Courage

Courage is the footstool of the virtues, upon which they stand.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage

Be like a bird who Halting in his flight On limb too slight Feels it give way beneath him, Yet sings Knowing he hath wings. Victor Hugo

Costs

When we buy things we should think not of the dollar cost but their labor cost, that is, the amount of life we have to give up to obtain the money to buy the things in question.
Henry David Thoreau

Corruption

Describing someone who is brilliant but corrupt: “Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks.”

John Randolf

Conviction

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which least is known.
Michel de Montaigne

Conviction

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. Mark Twain

Contentment

There is no disaster greater than not being content. Lao Tzu