Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

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.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

What we become depends on what our fathers teach us.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Sir, I have no objection to a man’s drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

Try not. Do or do not… there is no try.