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Although prepared for martyrdom,
by Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill

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You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill PHOTO

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill PHOTO
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

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The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill

 

The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

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.
- Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill

It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill

Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill

Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe
between whom rivers of blood have flowed
to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
- Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days -
the greatest days our country has ever lived.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill


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