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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.

- Eileen Caddy

 

Don't let anyone steal your Dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.

- Jack Cainfield

 

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

- Philip Caldwell

 

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point.

- Maria Callas

 

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

- Arthur Calwell

 

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

- Simon Cameron

 

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

- Joseph Campbell

 

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

- Joseph Campbell

 

When people get married because they think it's a long- time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

- Joseph Campbell

 

Sin is hoping for another life and eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

- Albert Camus

 

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

- Albert Camus

 

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

 

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

- Albert Camus

 

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental questions of philosophy.

- Albert Camus

 

You know what charm is: a way of getting the awnswer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

- Albert Camus

 

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

- Albert Camus

 

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Albert Camus

 

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

- Albert Camus

 

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

- Jack Canfield

 

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

- Alexander Cannon

 

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

- Truman Capote

 

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.

- Sandra Carey

 

Every noble work is at first impossible.

- Thomas Carlyle

 

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

- Thomas Carlyle

 

Every new opinion at its starting is precisely a minority of one.

- Thomas Carlyle

 

A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.

- Thomas Carlyle

 

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

- Bliss Carman

 

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

- Andrew Carnegie

 

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

- Andrew Carnegie

 

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

- Dale Carnegie

 

You can make more friends in two months by becoming 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

 

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

- Frank Capra

 

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

- Jasper Carrott

 

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

- Johnny Carson

 

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

- Boake Carter

 

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

- Margaret Carty

 

The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance.

- Pablo Casals

 

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

- Giacomo Casanova

 

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you... Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

- Carlos Castaneda

 

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

- Cato the Elder

 

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

- Cato the Elder

 

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

- Dick Cavett

 

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

- Dick Cavett

 

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

- Nicholas Caussin

 

Truth may be stretched, but cannnot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

- Miguel de Cervantes

 

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

- Miguel de Cervantes

 

By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the house of Never.

- Miguel de Cervantes

 

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

- Allan K. Chalmers

 

Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set.

- Charlie Chan

 

The more you reason the less you create.

- Raymond Chandler

 

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

- Coco Chanel

 

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

 

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

- George Chapman

 

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

- John Jay Chapman

 

You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.

- Ilka Chase

 

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

- Cesar Chavez

 

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.

- John Cheever

 

Man is what he believes.

- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

 

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

 

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

- Cherokee Saying

 

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

- Earl of Chesterfield

 

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

- Lord Chesterfield

 

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

Life itself is the proper binge.

- Julia Child

 

Compassion and understanding facilitate, while judgments debilitate and create stress.

- Doc Childre

 

Compassion is ignited when we realize that each person (including yourself) is unique, then connect in the heart at the essence level and desire to understand that person's being. When you care and have passion to understand, you become compassionate.

- Doc Childre

 

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things.

- I Ching

 

It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside.

- I Ching

 

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

- Chinese Proverb

 

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

- Deepak Chopra

 

If you create any open space within yourself, love will fill it.

- Deepak Chopra

 

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

- Deepak Chopra

 

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

- Deepak Chopra

 

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

- Deepak Chopra

 

What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

- Deepak Chopra

 

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

- Deepak Chopra

 

Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.

- Deepak Chopra

 

The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.

- Deepak Chopra

 

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

- Chuang-tzu

 

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

 

When I abuse the language, I call it 'art' and call myself an artist; when you abuse the language, I call it 'wrong,' call myself a critic, and assume an air of unimpeachable authority.

- Fennec A. Churl

 

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

- Count Galeazzo Ciano

 

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

- John Ciardi

 

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

- John Ciardi

 

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be gily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be preferred to all things.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

The more laws, the less justice.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

There are two kinds of people: the ones who have to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

- Tom Clancy

 

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

- Blake Clark

 

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find out.

- Frank A. Clark

 

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

- Frank A. Clark

 

"In my live I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving.

Nothing else - not fame, not power, not acheivement for its own sake - can possibly have the same lasting value.

Nicole Des Jardine Wakefeild's Pah, 'Rama Revealed'
- Arthur C. Clarke

 

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.

- Arthur C. Clarke

 

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

- Arthur C. Clarke

 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

- Arthur C. Clarke

 

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

- Arthur C. Clarke

 

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

- Henry Clay

 

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

- Eldridge Cleaver

 

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

- Eldridge Cleaver

 

...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.

- Richard V. Clemence

 

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

- Georges Clemenceau

 

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

- Georges Clemenceau

 

To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others.

- Eugene Cloutier

 

Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Our magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams.

- Paulo Coelho

 

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

- Harold Coffin

 

I wanted to kiss this woman so bad, I wondered how I would stay alive without it.

- Richard Cohen

 

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

- Johnetta Cole

 

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

- Ornette Coleman

 

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.

- Robert Coleman

 

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

The fair breeze blew, the foam flew, the furrow followed free: we were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

Be happy. It is a way of being wise.

- Colette

 

Life is a buffet and only the suckers are starving.

- Joan Collins

 

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers on their road. - Both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

- Charles Caleb Colton

 

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.

- Charles Caleb Colton

 

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

- Charles Caleb Colton

 

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.

- Confucius

 

There is in true beauty something which vulgar souls cannot admire.

- William Congreve

 

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

- Cyril Connoly

 

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

- Cyril Connoly

 

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

- Cyril Connoly

 

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

- Cyril Connoly

 

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

- Cyril Connoly

 

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary, men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

- Joseph Conrad

 

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists pricipally of dealing with men.

- Joseph Conrad

 

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

- Joseph Conrad

 

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

- Calvin Coolidge

 

Four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

- Calvin Coolidge

 

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning.

- Rich Cook

 

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

- James Fenimore Cooper

 

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

- James Fenimore Cooper

 

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

- James Fenimore Cooper

 

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

- James Fenimore Cooper

 

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

- Bill Cosby

 

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

- Bill Cosby

 

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

- Bill Cosby

 

Obstacles are things that a person sees when they take their mind off their goal

- E. Joseph Cossman

 

The greatest power is often simple patience.

- E. Joseph Cossman

 

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

- Laurence Coughlin

 

The flush toilet is the basis of western civilization.

- Alan Coult

 

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.

- Norman Cousins

 

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

- Stephen R. Covey

 

Integrity is the key to your power.

- Stephen R. Covey

 

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

- James Gould Cozzens

 

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.

- Monta Crane

 

A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.

- Stephan Crane

 

Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with the experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we have believed to be the right and only way.

- Ralph Crawshaw

 

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

 

If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

- Robert Cringely

 

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

- James Crook

 

A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.

- Ernest Crosby

 

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

- E. E. Cummings

 

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

- Marie Curie

 

Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.

- C. Curran

 

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

- George William Curtis