Quotes: C

Chance favors only the mind which is prepared.
- Louis Pasteur

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
- William Ward

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
- Jacqueline Bisset

Character is what you are in the dark.
- D.L. Moody

Children are like mosquitoes. The minute they stop making a noise, you know they’re getting into something.

Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Joseph Joubert

Comedy is tragedy plus time.
- Carol Burnett

Conceit is the most incurable disease that is known to the human soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Concern for man and his fate must form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget that in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens…and then everybody disagrees.
- Boris Marchalov

Conscience is a playback of the still small voice that told you not to do it in the first place.

Conscience is God’s presence in man.
- Emanuel Swedenborg

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conviction is worthless unless is it converted into conduct.
- Thomas Carlyle

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

Creativity, when not used, turns to depression.
- Henri Reiman

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird–that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace–making the complicated simple, awesomely simple–that’s creativity.
- Charles Mingus

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It’s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don’t have to try.
- Peggy Noonan

Cynicism is often the shame-faced product of inexperience.
- A.J. Liebling