Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Well, dinner would have been splendid!

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.

I’m open and ready to go to the next place, the next level, the next height.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

All one needs to do is read – books, magazines, research the Internet – and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

Don’t start the day until you have it finished. Don’t start the week until you have it finished. Don’t start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

You can make just about anything of your life-anything you will believe or will visualize, anything you will pray for and work for. Look deeply into your mind. Amazing wonders are there. Whatever the situation may be, you can improve it.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The more goals you set, the more goals you get.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.