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The farther backward you can look,
by Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill

Related topics: Wisdom Deep Political Life

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill PHOTO

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill PHOTO
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

 

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

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

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- 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

The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.
- 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

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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill

It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- 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

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill

I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- 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

If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- 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

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

However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill

Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- 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

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

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill

Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man.
Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill

If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill

Those that fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol
than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill

I am bored with it all.
- Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill

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