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If we open a quarrel between past and present,
by Winston Churchill

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

Related topics: Wisdom

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward 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

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

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- 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 pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

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

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- 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

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

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- 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

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

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

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

The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol
than alcohol has taken out of me.
- 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 am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill

There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world,
and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill

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