Winston Churchill

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

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!

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

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.