Winston Churchill
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
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. Never run away from anything. Never !
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Never, never, never give up.
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 honor and good sense.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.