONFORMITY : Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from that of their social environment. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CONFORMITY : If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

CONFORMITY : Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

CONFORMITY : The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. (Charles Schwab: U.S. investor, founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation, Born 1937)

CONFORMITY : The nail that sticks out is hammered down. (Unknown Source: )

CONFORMITY : The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. (Rita M. Brown: U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944)

CONFORMITY : The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

CONFORMITY : We are all born originals; why is it so many of us die copies? (Edward Young: English poet, critic, and theologian, 1683-1765)

CONFORMITY : Why fit in when you were born to stand out? (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991)

CONFRONTATION : If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. (Danish Proverb: )

CONFUSION : The question that sometimes drives me hazy: "Am I, or the others crazy?" (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CONGENIALITY : Congenial labor is essence of happiness. (Arthur C. Benson: English essayist, poet, author, academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1862—1925)

CONNECTEDNESS : A railroad is a big iron needle stitching the country together. (Jessamyn West: U.S. author of short stories and novels, who was of Quaker background and a Founder of the Palmer Society, 1902-1984)

CONNECTEDNESS : Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. (Paul Dirac: English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and electrodynamics 1902-1984)

CONNECTEDNESS : There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. (J. H. Vincent: U.S. bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1832-1920)

CONNECTIONS : Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. (Archibald Mcindoe: New Zealand plastic surgeon, 1900-1960)

CONNECTIONS : You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

CONQUEST : More powerful than the desire for survival is the will to get the better of the other fellow (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

CONQUEST : The tools of conquest do not necessarily come from bombs . . . . There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found in the minds of men. (Rod Serling: U.S. screenwriter and television producer who helped form television industry standards, 1924-1975)

CONQUEST : 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.)

CONSCIENCE : A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

CONSCIENCE : 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)

CONSCIENCE : A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. (Scottish Proverb: )

CONSCIENCE : Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. (Unknown Source: )

CONSCIENCE : Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

CONSCIENCE : Conscience does make cowards of us all. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

CONSCIENCE : 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)

CONSCIENCE : Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates . . . one must still try to follow its direction. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

CONSCIENCE : Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)

CONSCIENCE : Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

CONSCIENCE : Conscience makes cowards of us all. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

CONSCIENCE : Courage without conscience is a wild beast. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

CONSCIENCE : Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (George Sewell: English actor, 1924-2007)

CONSCIENCE : Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

CONSCIENCE : I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. (William E. Henley: English poet, critic and editor, 1849-1903)

CONSCIENCE : If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

CONSCIENCE : If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember. (Unknown Source: )

CONSCIENCE : In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. (Unknown Source: )

CONSCIENCE : Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called CONSCIENCE. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

CONSCIENCE : Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Never do anything against conscience—even if the state demands it. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CONSCIENCE : No matter where I run, I meet myself there. (Dorothy Fields: U.S. librettist and lyricist who wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films, 1905-1974)

CONSCIENCE : Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!. (Lord Byron: English poet and politician who has been recognized as one of the greatest English poets whose work remains widely read and influential, 1788-1824)

CONSCIENCE : Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

CONSCIENCE : One must want to experience the great problems with one’s body and one’s soul. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

CONSCIENCE : Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. (Walter Lippmann: U.S. reporter, political commentator, writer who coined the word 'Stereotype,' and received two Pulitzer Prizes, 1889-1974))

CONSCIENCE : Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

CONSCIENCE : Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. (George Sand: French novelist, memoirist, and journalist, 1804-1876)

CONSCIENCE : The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

CONSCIENCE : The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CONSCIENCE : The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any. (Ruth Wolff: U.S. playwright and screenwriter, 1927-2016)

CONSCIENCE : The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. (Harper Lee: U.S. novelist widely known for "To Kill a Mockingbird," for which she received a Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1926-2016)

CONSCIENCE : The soft whispers of the God in man. (Edward Young: English poet, critic, and theologian, 1683-1765)

CONSCIENCE : 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)

CONSCIENCE : There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. (Hartley Shawcross: British barrister, politician, and lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal, 1902-2003)

CONSCIENCE : There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. (French Proverb: )

CONSCIENCE : There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. (Unknown Source: )

CONSCIENCE : There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terribly as the conscience that dwells in the hears of every man. (Polybius: Greek historian, c.200—118 B.C.E.)

