Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Those that are little, little things suit.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.