Winston+Churchill

=Winston Churchill=

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1. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

2. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

3. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

4. A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

5. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

7. Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

8. By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

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

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

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

12. Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. (Wise, Careful, Tactful Criticism)

13. Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

14. Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

15. Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

16. Great and good are seldom the same man.

17. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

18. History is written by the victors.

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

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

21. I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

22. I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

24. I like a man who grins when he fights.

25. I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

26. If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

27. 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.

28. If you're going through hell, keep going.

29. In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

30. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

31. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

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

33. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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

35. It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

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

37. Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

38. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

39. No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

40. Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

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

42. Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

43. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

44. Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

45. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

46. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

47. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

48. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

49. The first quality that is needed is audacity.

50. The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

51. The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

53. 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.

54. This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

55. To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

56. 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.

57. We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

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

59. When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

60. When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

61. When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

62. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

63. Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.

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

65. You create your own universe as you go along.

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