Famous Quotes: C
Caring
“But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion, and came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine; and he set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.” (Luke 10: 33-34)
“Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, long-suffering.” (Colossians 3:12)
“Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.” (Romans 12:15)
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.” (Steven Vincent Benet)
“Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” (Leo Buscaglia)
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” (Anonymous)
“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” (Saint Basil)
“The best exercise for strengthening the heart is reaching down and lifting people up.” (Ernest Bleveins)
Challenges
“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” (Joshua J. Marine)
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.” (Phyllis Battome)
Change
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.” (Gail Sheehy)
“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” (Harrison Ford)
”You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.” (Mignon McLaughlin)
“Things do not change; we change.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” (Leo Tolstoy)
“The key to change . . . is to let go of fear.” (Roseanne Cash)
“It's not the progress I mind, it's the change I don't like.” (Mark Twain)
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." (Douglas Noel Adams)
“The only people who like change are busy cashiers and wet babies.” (Anonymous)
“Times will change for the better when you change.” (M. Maltz)
Character
“Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16)
“Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!” (John 1: 47)
“He that walketh uprightly walketh surely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.” (Proverbs 10: 9)
“The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.” (Proverbs 11: 3)
“Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.” (Proverbs 28: 6)
“. . . for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.” (2 Corinthians 8: 21)
“Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5: 17)
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2: 10)
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
(John A. Michener)
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within is.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” (Aristotle)
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
(Winston Churchill)
“We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.” (Earle J. Glade)
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
(Mother Teresa)
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are to heavy to be broken.” (Warren Buffett)
“The really great man is the one who makes everyone feel great.” (G.K. Chesterton)
“Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.” (Saint Francis De Sales)
“Of all the properties that belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.” (Henry Clay)
“It’s nice to be important but it’s important to be nice.” (Trini Lopez)
“The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.” (Ann Landers)
“Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one’s identity.” (Erich Fromm)
“If I keep my good character I shall be rich enough.” (Platonicus)
“The discipline of desire is the background of character.” (John Locke)
“No one knows of what stuff he is made until prosperity and ease try him.” (A.P.Gouthey)
“Character is destiny.” (Heraclitus)
“If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.” (Paul Newman)
"Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are.” (Anonymous)
“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.” (Thomas Babington Macauley)
“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.” (Anonymous)
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” (Thomas Jefferson)
“Character - - the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s life - - is the source from which self-respect springs.” (Joan Didion)
“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have a obligation to be one.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
“Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.”
(Faith Baldwin)
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” (Henry Ford)
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” (Anonymous)
”The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.” (Abigail Van Buren)
“Crisis doesn’t develop character; crisis reveals character.” (Max Lucado)
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” (William Shakespeare)
“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.” (Malcolm Forbes)
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Charity
"But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you.” (Luke 11: 40-42)
“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.” (1 Corinthians 13: 1)
"Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys.” (Luke 12: 32-34)
“In charity, there is no excess.” (Sir Francis Bacon)
“Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.” (German proverb)
“Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.” (Henry Ward Beecher)
“God judges what we give by what we keep.” (Gordon Mueller)
Children
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)
“Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein.” (Mark 10:15)
“Whosoever shall receive one of such little children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.”
(Mark 9: 36)
“Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate." (Anonymous)
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." (Lady Bird Johnson)
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." (Nelson Mandela)
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." (John W. Whitehead)
“In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” (Ann Landers)
”Children have more need of models than of critics.” (Joseph Joubert)
“The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.” (Sydney J. Harris)
Communicating
“If the truth were self evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.” (Cicero)
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.” (Stephen King)
Compassion
“Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, long suffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye.” (Colossians 3: 12-13)
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Galatians 6:2)
“Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.”(Romans 12:15)
“Compassion is the basis of morality.” (Arnold Schopenhauer)
“If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” (Stephan Grellet)
“The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation.” (Diane Berke)
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” (Dalai Lama)
“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.” (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.” (Thomas Aquinas)
Confidence
“Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.” (Brian Tracy)
Contentment
“Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul:” (Psalm 23: 1-3)
“Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.” (Hebrews 13:5)
“But godliness with contentment is great gain: for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out; but having food and covering we shall be therewith content. (1Timothy 6: 6-8)
“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content. I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.” (Philippians 4: 11-13)
“Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Matthew 6: 31-34)
“It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones.” (Jean Webster)
Cooperation
“One of the most important trips you can make is meeting the other fellow halfway.” (Unknown)
Courage
“Wait for Jehovah:Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.” (Psalm 27:14)
“Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” (Deuteronomy 31: 6,8)
“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” (Joshua 1:9)
“Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame;” (Isaiah 54:4)
“He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.” (Isaiah 40: 29)
“Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.” (Psalm 31: 24)
“I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.” (Phiiippians 4:13)
“Be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even so as it hath been spoken unto me.“ (Acts 27:25)
“Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” (Johann Von Goethe)
“Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.” (Maya Angelou)
“Fortune befriends the bold.” (John Dryden)
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” (Ambrose Redmoon)
“Is is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and mortal courage so rare.” (Mark Twain)
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” (Robert F. Kennedy)
“People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.” (Mignon McLaughlin)
“Courage is grace under pressure.” (Ernest Hemingway)
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
(Reinhold Niebuhr)
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” (Robert G. Ingersoll)
“Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” (Mark Twain)
“The better part of valor is discretion.” (Shakespeare)
“A coward dies a thousand deaths; the valiant dies but once.” (Julius Caesar)
“One man with courage makes a majority.” (Andrew Jackson)
“The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.” (Conti Vittorio Alfieri)
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
“Self-trust is the essence of heroism.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” (Ed Howe)
"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage." (Chinese proverb)
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”
(Dale Carnegie)
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“One man with courage makes a majority.” (Andrew Jackson)
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” (Mary Anne Radmacher)
“The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.” (Anonymous)
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak,Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” (Winston Churchill)
“Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.” (Dorothea Brand)
“Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.” (Lauren Raffo)
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” (F. P. Jones)
Criticism
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” (Matthew 7:1)
“But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.” (Romans 14: 10)
“Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion of falling.” (Romans 14:13)
“For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.” (James 2: 13)
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” (Mother Teresa)
“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.“ (Mary Kay Ash)
“He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” (Dale Carnegie)
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” (Frank A. Clark)
“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.” (Eli Wallach)
“I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.” (Noel Coward)
“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” (Carl Jung)
