Caring
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Cats
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with a strange cat.
Colonial American proverb

One cat leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway

Champions
Champions aren't made in gyms. They are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali

Change
The only person who likes change is a wet baby.
Mark Twain

Change - Improve
It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise.
Nancy Thayer in Morning (Scribner)

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks about changing themselves.
John Randolph

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
Everett McKinley Dirksen

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Sydney J. Harris

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

Character
Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to.
Arnold Glasow

Character - Sports
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Haywood Hale Brown

Character - Suffering
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Charity
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

Cheerfulness
Cheerfulness: The more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Child
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
Kitaro Nishida

Children
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
Abigail Van Buren

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's age.
Benjamin Spock

Children are God's spies.
Elizabeth Bowen

Children need models more than they need critics.
Joseph Joubert

Choices
Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Christmas

Circumstances - Future
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Complaining
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Lou Holtz

Computers
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
Anonymous

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.
Steve Jobs

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Bill Gates

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook  

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.
Al Goodman

Concentration
The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is:  Wherever you are, be there.
Jim Rohn

Confidence
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers. It comes from being open to all the questions.
Earl Gray Stevens

Confidence - Self-esteem
To feel valued, to know that, if only once in a while that you can do a job well, is a marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters

Conversation
In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
Andy Rooney

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.
Gov. Jesse Ventura

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

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds

Courage - Fear
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
Scott Turow in The Burden of Proof

Crime
The reason we have crime is because we have bad guys.
Rush Limbaugh

Criticism
Most people don't mind criticism as long as it's about someone else.
Suzan L. Wiener

Critics
The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The person who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.
General David M. Shoup

Curiosity
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous  structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

Customer - Deliver
Discover what the customer wants. Deliver plus one.
Ken Blanchard

Darkness
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
O.G. Mandino

Decision
Every great leap forward in your life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.
Brian Tracy

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Dr. Robert Schuller

Every great decision creates ripples, like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
Benjamin Disraeli

Democracy - Minority
Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
Harlan F. Stone

Desire
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

Disagreement
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne

Discipline
Everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think that everybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.
Al Hirschfeld

Dogs
No one appreciates the special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
Edward Abbey

Doubts
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon

Driving
Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
Unknown