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I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
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We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
Those that fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards
our dwellings shape us.
- Winston Churchill
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
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!
- Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
Personally, I have fond memories of playing
on slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing river
as a child and hitchhiking in college.
To those who say, "But times are different now,"
I reply that statistically life is much safer now
than in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.
What has changed is our attitudes.
In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swing
or the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -
an excuse for gathering autographs.
Today that broken leg would be a source
of outrage and probably lawsuits.
I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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