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Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Related topics: Motivational Positive Inspirational Courage Success
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- 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
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- 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
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- 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
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
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- 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
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- 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
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
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
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- 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
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
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.
- Winston Churchill
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
I have taken more out of alcohol
than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
"No comment" is a splendid expression.
I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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