Winston Churchill

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise.

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

How you see the future is much more important than what happened in your past.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

I’m wary of what goal I set, because then I’ll have to accomplish it.

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us, and a new beauty waiting to be born.

Failure to plan ahead on your part does not create an emergency on my part.