CONSCIENCE : There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

CONSCIENCE : There’s just ae thing I cannae bear/ an’ that’s my conscience. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

CONSCIENCE : Too often when conscience tries to speak, the line seems to be busy (Unknown Source: )

CONSCIENCE : What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Unknown Source: )

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS : If you want a work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

CONSCIOUSNESS : Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

CONSENT : Your silence gives consent. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

CONSEQUENCES : Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. (Titus Livy: Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, 59 B.C.E.—17 A.D.)

CONSEQUENCES : Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

CONSEQUENCES : How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

CONSEQUENCES : If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

CONSEQUENCES : If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

CONSEQUENCES : In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

CONSEQUENCES : In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. (Unknown Source: )

CONSEQUENCES : No good deed goes unpunished. (U.S. Proverb: )

CONSEQUENCES : There's nothing gained by the second kick of a mule. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

CONSEQUENCES : They that dance must pay the fiddler. (U.S. Proverb: )

CONSEQUENCES : 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)

CONSEQUENCES : When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. (Lois M. Bujold: U.S. speculative fiction writer. who has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, Born 1949)

CONSERVATION : The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule -- we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us were any other species in our dominant position. (Christine Stevens: U.S. animal welfare activist and conservationist, 1918-2002)

CONSERVATISM : What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

CONSISTENCY : Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

CONSISTENCY : Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. (Bernard Berenson: U.S. art historian, known for his drawings of the Florentine painters, 1865-1959)

CONSPIRACIES : Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

CONSTITUTION (U.S.A.) : The Constitution does not provide for first- and second-class citizens. (Wendell L. Wilkie: U.S. lawyer, politician, and corporate executive, 1892-1944)

CONSTITUTION (U.S.A.) : The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. (Patrick Henry: U.S. attorney, planter, orator, and one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1736-1799)

CONSTRAINT : We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would still be an evil. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

CONSULTANTS : A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

CONSULTING : Ask the experienced rather than the learned. (Arabic Proverb: )

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

CONSUMERISM : People were created to be loved / Things were created to be used / The reason why the world is in chaos / Is because things are being Loved / And people are being used. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

CONTEMPT : I shall permit no man . . . to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. (Booker T. Washington: U.S. educator, author, orator, advisor to presidents of the United States, and the dominant leader in the African-American community, 1856-1915)

CONTEMPT : Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)

CONTEMPT : 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)

CONTENTEDNESS : Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. (Zhuang Zhou: Chinese philosopher, 369-286 B.C.E.)

CONTENTMENT : A man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

CONTENTMENT : Contentment is the greatest wealth. (Mata Amritanandamayi: Indian Hindu spiritual leader, guru and humanitarian, who is revered as 'the hugging saint' by her followers, Born 1953)

CONTENTMENT : Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. (Thomas C. Haliburton: Nova Scotian politician, member of the British Parliament, judge, author, and the first international best-selling author of fiction from what is now Canada, 1796-1865)

CONTENTMENT : Contentment—one of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. (Iris Murdoch: Irish novelist and philosopher who is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious, 1919-1999)

CONTENTMENT : He is well paid that is well satisfied. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

CONTENTMENT : I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content." (Lauren Bacall: U.S. actress, known for her portrayals of strong, complex women, 1924-2014)

CONTENTMENT : It is wealth to be content. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

CONTENTMENT : May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart. (Eskimo Proverb: )

CONTENTMENT : The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)

CONTENTMENT : The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. (Unknown Source: )

CONTENTMENT : The reward of a thing well done, is to have done. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

CONTENTMENT : To know when you have enough is to be rich beyond measure (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

CONTENTMENT : Who is content with nothing possesses all things. (Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux: French poet and critic who did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, 1636-1711)

CONTINUITY : All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. (Unknown Source: )

CONTRACEPTIVES : The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

CONTRADICTION : Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor is the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

CONTRIBUTIONS : A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. (Unknown Source: )

CONTRIBUTIONS : If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

CONTRIBUTIONS : If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)

CONTRIBUTIONS : One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

CONTRIBUTIONS : Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. (Edward Dowden: Irish critic, professor, and poet, 1843-19113)

CONTRIBUTIONS : The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. (St. Chrysostom: Archbishop of Constantinople, an important Early Church Father, known for his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, 349-407 A.D.)

