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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
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The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
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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
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
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- 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 nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- 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
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- 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
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing.
- 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 we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- 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
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- 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
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- 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
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- 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
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- 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."
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- 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
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
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- 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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
War is a game that is played with a smile.
If you can't smile, grin.
If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- Winston Churchill
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