Chartier, Emile

• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Chase, Alexander

• To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Chase, Harold C.

• The wise person possesses humility. He knows that his small island of knowledge is surrounded by a vast sea of the unknown.

Chase, Mary Ellen

• Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind. (New York Times)

Chased-By-Bears

• When a man does a piece of work which is admired by all we say that it is wonderful; but when we see the changes of day and night, the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky, and the changing seasons upon the earth, with their ripening fruits, anyone must realize that it is the work of someone more powerful than man. (Santee-Yanktonai Sioux Nature)

Chavez, Cesar

• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who as learned to read, humiliate the person who feels pride, and you cannot oppress people who are not afraid anymore.

Chbosky, Stephen

• We accept the love we think we deserve. (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Chekhov, Anton

• Any idiot can handle a crisis--it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

• My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom.

Cher

• I can trust my friends... These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

• If grass can grow through cement, love can find you anywhere.

• If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Chesnutt, Charles W.

• There's time enough, but none to spare.

• Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Chester, Henry

• Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

• Faith and initiative rightly combined remove mountainous barriers and achieve the unheard and miraculous. An enthusiastic attitude is nothing more than faith in action.

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of)

• Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose despondency and laziness make them give it up as unattainable.

• Few people do business well who do nothing else.

• I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

• If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

• Know the true value of time! Snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no procrastination. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

• The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

• There is enough time for everything in the course of a day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time. (Letters to His Son, April 14, 1747)

• There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody know some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

• We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

• Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

• The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. (Autobiography)

• Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

• The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

• Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

• Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

• The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ("Dramatic Unities", Fancies versus Fads)

• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

• I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

• If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

• An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.

• It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

• Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

• Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

• The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

• The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

• To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. ("The Paradise of Thieves" The Wisdom of Father Brown)

• Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. (All Things Considered)

• The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chevez, Linda

• Success is creating something original and lasting--whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influences others, or a happy and productive family.

Chiang, May-lin Soong (Madame Chaing Kai-Shek)

• We become what we do.

Chief Seattle

• This we know, all things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Child, Julia

• Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

Child, Lydia M.

• But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences sooner or later.

• Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. (Letters from New York v. 1)

• I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

• You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Chilon

• When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

Chittenden, Meg

• Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

Chittister, Joan

• Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

• Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.

• It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.

Cholmondeley, Mary

• Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime "let out all the length of all the reins."

Chomsky, Noam

• We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Chopin, Kate

• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining. (The Awakening)

Christie, Agatha

• Achievement brings its own anticlimax. (They Came to Bagdad)

• Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. (The Pale Horse)

• The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly begin to think for itself and such thinking, remember is original thinking and may have valuable results. (The Moving Finger)

• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

• It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

• One does what one can, not what one cannot.

• Too much mercy ... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. (The Halloween Party)

• Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Christie, David

• A large part of the problem in the world today is that the people who start wars do not fight in them. If they did, we would have fewer wars. ("An Effective Response to Terrorism")

Christina, Queen of Sweden

• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christiansen, James L.

• The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but ot produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

• Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

Churchill, Winston (Sir)

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

• I like things to happen; and if they don't happen, I like to make them happen.

• It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled. (in Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran)

• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

• Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

• Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small--never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

• The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

• The price of greatness is responsibility.

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

• Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

• This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

• You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken--unspeakable!--fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse--a little tiny mouse!--of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Ciardi, John

• Patience is the art of caring slowly.

• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

Cicero

• Ability without honor is useless.

• Advice is judged by results, not by intention.

• Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old,
  and an old man in whom there is something of the young.
  Guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.

• A room without books is like a body without a soul.

• A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

• Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

• Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goes out. The task of an educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

• What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

• What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Cioran, E. M.

• Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. (Anathemas and Admirations)

Cisneros, Sandra

• I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Clafford, Patricia

• Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy ... near and far. Christmas is sharing. ("Christmas")

• Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking.

Clancy, Tom

• Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

• Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Clark, Frank A.

• A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

• We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't.

• Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

Clark, Guy

• There's only two things that money can't buy, and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes.

Clark, James Freeman

• It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today. (in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book)

Clark, Karen Kaiser

• Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Mary Higgins

• A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Clark, Melanie

• You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all it accessories.

Clark, Murial

• Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

• You got to sing like you don't need the money
  Love like you'll never get hurt
  You got to dance like nobody's watchin'
  It's gotta come from the heart
  If you want it to work.

Clarke, Arthur C.

• I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

• The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

• People go through four stages before any revolutionary development:
  1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time.
  2. It's interesting, but not important.
  3. I always said it was a good idea.
  4. I thought of it first.

• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Time Magazine 2/15/71)

Clarke, Jean Illsley

• What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way. (Self-Esteem: A Family Affair)

Clarke, Jean Illsley and Connie Dawson

• Every experience of accepting love strengthens the muscles of the personality. (Growing Up Again)

Clarke, William Newton

• Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.

Clarkson, Lida

• Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet. ("Brush Studies" Ladies' Home Journal, 1884)

Clay, Henry

• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

Cleaver, [Leroy] Eldridge

• Too much agreement kills a chat. ("A Day in Folsom Prison" Soul on Ice)

• You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Clemenceau, Georges

• A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.

Clement, Mark A.

• Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

Clemmer, Jim

• There are ... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo--if I'm not growing--then I'm falling behind. (Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success)

• We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness. (Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success)

Clifton, Donald O., see Buckingham, Marcus

Clifton, Lucille

• The end of a thing,
  is never the end,
  something is always being born like
  a year of a baby. ("December" Everett Anderson's Year)

Clinton, Bill

• Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people. (Inauguration speech, 20 Jan 1993)

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

• But we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation. A liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves. To be educated to freedom must be evidenced in action...

• The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

• Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Cloud, Glenda

• Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

Clowse, Barbara Barksdale

• Like gaining confidence, finding one's courage is gradual rather than all at once.

Coats, Carolyn

• Children have more need of models than of critics.

Cobden, Richard

• Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Cochrane, Peter

• Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Cocks, Barnett (Sir)

• A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. (in New Scientist, 1973)

Codell, Esme Raji

• A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

Coey, Nancy

• When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.

Coffin, Willian Sloane

• It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure.

Cohen, Alan

• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Cohen, Ben and Jerry Greenfield

• Our country--the last remaining superpower on earth--needs to learn to measure its strength not by the number of people it can kill but by the number of people it can feed, clothe, house, and care for. (Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip: Lead With Your Values and Make Money, Too)

Cohen, Betsy

• One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

Cohen, Herb

• You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Cohen, Leonard

• Ring the bells that still can ring,
  Forget your perfect offering.
  There's a hole in everything,
  That's how the light comes thru. ("Ring the Bells That Still Can Ring")

Colby, Frank Moore

• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

• Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

• Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

• The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Colet, Louise

• Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

Colette, Gabrielle Colette

• It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round.

• There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

• What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!

Collie, G. Norman

• Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

Collier, Jeremy

• Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.

Collier, Robert

• As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

• Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

• The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building--steadily building.

• You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Collings, Bob

• When people are highly motivated, it's easy to accomplish the impossible. And when they're not, it's impossible to accomplish the easy.

Collins, Churton

• To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Collins, Frederick L.

• There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."

Collins, James Churton

• Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Collins, Marva

• Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. ("Marva Collins: Teaching Success in the City" Message)

Collins, Nancy

• My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.

Colorose, Barbara

• The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

• If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

• If you can't solve it, it's not a problem--it's reality.

• We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

• Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

• The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

• If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

• Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. (Lacon)

• The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. (Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words)

• The present time has one advantage over every other--it is our own. (Lacon)

• There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Communication Briefings

• The mind is like a TV set--when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

Conant, James B.

• Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Confucius

• Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along. (The Analects)

• The diamond cannot be polished without friction, not man perfected without trials.

• The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

• For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

• If you choose a job that you like you will never have to work a day in your life.

• Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

• Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

• Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

• Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

• To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Congreve, William

• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Conklin, Robert

• It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.

Connolly, Charles

• Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?

Connolly, Cyril

• The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

• The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back. (The Unquiet Grave)

• While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. (The Unquiet Grave)

Conrad, Jesse

• Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.

Conrad, Joseph

• [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear ... which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

• It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune--the ally of patient Time--that holds an even and scrupulous balance. (Lord Jim)

• My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. That--and no more, and it is everything. (Nigger of the Narcissus)

Converse, Kimberly

• You are never so strong as when you forgive.

Conway, Diane

• If you try to guard yourself against every unlikely danger, you'll never stretch beyond your comfort zone. Don't let the 'what-ifs' run your life. Follow your dreams and have at it. (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?)

• It doesn't matter if we think we're fearless or if we do things while quaking. The important thing is to be true to our own dreams and live authentic lives. (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?)

• It's been said that there are two days over which we have no control: yesterday, because it's a cancelled check, and tomorrow, because it's a promissory note. (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?)

• We don't have to wait for fear to vanish altogether because that moment will never come; all we need is a moment of daring that can change a whole lifetime of waiting. (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?)

Conwell, Russell H.

• Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

Cook, Alistar

• Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Cook, Barbara

• If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Cook, James R.

• Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Cook, Mary Lou

• Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Cooke, Alistair

• A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Coolidge, Calvin

• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

• If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.

Cooper, David

• Perhaps the most central characteristic of authentic leadership is the relinquishing of the impulse to dominate others. (Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry)

Cooper, Robert

• The way I see it, there are two kinds of dreams.
  One is a dream that's always going to be just that...
  A dream.
  A vision that you can never really hold in your hand.
  Then there's a dream that's more than a dream its like....
  A map.
  A map that you live by and follow for the rest of your days
  Knowing that someday your going to stand on top of that
  Mountain holding everything you thought of
  Right
  There
  In
  Your
  Hand!

Cooper, Vernon

• These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Copperfield, David

• I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.

Corneille, Pierre

• The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Cornwall, Judson

• God within us is communicating with God above us, and we know that this communication is pure and powerful. (Praying the Scriptures)

Cosby, Bill

• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.

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

• A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.

Cossman, E. Joseph

• The greatest power is often simple patience.

• Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Costner, Kevin

• Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

Cotton, John (Jr.)

• Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

Coudert, Jo

• The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

Coue, Emile

• When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Cousins, Margaret

• Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Cousins, Norman

• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

• A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

• [In sickness] your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

• A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life. (American Library Association Bulletin 10/1954)

• Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Cousins, Park

• How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

Cousteau, Jacques

• Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where. (interview, CNN, 2/24/89)

Covey, Stephen R.

• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

• Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. (Seven Habits of Highly Effective People)

• Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

• We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

• Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

• While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Cowan, Thomas

• The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.

Coward, Noel

• It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

• Work is much more fun than fun.

Cowley, Abraham

• Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Cowper, William

• Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
  Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Coyle, David Cushman

• Democracy needs more free speech, for even the speech of foolish people is valuable if it serves to guarantee the right of the wise to talk.

Craig, Jenny

• It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

• Autumn to winter, winter to spring,
  Spring into summer, summer into fall--
  So rolls the changing year, and so we change;
  Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

Crane, Frank

• Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

• You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Crane, George

• Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure...make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

Crick, Francis Harry Compton

• It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place. (What Mad Pursuit)

Crockett, Davy

• I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right--then go ahead.

Cromwell, Oliver

• Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cronkite, Walter

• I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

• There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. ("What Does Walter Cronkite Really Think" by Fallaci Look)

Crook, James

• The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Crosby, Bing

• Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white".

Crossan, John Dominic, see Borg, Marcus

Crouch, Mark A.

• Is it any coincidence then that the most incredibly successful people have the most confident and positive attitudes? Many people think that positive attitude is a by-product of having achieved wealth and success. In my experience I have found that this attitude was more often the reason for and not the result of success. (Bouncing Off Paper Walls)

• Responsibility is the most powerful internal motivator for problem solving. When you remove it, all that remains is the lesser drive of self-preservation. If necessity is the mother of invention then responsibility is its father. (Bouncing Off Paper Walls)

Crowe, John H.

• An elephant can be tethered by a thread--if he believes he is captive. If we believe we are chained by habit or anxiety, we are in bondage.

Crowe, Russell

• You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, well, the suburbs of anywhere. You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible. Thanks very much. (his Oscar acceptance speech, 2001)

Crowell, Grace Noll

• Whatever else be lost among the years,
  Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing:
  Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,
  Let us hold close one day, remembering
  Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men.
  Let us get back our childlike faith again.

Cruger, Johann

• Now thank we all our God,
  With hearts and hands and voices,
  Who wondrous things hath done,
  In whom his world rejoices.. (Nun danket alle Gott tr. by Winkworth)

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

• Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.

cummings, e.e.

• It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

• To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

• Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Cunningham, Ed

• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Curcio, Joan L.

• Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

• Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Curie, Marie

• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

• I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science ... it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

• I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

• Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

• You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Curran, Dorothy

• Healthy families are our greatest national resource. (Traits of a Healthy Family)

Currier, Alan Alexsi

• Jesus took the command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and pushed the definition of who is our neighbor, out, out, and still further out, until it reached to the ends of the earth and included all of humanity-all of God's children.

Currier, Isabel

• It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.

Curtis, Cyrus

• There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Curtis, Donald

• Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

• We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Curtis, George W.

• Imagination is as good as many voyages--and how much cheaper.

Curtis, Jamie Lee

• There is a point where you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. It doesn't happen for everyone--but it did for Mom and me.

Curtis, William

• Our greatest power is the power of choice; our greatest freedom lies in the exercise of our power of choice.

Custer, Dan

• Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.