You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: distractions
But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston S. ChurchillA good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: simile analogy public-speaking speaking
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
Winston S. ChurchillWhat is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: inspirational
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me
Winston S. ChurchillTags: marriage marriage-proposal
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
Tags: poisoning
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: perseverance resolve best forlorn-hope
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;
In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983
Tags: goals vision work victory determination
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: duty
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