Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

That after an hour’s silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness… That’s all, it took him an hour to work that out.

Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium – indifference.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again – and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another’s and each obeying its own law.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.