CONTRIBUTIONS : We are here to add what we can to life, not to what we can get from life. (William Osler: Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1849-1887)

CONTRIBUTIONS : What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop. (Greg Mortenson: U.S. professional speaker, writer, and mountaineer who served as a co-founder of the non-profit Central Asia Institute, Born 1957)

CONTRIBUTIONS : When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. (Simon Sinek: English-born American author and inspirational speaker on business leadership, Born 1973)

CONTROL : For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. (Unknown Source: )

CONTROL : Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

CONTROL : Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. (Jules Michelet: French historian who was the first to use and define the word 'Renaissance' as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a dramatic break from the Middle Ages, 1798-1874)

CONTROVERSY : No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. (Lyman Beecher: Presbyterian minister and abolitionist, 1775-1863)

CONTROVERSY : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

CONVERSATIONS : A good conversation is like a miniskirt: short enough to retain interest, but long enough to cover the subject. (Celeste Headlee: U.S. radio journalist, author, and public speaker, Born 1969)

CONVERSATIONS : Conceit causes more conversation than wit. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

CONVERSATIONS : Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. (Kin Hubbard: U.S. cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, 1868-1930)

CONVERSATIONS : Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. (Margaret Millar: Canadian-American mystery and suspense writer, 1915-1994)

CONVERSATIONS : Most of us don’t listen with the intent to understand. We listen with the intent to reply. (Celeste Headlee: U.S. radio journalist, author, and public speaker, Born 1969)

CONVERSATIONS : Silence is one great art of conversation. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

CONVERSATIONS : The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. (Henry S. Haskins: U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

CONVERSION : You have not converted a man because you have silenced him (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923)

CONVICTIONS : A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CONVICTIONS : A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all. (Evelyn Scott: U.S. novelist, playwright, and poet, 1893-1963)

CONVICTIONS : Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

CONVICTIONS : Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. (David Wolpe: U.S. Jewish rabbi, named the most influential rabbi in the U.S. by 'Newsweek' magazine and identified as one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the 'Jerusalem Post,' Born 1958)

CONVICTIONS : Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. (Ruth B. Ginsburg: U.S. lawyer, jurist, and the second female Associate Justice to be confirmed to the U.S Supreme Court, Born 1933)

CONVICTIONS : Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

CONVICTIONS : Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or conviction. (Dag Hammarskjold: Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1905-1961)

CONVICTIONS : Perform without fail what you resolve. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

CONVICTIONS : Stand up for what you believe in, even if you're standing alone. (Sophia Scholl: German student and anti-Nazi political activist who was convicted of high treason, 1921-1943))

CONVICTIONS : Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone. (Andy Biersack: U.S. songwriter, singer, and pianist, Born 1990)

CONVICTIONS : The challenge is to live consciously and intentionally. (Unknown Source: )

CONVICTIONS : The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. (William F. Scolavino: U.S. inventor of the polaroid land camera, 1954-2019)

CONVICTIONS : The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

CONVICTIONS : The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. (Henrik Ibsen: Norwegian playwright and theatre director, 1828-1906)

CONVICTIONS : Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. (Peter Marshall: U.S. game show host, television and radio personality, singer, and actor, 1926-2024)

CONVICTIONS : What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about. (Unknown Source: )

CONVICTIONS : 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.)

