John
Calvin
There cannot be a surer rule,
nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it,
than when we are taught that all the endowments
which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us
for the very purpose of being distributed
for the good of our neighbour.
~John Calvin~
Arthur
Calwell
It is better to be defeated on principle
than to win on lies.
~Arthur Calwell~
Julia
Cameron
When we are angry or
depressed in our creativity,
we have misplaced our power.
We have allowed someone else
to determine our worth,
and then we are angry
at being undervalued.
~Julia Cameron~
Joseph
Campbell
We must be willing to get rid of
the life we've planned,
so as to have the life
that is waiting for us.
~Joseph Campbell~
When you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would
not have thought there would be doors;
and where there wouldn't be a door
for anyone else.
~Joseph Campbell~
A dream is your creative vision
for your life in the future.
A goal is what specifically you
intend to make happen.
Dreams and goals should be
just out of your present reach
but not out of sight.
Dreams and goals are
coming attractions in your life.
~Joseph Campbell~
When you make a sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
~Joseph Campbell~
Thomas
Campbell
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.
~Thomas Campbell~
Albert
Camus
Autumn
is a second spring
when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus~
In
the depth of winter
I finally learned that there was in me
an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus~
Integrity has no need of rules.
~Albert Camus~
A free press can of course
be good or bad, but, most certainly,
without freedom it will never be anything
but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else
but a chance to get better,
whereas enslavement is
a certainty of the worse.
~Albert Camus~
Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes
without having asked any clear question.
~Albert Camus~
CAP
Productions
Honoring Veterans
Does Not
Translate into Honoring War.
~CAP Productions~
Truman
Capote
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing
is not what it's about,
but the inner music the words make.
~Truman Capote~
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.
That's why there are so few good conversations:
due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
~Truman Capote~
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
~Truman Capote~
Charles
Capps
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe...
Words are containers.
They contain faith, or fear,
and they produce after their kind.
~Charles Capps~
Sandra
Carey
Never
mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living;
the other helps you make a life.
~Sandra Carey~
Thomas
Carlyle
A man with a half volition
goes backwards and forwards,
and makes no way on the smoothest road;
a man with a whole volition
advances on the roughest,
and will reach his purpose,
if there be even a little worthiness in it.
The man without a purpose is like
a ship without a rudder -- a waif, a nothing, a no man.
Have a purpose in life and having it,
throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work
as God has given you.
~Thomas Carlyle~
Andrew
Carnegie
As I grow older,
I pay less attention
to what men say.
I just watch what they do.
~Andrew Carnegie~
Dale
Carnegie
The
successful man will
profit from his mistakes
and try again
in a different way.
~Dale Carnegie~
You
can make more friends in two months
by becoming really interested in other people
than you can in two years
by trying to get other people
interested in you.
~Dale Carnegie~
One
of the most tragic things I know
about human nature is that all of us tend
to put off living. We are all dreaming
of some magical rose garden
over the horizon -- instead of
enjoying the roses that are blooming
outside our windows today.
~Dale Carnegie~
Flaming
enthusiasm backed by horse sense
and persistence, is the quality that most frequently
makes for success.
~Dale Carnegie~
I deal with the obvious.
I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious --
because the obvious
is what people need to be told.
~Dale Carnegie~
When
we hate our enemies,
we are giving them power over us:
power over our sleep,
our appetites, our blood pressure,
our health and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy
if only they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our days and nights
into a hellish turmoil.
~Dale Carnegie~
The
ideas I stand for are not mine.
I borrowed them from Socrates.
I swiped them from Chesterfield.
I stole them from Jesus.
And I put them in a book.
If you don't like their rules
whose would you use?
~Dale Carnegie~
Don't be afraid to give your best
to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one
it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well,
the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
~Dale Carnegie~
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon
who you are or what you have;
it depends solely on what you think.
~Dale Carnegie~
David
Carradine
If you cannot be a poet,
be the poem.
~David Carradine~
Jimmy
Carter
One of the most basic principles
for making and keeping peace
within and between nations. . .
is that in political, military, moral,
and spiritual confrontations,
there should be an honest attempt
at the reconciliation of differences
before resorting to combat.
~Jimmy Carter~
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
~Jimmy Carter~
Rosalynn
Carter
You must accept
that you might fail;
then, if you do your best
and still don't win,
at least you can be satisfied
that you've tried.
