Cicero
Laws are silent in time of war.

Gregory Clark
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

James B. Cabell
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Julius Caesar
I came, I saw, I conquered.

Michael Caine
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

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

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

Joseph Campbell
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Eddie Cantor
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Al Capone
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Thomas Carlyle
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Dale Carnegie
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Rosalynn Carter
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

Carlos Castaneda
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

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

Viscount Cecil
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

Charles A. Cerami
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Joseph Chamberlian
Learn and think imperially.

Richard Chamberland
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Kyle Chandler
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

W. E. Channing
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Maurice Chevalier
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

T'ao Ch'ien
Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss."

Chilton
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

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

Cicero
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

In time of war the law falls silent.

Arthur C Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Frances Clark
There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one."

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

Mark A. Clement
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

Peter Cochrane
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Samuel Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Charles Caleb Colton
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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 are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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

Todd Coomber
Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.

Chad Coombs
Memories of today, brings legends for tomorrow.

Michael Corleone
Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment.

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

E. Joseph Cossman
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Stephen Covey
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Thomas Cowan
The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.

George Crane
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done. one can only see what remains to be done.

Winston Churchill
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning. (Winston Churchill)

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

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

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat

Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour´

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I like a man who grins when he fights.