CONVINCIBILITY : Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be (Unknown Source: )

COOKING : I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, “Well, that’s not going to happen.” (Unknown Source: )

COOKING : When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag. (Russell Baker: U.S. journalist, narrator, and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for satirical commentary and self-critical prose, Born 1925)

COOPERATION : Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow. (Unknown Source: )

COOPERATION : If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine. (Unknown Source: )

COOPERATION : Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. (Ryunosuke Satoro: Japanese writer who is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story", 1892-1927)

COOPERATION : Many hands make light work. (William Patten: English author, scholar, and government official, c. 1510 – after 1598)

COOPERATION : 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)

COOPERATION : The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

COOPERATION : United we stand, divided we fall. (Aesop Fable: )

COOPERATION : We are all part of the Ocean of Consciousness—in its beauty, vibrancy, majesty, power, expansiveness, and serenity. Each of us may be seen as a wave and never alone. (Unknown Source: )

COOPERATION : When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward. (Unknown Source: )

COOPERATION : When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion (Ethiopian Proverb: )

COOPERATION : When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. (Unknown Source: )

COPABILITY : Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. (Unknown Source: )

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

CORPORATIONS : Our government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats whose dollars grease the wheels for lucrative contracts and easy regulation. (Bill Moyers: U.S. journalist and political commentator who also served as White House Press Secretary, Born 1934)

CORPORATIONS : The power of all corporations ought to be limited . . . . The growing wealth accumulated by them never fails to be a source of abuses. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)

CORPORATIONS : Year by year man’s liberties are trampled underfoot at the bidding of corporations and trusts, rights are invaded and law perverted. (Samuel Gompers: British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader, key figure in U.S. labor history, and Founder of the American Federation of Labor, 1850-1924))

CORPORATIONS (U.S.A.) : The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

CORRECTIONS : 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.)

CORRUPTION : As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practice or neglect to practice the primary duties of justice and humanity. (William H. Seward: U.S. politician who was a determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, 1801-1872)

CORRUPTION : Democracy dies in the dark. (Unknown Source: )

CORRUPTION : Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

CORRUPTION : It is said that "power corrupts", but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable. (David Brin: U.S. scientist and author of science fiction, Born 1950)

CORRUPTION : One bad apple can spoil a whole bunch, but once the other apples start to rot, a whole new barrel is needed. (Unknown Source: )

CORRUPTION : Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple . . . . Our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. (Graham Greene: English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century, 1904-1991)

CORRUPTION : The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. (Beth Myerson: U.S. politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Jewish Miss America, 1924-2014)

CORRUPTION : The more corrupt the state, the more laws. (Unknown Source: )

CORRUPTION : Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

CORRUPTION : To not fight is to be complicit in the corruption. (Juana Zuniga: Honduran civil rights activist, Born 1986)

CORRUPTION : Very few established institutions, governments, and constitutions . . . are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. (Walter Lippmann: U.S. reporter, political commentator, writer who coined the word 'Stereotype,' and received two Pulitzer Prizes, 1889-1974))

CORRUPTION : When foxes guard the henhouses, the hens don't flourish. (Unknown Source: )

CORRUPTION : When government becomes a lawbreaker, it's an invitation to anarchy. (Unknown Source: )

CORRUPTION : When plunder or corruption becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Frederic Bastiat: French writer and economist, 1801-1850)

CORRUPTION : When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. (Lin Yutang: Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher, and inventor, 1895-1976)

COSMETICS : Joy is the best makeup. (Anne Lamott: U.S. novelist, a non-fiction writer, and also a progressive political activist, Born 1954)

COUNSELING : When you counsel someone, you should . . . be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

COUNTRY-LIFE : The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there. (Edouard Manet: French painter and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, 1832-1883)

COURAGE : A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. (James A. Garfield: U.S. politician and 20th president of the United States, serving only six and a half months until his death by assassination, 1831-1881)

COURAGE : A wounded deer leaps the highest. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

COURAGE : All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them (Walt Disney: U.S. entrepreneur, animator, voice actor, and film producer who holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations, 1901-1966)

COURAGE : And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

COURAGE : 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)

COURAGE : Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway. (Cheryl Strayed: U.S. writer and podcast host, Born 1968)

COURAGE : Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)

COURAGE : Courage and clemency are equal virtues. (Mary D. Manley: English author, playwright, and political pamphleteer, 1663-1724)

COURAGE : Courage demands a temporary surrender of security. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937)

COURAGE : Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. (Billy Graham: U.S. religious evangelist and civil rights advocate, 1918-2018)

