Winston Churchill

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

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.

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

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, 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.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to carry it off.

He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

If we want maturity, we have to be mature. If we want a nation that feels hopeful, then we have to speak in hopeful terms… We have to model what we want.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

People die of fright and live of confidence.