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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
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You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- 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."
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
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The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- 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
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- 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
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- 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
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- 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
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- 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 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
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
- 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
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
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- 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
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- 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
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- 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
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years
to have breakfast together,
but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- 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
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
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