COURAGE : Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. (George S. Patton Jr.: U.S. Army General who commanded the military in World War II, both in the Mediterranean and in France and Germany, 1885-1945)

COURAGE : Courage is fear ignored. (Kristin Hannah: U.S. writer, Born 1960)

COURAGE : Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them. (Danielle Steel: U.S. internationally bestselling novelist, Born 1947)

COURAGE : Courage is not the absence of fear, rather the triumph over it. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

COURAGE : 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)

COURAGE : Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. (Unknown Source: )

COURAGE : Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. (Ruth Gordon: U.S. actress, playwright, and screenwriter, 1896-1985)

COURAGE : Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. (Alonzo N. Benn: U.S. poet, Born 1935)

COURAGE : Courage without conscience is a wild beast. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

COURAGE : Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David L. George: British politician who served as the Prime Minister during World War I, 1863-1945)

COURAGE : Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. (Margaret Thatcher: British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office - nicknamed the 'Iron Lady,' 1925-2013)

COURAGE : Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

COURAGE : Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom. (German Proverb: )

COURAGE : Have the courage to act instead of react. (Unknown Source: )

COURAGE : He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. (Charles Peguy: French poet, essayist, and editor, 1873-1914)

COURAGE : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

COURAGE : It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. (George C. Lichtenberg: German experimental physicist, satirist, and Anglophile, 1742-1799,)

COURAGE : It takes a lot of courage to be weak. (Unknown Source: )

COURAGE : It takes less courage to be the only one to find fault than to be the only one to find favor. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)

COURAGE : Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

COURAGE : Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

COURAGE : Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

COURAGE : Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. (Clementine Paddleford: U.S. food writer, writing for several publications about regional cuisines in the U.S. 1898-1967)

COURAGE : None but the brave deserves the fair. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700)

COURAGE : One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

COURAGE : One man with courage makes a majority . (Andrew Jackson: U.S. lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States, 1767-1845)

COURAGE : Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. (Unknown Source: )

COURAGE : Real courage is moving forward when the outcome is uncertain. (Unknown Source: )

COURAGE : Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. (Harper Lee: U.S. novelist widely known for "To Kill a Mockingbird," for which she received a Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1926-2016)

COURAGE : Some heroes are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Unknown Source: )

COURAGE : Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says 'I'll try again tomorrow'. (Mary A. Radmacher: U.S. author, artist, and professional speaker.)

COURAGE : 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)

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

COURAGE : The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

COURAGE : The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. (Mary Renault: English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece, 1905-1983)

COURAGE : The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. (Henrik Ibsen: Norwegian playwright and theatre director, 1828-1906)

COURAGE : There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. (Elie Wiesel: Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)

COURAGE : Things are strongest where they're broken. (Louise Penny: Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec, Born 1958)

COURAGE : To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that. (Saint Teresa of Avila: Spanish Carmelite nun and prominent mystic and religious reformer, 1515-1582)

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

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

COURAGE : Unless you have the courage to doubt, you will never come to know the truth. (Unknown Source: )

COURAGE : 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)

COURAGE : Vulnerability is not weakness, but our most accurate measure of courage. It is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965)

COURAGE : War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

COURAGE : We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

COURAGE : We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

COURAGE : We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want . . . to live our lives with authenticity. (Barbara De Angeles: U.S. TV personality, personal growth adviser, lecturer, and author, Born 1951)

COURAGE : When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. (Rosa Parks: U.S. activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott, 1913-2005)

COURAGE : 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)

COURAGE : You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him/her. (Unknown Source: )

COURAGE : You must do things you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

COURAGE : Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. (Unknown Source: )

COURTS : I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principle of the constitution. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

COURTS : There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. (Derek Bok: U.S. lawyer, educator, and former president of Harvard University, Born 1930)

COURTS : 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)

COWARDICE : A bully is always a coward. (English proverb: )

COWARDICE : Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

COWARDICE : Conscience does make cowards of us all. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

COWARDICE : First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - for I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - for I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out. (Martin Niemoller: German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, 1892-1984)

