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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
- Courage
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain⁠—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), Part 1: Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.
- Character
- Forgiveness
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
Ben Carsonborn 1951Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 63
- Motivation & Goals
- Responsibility
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal (April 1952)
- Emotion
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Carter, J. (1977). A government as good as its people. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Character
- Power
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather1873–1947Alexander’s Bridge (1912) Ch. 8
- Character
Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.
Nicolas Chamfort1740–1794Maximes et pensées (1805)
- Character
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Raymond Chandler1888–1959“The Simple Art of Murder”, The Atlantic Monthly (December 1944)
- Character
- Courage
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977My Autobiography (1964)
- Character
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Ivanov, Act III, sc. vi (1887)
- Character
A human being should be entirely beautiful: the face, the clothes, the mind, the thoughts.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act II, spoken by AstroffIn context
- Beauty
- Character
You’ve only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I think: “Oh Lord, you’ve given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Two, spoken by LopakhinIn context
- Character
- Nature
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Children
- Forgiveness
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “A Defence of Humilities”
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Charles Dickens (1906)
- Character
- Leadership