If you don't accept failure
as a possibility,
you don't set high goals,
and you don't branch out,
you don't try --
you don't take the risk.
~Rosalynn Carter~
You have to have confidence in your ability,
and then be tough enough to follow through.
~Rosalynn Smith Carter~
George
Washington Carver
I
love to think of nature
as an unlimited broadcasting station
through which God speaks to us every hour,
if we will only tune in.
~George Washington Carver~
How far you go in life depends
on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life
you will have been all of these.
~George Washington Carver~
Lewis
Cass
People may doubt what you say,
but they will believe what you do.
~Lewis Cass~
Nicolas de
Chamfort
Contemplation often
makes life miserable.
We should act more,
think less, and stop
watching ourselves live.
~Nicolas de Chamfort~
William Ellery
Channing
Great minds are to make others great.
Their superiority is to be used,
not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage,
not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny,
but to rouse them from lethargy,
and to aid them to judge for themselves.
~William Ellery Channing~
It is chiefly through books
that we enjoy the communion with superior minds...
In the best books, authors talk to us,
give us their most precious thoughts,
and pour their souls into ours.
God be thanked for books.
~William Ellery Channing~
John Jay
Chapman
Inspired teachers ... cannot be
ordered by the gross from the factory.
They must be discovered one by one,
and brought home from the woods and swamps
like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory,
not in a carpenter shop;
and they must be honored and trusted.
~John Jay Chapman~
Seems like I've been here before,
can't remember when I get this funny feeling,
we'll be together again;
No straight lines make up my life,
all my roads have bends;
No clearcut beginnings;
so far, no dead ends.
~Tom Chapin~
J.
M. Charlier
The
cowards think of what they can lose,
the heroes of what they can win.
~J. M. Charlier~
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.
~Chased-by-Bears~
John
Cheever
For me, a page of good prose
is where one hears the rain
and the noise of battle.
~John Cheever~
Homesickness is. . .
absolutely nothing.
Fifty percent of the people
in the world are homesick all the time. . .
You don't really long for another country.
You long for something in yourself
that you don't have,
or haven't been able to find.
~John Cheever~
The deep joy we take in
the company of people with whom
we have just recently fallen in love
is undisguisable.
~John Cheever~
Anton
Chekhov
Don't
tell me the moon is shining;
show me the glint of light on broken glass.
~Anton Chekhov~
Cher
I can trust my friends...
These people force me to examine myself,
encourage me to grow.
~Cher~
Henry
Cheste
An enthusiastic attitude
is nothing more than faith in action.
~Henry Chester~
Faith and initiative rightly combined
remove mountainous barriers and achieve
the unheard and miraculous.
An enthusiastic attitude
is nothing more than faith in action.
~Henry Chester~
Lord
Chesterfield
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.
~Lord Chesterfield~
Know
the true value of time;
snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination;
never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
~Lord Chesterfield~
Gilbert
K. Chesterton
A
good novel tells us
the truth about its hero;
but a bad novel
tells us the truth about its author.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
You
say grace before meals.
All right. But I say grace before
the concert and the opera,
and grace before the play and pantomime,
and grace before I open a book,
and grace before sketching,
painting, swimming, fencing, boxing,
walking, playing, dancing and grace
before I dip the pen in the ink.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
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.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
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.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
There
is a road from the eye
to the heart that does not
go through the intellect.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
The
way to love anything
is to realize that it might be lost.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
There
is a great deal of difference between
an eager man who wants to read a book
and a tired man who wants a book to read.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
If
seeds in the black earth
can turn into such beautiful roses,
what might not the heart of man become
in its long journey toward the stars?
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
Courage
is almost
a contradiction in terms.
It means a strong desire to live
taking the form of readiness to die.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
It has been found difficult and left untried.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
Doc
Childre
Our true identity is to love
without fear and insecurity.
Our higher potential finds us
when we set our course
in that direction.
The power of love and compassion
transforms insecurity.
~Doc Childre~
Care is the actualization of
love assumed.
~Doc Childre~
Frederick
Chiluba
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . .
is that freedom is at the core
of every successful nation in the world.
~Frederick Chiluba~
I
Ching
When clouds form in the skies
we know that rain will follow
but we must not wait for it.
Nothing will be achieved
by attempting to interfere
with the future before
the time is ripe.
Patience is needed.
~I Ching~
Tao Le
Ching
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
~Tao Le Ching~
Deepak K.