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

COWARDICE : The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. (George S. Patton Jr.: U.S. Army General who commanded the military in World War II, both in the Mediterranean and in France and Germany, 1885-1945)

COWARDICE : The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. (Wole Soyinka: Nigerian playwright, poet, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature — the first sub-Saharan to be honored in that category, Born 1934)

COWARDICE : There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

COWARDICE : To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. (Unknown Source: )

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

COWARDICE : To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

COWARDICE : What the devil needs is for good people to remain silent. (Unknown Source: )

COWARDICE : Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. (Doris Lessing: British-Zimbabwean novelist, 1919-2013)

CRAFTSMEN : A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. (Louis Nizer: U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994)

CRAZINESS : The question that sometimes drives me hazy: "Am I, or the others crazy?" (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CREATIVITY : A good imitation is the most perfect originality. (Unknown Source: )

CREATIVITY : A great flame follows a little spark. (Alighieri Dante: Italian poet of the Middle Ages, 1265-1321)

CREATIVITY : 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)

CREATIVITY : All except the shallowest living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. (Unknown Source: )

CREATIVITY : Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna Freud: Austrian-British psychoanalyst, 1895-1982)

CREATIVITY : Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking. (Eckhart Tolle: German-born resident of Canada, an influential spiritual writer, Born 1948)

CREATIVITY : Creativity is the residue of wasted time. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CREATIVITY : Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

CREATIVITY : Discipline and creativity are like yin and yang. Both are entirely different and yet without each other, they are nothing. (Unknown Source: )

CREATIVITY : I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free. (Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, 1475-1564)

CREATIVITY : Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

CREATIVITY : If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. (Juan R. Jimenez: Spanish poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1881-1958)

CREATIVITY : Intuition and creativity are informed by practice and diligence. (David Kelley: U.S. designer, engineer, professor, and founder of the design firm, Ideo, Born 1951)

CREATIVITY : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

CREATIVITY : 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)

CREATIVITY : Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. (Madeleine L'Engle: U.S. writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, 1918-2007)

CREATIVITY : People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. (Rob Siltanen: U.S. leading creative marketer responsible for some of the most effective and iconic advertising campaigns)

CREATIVITY : The creative act the— defeat of habit by originality—overcomes everything (George Lois: Greek-American art director, designer, and author, Born 1931)

CREATIVITY : The future is uncertain. But such uncertainty lies at the very heart of human creativity. (Ilya Prigogine: Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate, 1917-2003)

CREATIVITY : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch—free from the past or un-indebted to others—could not conceivably be more wrong. (Unknown Source: )

CREATIVITY : The world is only what you shape it to be. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

CREATIVITY : To venture is to cause anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

CREATIVITY : We have no money, so we will have to think. (Unknown Source: )

CREATIVITY : You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

CRIME : Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

CRIME : Crime starts here: HOME. (Unknown Source: )

CRIME : Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

CRIME : Fear succeeds crime—it is its punishment. (Unknown Source: )

CRIME : It is better to prevent crimes than it is to punish them. (Cesare Beccaria: Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist and politician, who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, 1738-1794)

CRIME : It is criminal to steal . . . but the blame diminishes as the guilt increases. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)

CRIME : Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. (Unknown Source: )

CRIME : My object is . . . To let the punishment fit the crime. (W. S. Gilbert: English dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator, 1836-1911)

CRIME : No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. (Eric Sevareid: U.S. author and CBS news journalist, 1912-1992)

CRIME : Only the stupid steal from the rich. The clever steal from the poor. The law usually protects the rich. (Carsten Jensen: Danish author and political columnist., Born 1952)

CRIME : The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881)

CRIME : The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

CRIME : Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it. (French Proverb: )

CRIMINALITY : Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. (Victtori Alfieri: Italian dramatist and poet, considered the 'founder of Italian tragedy,' 1740-1803)

CRISIS : In Chinese, the word for crisis is weiji, composed of the character wei, which means danger, and ji, which means opportunity. (Jan Wong: Canadian academic, journalist, and writer, Born 1952)

