Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.