Chopra
To make the right choices in life,
you have to get in touch with your soul.
To do this, you need to experience solitude,
which most people are afraid of,
because in the silence
you hear the truth
and know the solutions.
~Deepak K. Chopra~
Agatha
Christie
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.
~Agatha Christie~
An
archeologist is the best husband
any woman can have:
the older she gets,
the more interested he is in her.
~Agatha Christie~
The
best time for planning a book
is while you're doing the dishes.
~Agatha Christie~
One is left with the horrible feeling now
that war settles nothing;
that to win a war is as disastrous
as to lose one.
~Agatha Christie~
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser
Churchill
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.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
We
shall draw from the heart
of suffering itself the means
of inspiration and survival.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
Attitude
is a little thing
that makes a big difference.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
You
have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up
for something,
sometime in your life.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
Courage
is what it takes
to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes
to sit down and listen.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
I
am always ready to learn
although I do not
always like being taught.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
I like things to happen;
and if they don't happen,
I like to make them happen.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure
without losing your enthusiasm.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
The greatest lesson in life
is to know that even fools
are right sometimes.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
The price of greatness is responsibility.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
To build may have to be the slow
and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act
of a single day.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
We are all worms,
but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
We make a living by what we get
but we make a life by what we give.
~Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill~
Marcus
Tullius Cicero
No
man can be brave
who thinks pain the greatest evil;
nor temperate, who considers
pleasure the highest god.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
No
sane man will dance.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
If
we are not ashamed to think it,
we should not be ashamed to say it.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
To
be ignorant of what occurred
before you were born is to
remain always a child.
For what is the worth of human life,
unless it is woven into the life
of our ancestors
by the records of history?
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
A
room without books
is like a body without a soul.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
A
gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor a man perfected without trials.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
Gratitude
is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all the others.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
Natural
ability without education
has more often attained to glory
and virtue than education
without natural ability.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
What
nobler employment,
or more valuable to the state,
than that of the man
who instructs the rising generation?
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
If
you have a garden and a library,
you have everything you need.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
As
the old proverb says
"Like readily consorts with like."
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship,
who takes away from it respect.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
In men of the highest character and noblest genius
there is to be found an insatiable desire for
honour, command, power, and glory.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
Where
is there dignity
unless there is honesty?
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
Friendship makes prosperity more shining
and lessens adversity by dividing
and sharing it.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
The man who backbites an absent friend,
nay, who does not stand up for him when another
blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter
and for the repute of a wit, who can invent
what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -
that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
To be content with what one has
is the greatest and truest of riches.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
By doubting we come at truth.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
To be ignorant of what happened
before you were born
is to be ever a child.
For what is man's lifetime
unless the memory of past events
is woven with those of earlier times?
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
Frank A.
Clark
We find comfort among those who agree with
us --
growth among those who don't.
~Frank A. Clark~
Persons thankful for little things
are certain to be the ones
with much to be thankful for.
~Frank Clark~
Gossip needn't be false to be evil
--
there's a lot of truth
that shouldn't be passed around.
~Frank A. Clark~
Criticism, like rain,
should be gentle enough to
nourish a man's growth
without destroying his roots.
~Frank A. Clark~
Karen Kaiser
Clark
Life is change.
Growth is optional.
Choose wisely.
~Karen Kaiser Clark~
Ramsey
Clark
A right is not what someone gives you;
it's what no one can take from you.
~Ramsey Clark~
Susanna Clark & Richard
Leigh
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.
~Susanna Clark & Richard Leigh~
Jim
Clemmer
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.
~Jim Clemmer~
We were meant to grow.
When we don't grow,
we seek diversions -- some harmless (if unproductive),
others destructive -- to fill the emptiness.
~Jim Clemmer~
Glenda
Cloud
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
~Glenda Cloud~
Herb
Cohen
You and I do not see things as they are.
We see things as we are.
~Herb Cohen~
Jerry
Coleman
Ozzie Smith just made a play
that I have never seen before.
And he's done it more times than anyone else.
~Jerry Coleman~ :-)
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
Advice is like snow --
the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~
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.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~
Colette
Sit down, and put down everything
that comes into your head
and then you're a writer.
But an author is one who can judge
his own stuff's worth,
without pity, and destroy most of it.
~Colette~
It is wise to apply
the oil of refined politeness
to the mechanisms of
friendship.