CRISIS : Insecurity and crisis are our default — states of our being. Carlos A. Sanchez, U.S. writer and professor of Philosophy. (Carlos A. Sanchez: U.S. Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University)

CRISIS : 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)

CRISIS : The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

CRISIS : When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

CRITICAL THINKING : Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see. (Edgar A. Poe: U.S. writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, 1809-1849)

CRITICAL THINKING : judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. (Voltaire: )

CRITICISM : Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

CRITICISM : Call my bluff or take my guff. (Unknown Source: )

CRITICISM : Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something. (Michael Lopp: U.S. software engineering manager, and webcomic author. Born 1970)

CRITICISM : Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. (American Indian Proverb: )

CRITICISM : Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CRITICISM : He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

CRITICISM : He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of man. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

CRITICISM : I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

CRITICISM : If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine. (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

CRITICISM : If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. (Unknown Source: )

CRITICISM : Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others (H. Jackson Brown: U.S. author who was best known for his inspirational book, 'Life's Little Instruction Book', which was a New York Times Best Seller, 1940-2021)

CRITICISM : Nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891)

CRITICISM : People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. (Unknown Source: )

CRITICISM : Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself. (Marion Z. Bradley: U.S. author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, 1930-1999)

CRITICISM : The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. (Wole Soyinka: Nigerian playwright, poet, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature — the first sub-Saharan to be honored in that category, Born 1934)

CRITICISM : The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. (Ben Sira: Jewish scribe of Jerusalem whose collection of ethical teachings is found in Ecclesiasticus, written in c. 200—175 B.C.E.)

CRITICISM : The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. (Norman V. Peale: U.S. minister and author known for his work in popularizing the concept of positive thinking, 1898-1993)

CRITICISM : The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

CRITICISM : They who dance are thought to be insane by those who hear not the music. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

CRITICISM : Those who put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

CRITICISM : To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. (Fred A. Shero: Canadian ice hockey player and head coach, known for his team's winning two Stanley cups, 1925-1990)

CRITICISM : To escape criticism—do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

CRITICISM : When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever. (Unknown Source: )

CRITICISM : Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. (Pierre Beaumarchais: French diplomat and polymath, 1732-1799)

CRITICS : A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature (Louis Dudek: Canadian poet, teacher, publisher, essayist, translator, and editor, l1918-2001)

CRITICS : A critic is a legless man who teaches running. (Channing Pollock: U.S. magician and film actor, 1926-2006)

CRITICS : A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. (Kenneth Tynan: English theater critic and writer, 1927-1980)

CRITICS : A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

CRITICS : Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs. (Bert Sugar: U.S. boxing writer and sports historian, 1936-2012)

CRITICS : Children have more need of models than of critics. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

CRITICS : Critics are our friends. They show us our faults. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

CRITICS : I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say. (Friedrich Waisman: Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher who is best known as one of the key theorists in logical positivism, 1896-1959)

CRITICS : If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965)

CRITICS : People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. (Unknown Source: )

CRITICS : rking writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. (Christopher Hampton: British playwright, screenwriter, translator, and film director, Born 1946)

CRITICS : When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

CRITIQUES : A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983)

CRITIQUES : The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought." (Edith Hamilton: U.S. educator and internationally known author of her best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, 1867-1963)

CROWDS : We haven't yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses. (Lewis Thomas: U.S. physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher, 1913-1993)

CRUELTY : A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

CRUELTY : All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. (Tennessee Williams: U.S. playwright and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 1911-1983)

CRUELTY : All cruelty springs from weakness. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

CRUELTY : Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

CRUELTY : It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

CRUELTY : Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

CRUELTY : Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

CRUELTY : On the outer limits of cruelty humanity begins. (Unknown Source: )

CRYING : Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

CULPABILITY : is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CULTS : A cult is a religion with no political power. (Tom K. Wolfe Jr.: U.S. author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, 1930-2018)

CULTURE : A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. (Marcus Garvey: Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator, 1887-1940)

CULTURE : Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

CULTURE : 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.)

