Winston Churchill

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

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen’s speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Live, let live, and help live

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.