~Colette~
Robert
Collier
In every adversity there lies
the seed of an equivalent advantage.
In every defeat is a lesson showing you
how to win the victory next time.
~Robert Collier~
Barbara
Colorose
We
control fifty percent of a relationship.
We influence one hundred percent of it.
~Barbara Colorose~
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.
~Barbara Colorose~
Charles
Caleb Colton
True
contentment depends
not upon what we have;
a tub was large enough for Diogenes,
but a world was too little for Alexander.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
Examinations
are formidable
even to the best prepared,
for the greatest fool may ask more
than the wisest man can answer.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
True
friendship is like sound health,
the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
Men
will wrangle
for religion,
write for it,
fight for it,
die for it;
anything
but live for it.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
We
owe almost all of our knowledge
not to those who have agreed,
but to those who have differed.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
The
greatest friend of Truth is time,
her greatest enemy is Prejudice,
and her constant companion Humility.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
Early
rising not only gives us
more life in the same number of years,
but adds, likewise, to their number;
and not only enables us to enjoy
more of existence in the same time,
but increases also the measure.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
Friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
He that knows himself,
knows others;
and he that is ignorant of himself,
could not write a very profound lecture
on other men's heads.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
Nothing so completely baffles one
who is full of tricks and duplicity himself,
than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
War kills men,
and men deplore the loss;
but war also crushes
bad principles and tyrants,
and so saves societies.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
David
H. Comins
People
will accept your idea
much more readily
if you tell them Benjamin Franklin
said it first.
~David H. Comins~
Confucius
What
you do not want done to yourself,
do not do to others.
~Confucius~
When
anger rises,
think of the consequences.
~Confucius~
They
must often change,
who would be constant
in happiness or wisdom.
~Confucius~
The
diamond cannot be polished without friction,
not man perfected without trials.
~Confucius~
The determined scholar and the man of virtue
will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue.
They will even sacrifice their lives
to preserve their virtue complete.
~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 you stand, see these principles in front of you;
in your carriage see them on the yoke.
Then you may be sure to get along.
~Confucius~
To be wronged is nothing
unless you continue to remember it.
~Confucius~
The man who in view of gain
thinks of righteousness;
who in the view of danger
is prepared to give up his life;
and who does not forget an old agreement
however far back it extends
- such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
~Confucius~
To be able to practice five things
everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...
gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
~Confucius~
Everything
has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
~Confucius~
A superior man is modest in his speech,
but exceeds in his actions.
~Confucius~
A youth is to be regarded with respect.
How do you know that his future
will not be equal to our present?
~Confucius~
Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising every time we fail.
~Confucius~
The essence of knowledge is,
having it, to apply it;
not having it, to confess your ignorance.
~Confucius~
Lesley
Conger
The
best of my education
has come from the public library...
my tuition fee is a bus fare
and once in a while,
five cents a day for an overdue book.
You don't need to know very much
to start with, if you know the way
to the public library.
~Lesley Conger~
Robert
Conklin
It's not the situation ...
It's your reaction to the situation.
~Robert Conklin~
Cyril
Connolly
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.
~Cyril Connolly~
Constanze
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!
~Constanze~
Calvin
Coolidge
No
person was ever honored
for what he received.
Honor has been the reward
for what he gave.
~Calvin Coolidge~
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.
~Calvin Coolidge~
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.
~Calvin Coolidge~
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.
~Calvin Coolidge~
Aaron
Copland
Inspiration may be a form
of superconsciousness,
or perhaps of subsconciousness --
I wouldn't know.
But I am sure it is the antithesis
of self-consciousness.
~Aaron Copland~
David Copperfield
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.
~David Copperfield~
Pierre Corneille
Love is the extra effort we make
in our dealings with those whom we do not like
and once you understand that,
you understand all.
This idea that love overtakes you
is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex.
To love another you have to undertake
some fragment of their destiny.
~Pierre Corneille~
Norman
Cousins
Death
is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us
while we live.
~Norman Cousins~
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.
~Norman Cousins~
Laughter
is inner jogging.
~Norman Cousins.~
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.
~Norman Cousins~
Hope
is independent
of the apparatus of logic.
~Norman Cousins~
Parks
Cousins
How things look on the outside of us
depends on how things are on the inside of us.
~Parks Cousins~
Stephen
Covey
While
we are free to choose our actions,
we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
~Stephen Covey~
All
things are created twice.
