“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible , and achieves the impossible.”
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
“A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”
“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
“Never, never, never give in!”
“I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
“We shall never surrender.”
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”
“If you find a job you love, you’ll never work again...”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.”
“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
“Keep calm and carry on.”
“You create your own universe as you go along.”
“The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists.”
“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“If you don’t take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.”
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.”
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
“The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.”
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
“In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will.”
“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
“He who fails to plan is planning to fail.”
“Don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting.”
“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”
“Most of the world’s work is done by people who don’t feel very well.”
“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
“Show me a young Conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains.”
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
“A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.”
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
“The most important thing about education is appetite.”
“A joke is a very serious thing.”
“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
“There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.”
“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”
“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
“Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.”
“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.”
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
“You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.”
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
“I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.”
“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
“I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.”
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.”
“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”
“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.”
“The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.”
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