“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible , and achieves the impossible.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
“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.”
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
“A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”
“Never, never, never give in!”
“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
“I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
“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.”
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
“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.”
“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
“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.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“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.”
“Keep calm and carry on.”
“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.”
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
“He who fails to plan is planning to fail.”
“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.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
“You create your own universe as you go along.”
“If you don’t take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.”
“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
“The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists.”
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
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