I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: determination persistence persevere goal mission vision convictions victory success defeat honor wisdom

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: optimism pessimism attitude positive positivity outlook faith hope

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: thought vision philosophy future think

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Winston Churchill The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: wisdom learning education leadership mentor knowledge teaching

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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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 The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: trouble worry anxiety anxious stress attitude

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Winston Churchill The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character failure defeat compromise grace humility serve

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: simplicity values greatness

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: time life aging age balance priorities

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
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Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success failure attitude mistakes victory defeat enthusiasm

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 The Book of Positive Quotations
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Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
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Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
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Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
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The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
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I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Winston Churchill The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort results

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: anger character personality self-control

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: change growth self-improvement

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: courage speech talk listen understand communication

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character community society freedom justice science law honor morality behavior manners

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: optimism pessimism attitude focus vision perspective negative positive

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: leisure work effort priorities success courage bravery

If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: business service attitude personality

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: truth learning knowledge wisdom growth self-improvement

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill Leadership: A Treasury of Great Quotations for Those Who Aspire to Lead
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It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.
Winston Churchill Random House Webster's Quotationary
Categories: worry perspective

What 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.
Winston Churchill A Mind Like His: Developing the Character of Christ
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