CULTURE : Sin is geographical. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

CULTURE : We are all born originals; why is it so many of us die copies? (Edward Young: English poet, critic, and theologian, 1683-1765)

CULTURE : 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)

CULTURES : England and America are two countries separated by the same language. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

CULTURES : I see too plainly custom forms us all. Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth. (Aaron Hill: British writer, 1685-1750)

CULTURES : It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples . . . and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)

CULTURES : Reading print is one form of literacy, but there are many types of literacy. Some indigenous groups such as native Americans can read the clouds, or Pacific Islanders are said to be able to read the waves and swells of the ocean. (Nikki Giovanni: U.S. poet, writer, activist, and educator, Born 1943)

CULTURES : The more I travel, the more I realize that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)

CULTURES : The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are equally unique manifestations of the human spirit. (Unknown Source: )

CULTURES : When languages, cultures, and peoples collide, the categories that label and classify us into separateness begin to soften. (Pallavi Aiyar: Indian journalist and award-winning foreign correspondent)

CURE : An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

CURES : The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. (Karen Blixen: Danish author, 1885-1962)

CURIOSITY : A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

CURIOSITY : A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Charles J. Darling: English lawyer, judge, and politician, 1849-1936)

CURIOSITY : Be curious, not judgmental. (Unknown Source: )

CURIOSITY : Curiosity is a lust of the mind. (Thomas Hobbes: English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy, 1588-1679)

CURIOSITY : Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. (: )

CURIOSITY : Curiosity is a willing, proud, and eager confession of ignorance. (Leonard S. Rubenstein: U.S. lawyer and professor, 1922-2013)

CURIOSITY : Curiosity is the one thing invincible in nature. (Freya Stark: Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer who was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert, 1893-1993)

CURIOSITY : Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. (Unknown Source: )

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

CURIOSITY : Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. (Christian Boyee: U.S. writer, 1820-1904)

CURIOSITY : He who has a 'why' to live for can bear almost any 'how'. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

CURIOSITY : I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CURIOSITY : I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

CURIOSITY : Indian engineer, innovator, and education reformist, Born 1965 (Sonam Wangchuk: Indian engineer, innovator, and education reformist, Born 1965)

CURIOSITY : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

CURIOSITY : Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

CURIOSITY : Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one wo asked why. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)

CURIOSITY : Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery in which we were born. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

CURIOSITY : Not all journeys are on roads. (Unknown Source: )

CURIOSITY : One definition of success might be: refining our appetites, while deepening our hunger. (Yahia Lababidi: Egyptian-American poet, aphorist, and essayist, Born 1973)

CURIOSITY : One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. (Henry Miller: U.S. novelist, 1891-1980)

CURIOSITY : Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

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

CURIOSITY : Samuel Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

CURIOSITY : Some men see things as they are and say, 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?' (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

CURIOSITY : The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

CURIOSITY : The fool wonders, the wise man asks. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

CURIOSITY : Those who have a why or what to live for can bear almost any how. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

CURIOSITY : To be wise is to be eternally curious. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926)

CURIOSITY : What we see depends mainly on what we look for. (John Lubbock: English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist, and polymath who coined the terms 'Paleolithic' and 'Neolithic' to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively, 1834-1913)

CURIOSITY : William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

CURIOSITY : 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)

CURIOSITY : You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

CUSTOM : The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

CUSTOM : When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered. (Unknown Source: )

CUSTOMER SERVICE : We never thought of it as customer service. We just treat people how we would want to be treated. (Sally Strebel: U.S. professional manager)

CUSTOMS : Custom reconciles us to everything. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

CUSTOMS : Custom, that unwritten law, by which the people keep even kings in awe. (Charles Davenport: U.S. prominent eugenicist and biologist, 1866-1944)

CUSTOMS : I see too plainly custom forms us all. Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth. (Aaron Hill: British writer, 1685-1750)

CUSTOMS : Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

CUSTOMS : Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

CUSTOMS : The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

CUSTOMS : The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. (Fred Astaire: U.S. dancer, singer, actor, musician, choreographer, and presenter, 1899-1987)

CUSTOMS : What once were vices are now manners. (Unknown Source: )

CUSTOMS : Words are like money; it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

CYCLES : All the world’s a stage. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

CYNICISM : A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)