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#1

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism

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#2

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance

6292 likes

#3

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance, wisdom

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#4

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort

1447 likes

#5

“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor

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#6

“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor

997 likes

#7

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: fools, humility

1241 likes

#8

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: inspiration, responsibility

1079 likes

#9

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

tags: perseverance

1088 likes

#10

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: appeasement, human, humor, nature, politics

833 likes

#11

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: books

873 likes

#12

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: change

734 likes

#13

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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#14

“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
― Sir Winston Churchill

tags: inspirational, life, success

726 likes

#15

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history

523 likes

#16

“History is written by the victors.”
― Walter Benjamin

tags: history

502 likes

#17

“A joke is a very serious thing.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor, life

401 likes

#18

“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 Spencer-Churchill

tags: humility

441 likes

#19

“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: language

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#20

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes 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 to the public.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: writing

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#21

“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”
― Winston Churchill

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#22

“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 S. Churchill

tags: persistence, public-speaking, speeches

455 likes

#23

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: quotes

397 likes

#24

“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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#25

“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: taxes

278 likes

#26

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: horse

256 likes

#27

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: distractions

557 likes

#28

“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: forcasting, future-plans

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#29

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

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#30

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: incrementalism, perseverance, progress

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