C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Contribute to culture.”
“Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help someone with directions unless you have a terrible sense of direction. Help someone who is trying to help you. Just help. Make an impact. Show someone you care. Say yes instead of no. Say something nice. Smile. Make eye contact. Hug. Kiss. Get naked.”
“Contribute your quota to nation building”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and so on, not proselytizing and missionary-izing. Not shoving the truth down people's throats, as if we know what's good for them. But being open when asked, when appropriate, and being very inclusive and open minded.”
“Contribution is a silent measure of our life philosophy and core value; it is the unspoken gesture of what we believe and value in life, an investment with divine returns.”
“Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.”
Source: #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
“Contrition
I don’t deserve you, he said, half-defeated, half-hopeful. It was the most honest thing he had ever said to me. And he was right. He didn’t deserve me. Not by a long shot. But he had me nonetheless.”
Source: The Universe of Us
“Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.”
“Control and manipulation are not love; the outcome is a life of imprisonment ultimately leading to deep-rooted feelings of resentment.”
“Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Control charts are one of the statistical tools for solving quality related problems.”
“Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers”
“Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.”
“Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.”
“CONTROL FREAK - A HAIKU
My need to control,
Controls me, lost in its grip,
Freedom's in release.”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.”
“Control healthcare and you control the people”
“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.”
Source: A People's History of the United States
“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are filled qith cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.”
“Control in this context does not mean domineering others or dominating a conversation...Your framing should enthuse and captivate the audience rather than trying to convince them of your own notions or viewpoints.”
“Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.”
Source: How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick
“Control is an illusion, Steele. I learned that a long time ago. It doesn't matter who appears to have it. We really only can control ourselves. We have choices. You were my choice.”
Source: Vengeance Road
“Control is an illusion that you must give up.”
Source: Awakening in the 21st Century: Considering Existence
“Control is an illusion.
We don’t even have control over the next heart beat!”
“Control is an illusion.”
Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers
“Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control, there is only consent!”
“Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress”
Source: Creation: Life and How to Make It
“Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.”
“Control is most effective
when it no longer feels like control.”
“Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.”
“Control is not humble; control is arrogant.”
“Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.”
“Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You've got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you're in the boondocks it won't do you any good.”
“Control is the product of your disabled will. It is an attempt to will what cannot be willed. You cannot change another person. You cannot fix your parents, spouse, lover or children. You cannot control their lives or their pain.”
Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You
“Control is the source of strategic power.”
“Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.”
“Control isn’t given. It’s taken.”
Saskia Montclair.
Every Silence Has a Price”
“Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.”
“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”
Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“Control leaves no room for trust.”
Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“Control me...release me...forget about me.”
“CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!”
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Control of senses is an important human value.”
“Control of space means control of the world.”
Source: A Time for Action
“Control of the masses through wage slavery.”
“Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.”
Source: Daily meditations on the path and its qualifications: from the works of Annie Besant
“Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.”
“Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.”
“Control or be controlled are the choices that will make life different.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game