Calamity
- Calamity is man's true touchstone.
-- Beaumont and Fletcher
- He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over.
-- Beilby Porteus
- Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
-- Seneca
- Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
-- William Davenant
- Calamity is the test of integrity.
-- Samuel Richardson
- Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
-- Henry Mackenzie
Candor
- Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
-- William James
- Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
-- Arabian Proverb
- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.
-- James Fenimore Cooper
- Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
-- George MacDonald
- There is no wisdom like frankness.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Capitalism
- The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
-- Felix Frankfurter
- The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent
virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill
- Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference
is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ;fine home, says: "No
man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All
men should have as much."
-- --Phelps Adams
- The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.
-- --Ralph Barton Perry
- Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
-- --Alfred Marshall
Cause
- Men are blind in their own cause.
-- Neywood Broun
- We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
-- William James
- No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
-- John W. Scoville
- In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
-- --Julius Caesar
- Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.
-- Thomas E. Dewey
- The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.
-- Wilhelm Stekel
- The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
-- Ed Howe
- Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
-- William P. Merrill
- The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
-- William Jennings Bryan
- Great causes and little men go ill together.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
- It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
-- Thomas Paine
- If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
-- Wendell Phillips
- A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
-- Thomas Paine
- No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from
the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble
hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost;
it is only then that cause triumphs.
-- Guizot
Caution
Hasten slowly.
-- Augustus Caesar
- I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
-- Henry Ward Peecher
- The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-- Alfred Adler
- Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
- Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
-- Euripides
- It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
-- Publilius Syrus
- Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
-- Charles Hole
Censure
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
-- Joseph Addison
- I find that the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.
-- Seigneur de Saint-Evremond
- Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
-- William Gillmore Simms
- Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
-- Jonathan Swift
- They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
-- William Penn
- The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
-- Demosthenes
Censorship
- I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
-- James Robinson
- Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
-- Walt Whitman
- Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
-- Ludwig Börne
- Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
-- Ben Lindsay
- Every burned book enlightens the world.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
-- Elias Lyman Maggon
- As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
-- Beaumarchais
- Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
-- Potter Stewart
- If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
-- Voltaire
- The internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
-- John Perry Barlow
Certainty
- When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.
-- John Wesley
- To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
-- Olin Miller
- In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
-- Pliny the Elder
- Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
-- George Meredith
- There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
-- Robert Burns
- If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
-- Francis Bacon
- Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
- There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
-- Owen Meredith
- To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Change
- There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
-- Washington Irving
- When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
-- Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland
- He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
-- Harold Wilson
- Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
-- Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
- Never swap horses crossing a stream.
-- American Proverb
- I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
-- Preston Bradley
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-- Leo Tolstoi
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
- The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.
-- Laurence Joseph McGinley
- We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
-- Carl T. Rowan
- We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if
change were stopped.
-- Lyman Lloyd Bryson
- Things do not change, we do.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
-- Charles F. Kettering
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
-- Francis Bacon
- Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work
to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will
be written the history of this generation.
-- Robert F. Kennedy
- There is nothing permanent except change.
-- Heraclitus
- All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
-- Ellen Glasgow
- In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
-- William Cullen Bryant
- Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Everything flows; nothing remains.
-- Heraclitus
Character
- Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg
- Character is a victory, not a gift.
-- Anonymous
- There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, ;or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
-- George Matthew Adams
- Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
-- Alphonse Karr
- What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You must look into people, as well as at them.
-- Lord Chesterfield
- Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight Moody
- Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character.
-- George Dana Boardman
- Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence.
-- Edward Rickenbacker
- Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
-- Henry Clay
- A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
-- Jean Paul Richter
- Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
-- Robert Freeman
- Man's character is his fate.
-- Heraclitus
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