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"In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity." Fritjof Capra 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." Sandra Carey 3.4800 average rating Rate this Quote
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Thomas Carlyle 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you." Thomas Carlyle 3.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one." Thomas Carlyle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." Thomas Carlyle 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities." Thomas Carlyle 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community." Andrew Carnegie 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." Dale Carnegie 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare." Dale Carnegie 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today." Dale Carnegie 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths." Alexis Carrel 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." Rachel Louise Carson 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." Rachel Louise Carson 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea." Rachel Louise Carson 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived." Willa Carter 3.5714 average rating Rate this Quote
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity." James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants." James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." George Washington Carver 4.9032 average rating Rate this Quote
"The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance." Pablo Casals Rate this Quote
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