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Eileen Caddy

The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

John Cage
(1912-1992, Composer)

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear.

Michael Caine
(Actor)

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

R. A. Campbell

This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better.

Elizabeth Cameron

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Julia Cameron
(Writer)

Anger is a fuel. It is meant to be acted on, not acted out.

Albert Camus
(Writer, 1913-1960)

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Kristine Carlson
(Writer)

When you're feeling good, you tend to shine. Pick one of these days to look in the mirror and notice the good stuff about yourself.

Thomas Carlyle

The purpose of man is in action, not thought.

Amy Carmichael
(Missionary, 1867-1951)

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Andrew Carnegie

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hope.

Johnny Carson

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Rosalynn Smith Carter
(U.S. First Lady and Activist)

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

Pablo Casals

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated, but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Johnny Cash
(Musician)

Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Marcus Cato
(Statesman, 234-149 B.C.)

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Edgar Cayce
(Folk healer, 1877-1945)

Smile always--and live the smile.

Allan K. Chalmers
(Writer)

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

Jim Chandler
(Clergyman)

We must move beyond tolerance, beyond acceptance, to celebration of our diversity. Only in celebration do we truly embrace the gifts we each are, and empower our own lives with the gifts of others.

Steve Chandler
(Public speaker and corporate trainer)

If you see your problems as curses, the motivation you're looking for in life will be hard to find.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Andrew Chapman

Kindness is the kingpin of success in life; it is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery run smoothly.

Maria Weston Chapman

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

G. K. Chesterton
(Writer, 1874-1936)

The really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Deepak Chopra
(Physician and writer)

The best way to motivate other people to help you fulfill your goals is to help them fulfill their goals.

[A]lways expect the best and you'll see that the outcome is spontaneously contained in the expectation.

Agatha Christie
(Writer)

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.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

May Christie

Love is the greatest beautifier in the universe.

Jennie Jerome Churchill
(Mother of Winston Churchill, 1854-1921)

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

Winston Churchill

Democracy is the worst system ever invented--except for all the rest.

C. West Churchman

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.

Luc de Clapiers
(Soldier and writer, 1715-1747)

Great thoughts come from the heart.

Karen Kaiser Clark
(Educator)

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

John Clendenin
(Teacher)

In all things, be willing to listen to people around you. None of us is really smart enough to go it alone.

Alan Cohen

Focus on what you are moving toward rather than what you are leaving behind.

Herb Cohen
(Negotiation Expert)

When you endeavor to do what's right against all odds, even if you don't at first succeed, there's nobility and even majesty in such setbacks.

Johnnetta B. Cole
Educator

I think the most profound expression of education is action--action in the interest of helping to heal what ails our communities, our nation, and our world.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Poet and philosopher, 1772-1834)

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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.

Jeremy Collier
(Clergyman, 1650-1726)

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Marva Collins

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

Barbara Colorose

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

Self-discipline [is] an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside.

James P. Comer

While most of today's jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago.

David H. Comins

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Confucius
(Philosopher, 551-479 B.C.)

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Beth Mende Conny

There's nothing wrong with being realistic--as long as you create your own reality.

If you don't take control of your life, don't complain when others do.

Mason Cooley

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

Robert K. Cooper
(Leadership consultant)

How can we ever hope to grasp the deeper possibilities of life, and lead invigorated or meaningful days, if we're all dashing around nonstop like water bugs on the surface of a swirling river?

Pierre Corneille
(Dramatist, 1606-1684)

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Barry Cornwall
(Writer, 1787-1874)

Love's a thing that's never out of season.

Jo Coudert

To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.

Norman Cousins
(Writer, 1915-1990)

Laughter is a form of internal jogging.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach toward immortality.

Stephen R. Covey

Balance isn't either/or; it's and.

Difference is the beginning of synergy.

The single most powerful investment we can ever make in life is investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

Bruce Crampton
(Professional golfer)

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(Psychologist and Educator)

Strange as it may seem, life becomes serene and enjoyable precisely when selfish pleasures and personal success are no longer the guiding goals.

Henry Curtis

Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because 25 years from now they will seem mediocre. You will wonder why you did not make them 50 times as great.