There's a mental or first creation,
and a physical or second creation of all things.
You have to make sure that the blueprint,
the first creation, is really what you want,
that you've thought everything through.
Then you put it into bricks and mortar.
Each day you go to the construction shed
and pull out the blueprint to get
marching orders for the day.
You begin with the end in mind.
~Stephen Covey~
The most important ingredient we put
into any relationship is not what we say
or what we do, but what we are.
And if our words and our actions
come from superficial
human relations techniques
(the Personality Ethic)
rather than from our own inner core
(the Character Ethic),
others will sense that duplicity.
We simply won't be able to create
and sustain the foundation necessary for
effective interdependence.
~Stephen Covey~
Love
- the feeling -
is a fruit of love, the verb.
~Stephen Covey~
Our ultimate freedom
is the right and power
to decide how anybody
or anything outside ourselves
will affect us.
~Stephen Covey~
It
takes a great deal of character strength to
apologize quickly out of one's heart
rather than out of pity. A person must
possess himself and have a deep sense of security
in fundamental principles and values
in order to genuinely apologize.
~Stephen Covey~
We
are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
~Stephen Covey~
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.
~Stephen Covey~
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.
~Stephen Covey~
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.
~Stephen Covey~
Without involvement, there is no commitment.
Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.
No involvement, no commitment.
~Stephen Covey~
Richard
Cowper
Our thoughts are unseen hands
shaping the people we meet.
Whatever we truly think them to be,
that's what they'll become for us.
~Richard Cowper~
William Cowper
Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
~William Cowper~
Tom
Crabtree
....one - without any words -
can reach out to another person.
All it takes is a hug,
a shoulder to cry on,
a friendly touch,
a sympathetic nature -
and an ear that listens.
~Tom Crabtree~
Jenny
Craig
It's not what you do once in a while,
it's what you do day in and day out
that makes the difference.
~Jenny Craig~
Dinah Mulock
Craik
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person,
having neither to weigh thoughts
nor measure words,
but pouring them all out,
just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
certain that a faithful hand
will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping,
and with a breath of kindness
blow the rest away.
~Dinah Mulock Craik~
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.
~Dinah Mulock Craik~
Frank H.
Crane
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all.
Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us,
gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
~Frank H. Crane~
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
unless you trust enough.
~Frank Crane~
Michel Guillaume Jean
De
Crevecoeur
What then is the American,
this new man?...
He is an American, who,
leaving behind him all his ancient
prejudices and manners,
receives new ones from
the new mode of life he has embraced,
the new government he obeys,
and the new rank he holds.
He becomes an American
by being received in the broad lap
of our great Alma Mater.
Here individuals of all nations
are melted into a new race of men,
whose labors and posterity will one day
cause great changes in the world.
~Michel Guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur~
Davy
Crockett
I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,
Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead.
~Davy Crockett~
Philip
Crosby
Change should be a friend.
It should happen by plan,
not by accident.
~Philip Crosby~
Slowness to change
usually means fear of the new.
~Philip Crosby~
You have to lead people gently toward
what they already know is right.
~Philip Crosby~
Mark A.
Crouch
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.
~Mark A. Crouch~
Marnie Reed
Crowell
To keep the fire burning brightly,
there's one easy rule: keep the two logs together,
near enough to keep each other warm
and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth --
for breathing room.
Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
~Marnie Reed Crowell~
San Juan
De La
Cruz
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult
I want for myself,
and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
~San Juan De La
Cruz~
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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.
~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi~
e.e. cummings
It takes courage to grow up
and turn out to be who you really are.
~e.e. cummings~
Mario M. Cuomo
I watched a small man with
thick calluses on both hands
work 15 and 16 hours a day.
I saw him once literally bleed
from the bottoms of his feet,
a man who came here uneducated,
alone, unable to speak the language,
who taught me all I needed to know
about faith and hard work by the
simple eloquence of his example.
~Mario M. Cuomo~
Marie
Curie
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.
~Marie Curie~
Donald
Curtis
Imagination is our ability to see inwardly
and picture there that which has
not yet appeared outwardly.
Imagination is God's gift to us.
~Donald Curtis~
George
William Curtis
A
man's country is not
a certain area of land,
of mountains, rivers, and woods,
but it is a principle;
and patriotism is
loyalty to that principle.
~George William Curtis~
Dan
Custer
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.
~Dan Custer~
song
playing....All By Myself
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