Quotes starting with C

Below you will find our collection of inspirational quotes and sayings starting with the letter C, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


Quotes

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Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.      -- Julius Caesar (c.102-44 BC)
Can't get blood from a stone.      -- unknown
Can't see the forest for the trees.      -- unknown
Carve the peg by looking at the hole.      -- Korean (on appropriateness)
Change is inevitable      -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Change yourself and fortune will change.      -- Portuguese (on fortune)
Character building begins in infancy and continues until death.      -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Character is easier kept than recovered.      -- English (on character and virtue)
Character is habit long continued.      -- Greek
Charity begins at home.      -- Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)
Charity covers a multitude of sins.      -- Bible (Peter 4:8)
Chickens don't praise their own soup.      -- Martinican (on flattery and praise)
Children are a poor man's riches.      -- English Proverb
Children have more need of models than critics.     -- French (on parents and children)
Choose the hills wisely on which you must do battle.      -- unknown
Choose to be forgiven.      -- unknown
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house.      -- Hausa (West African) (on planning)
Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.      -- Mack King
Circumstances alter cases.      -- T. Rymer (1678)
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.      -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.      -- John Harvey MacDonald Jr. combat wounded, Vietnam 1969
Clothes don't make the man.      -- unknown
Clothes may disguise a fool, but his voice will give him away.      -- unknown
Clouds gather before a storm.      -- unknown
Clouds that thunder, do not always rain.      -- Armenian (on vanity and arrogance)
Cold hands, warm heart.      -- V.S. Lean (1903)
Come what may, time and hour runs through the roughest day.      -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.      -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Common sense is not so common.      -- French (on common sense)
Compete     -- n't envy.- Yemeni (on jealousy and envy)
Confession is good for the soul.      -- Scottish Proverb
Conscience makes cowards of us all.      -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Constant dripping will wear away a stone.      -- Greek Proverb
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Control your emotions or they will control you.      -- Chinese Proverb
Count your blessings.      -- unknown
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.      -- William Danforth (1870-1955)
Courage is the complement of fear.      -- Lazarus Long, thanks to D. Housel
Cowards die many times before their death.      -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Creditors have better memories than debtors.      -- English (on business)
Curiosity killed the cat.      -- E. O'Neill (1888-1953)
Curses like chickens, come home to roost.      -- Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Cut your coat according to your cloth.      -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse.      -- Creole (on authenticity)