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#1

“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: experience

1667 likes

#2

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational, misattributed-to-jim-collins, work-ethic

385 likes

#3

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
― Leo Buscaglia

tags: compassion, empathy, inspirational, listening

1482 likes

#4

“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”
― Lewis Carroll

1154 likes

#5

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

2708 likes

#6

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

11012 likes

#7

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

2459 likes

#8

“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1389 likes

#9

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: analogy, public-speaking, simile, speaking

605 likes

#10

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

550 likes

#11

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope”
― Winston Churchill

438 likes

#12

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

319 likes

#13

“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

245 likes

#14

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: classic-insult, retort

211 likes

#15

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: politics

198 likes

#16

“A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

184 likes

#17

“You create your own universe as you go along.”
― Winston S. Churchill

150 likes

#18

“The most important thing about education is appetite.”
― Winston Churchill

147 likes

#19

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
― Winston Churchill

116 likes

#20

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

tags: perseverance, wisdom

2187 likes

#21

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: best, forlorn-hope, perseverance, resolve

1831 likes

#22

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: success

1445 likes

#23

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

tags: fools, humility

1242 likes

#24

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchhill

tags: giving

1132 likes

#25

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: attitude, humor, inspirational

945 likes

#26

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

tags: change

735 likes

#27

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

tags: distractions

560 likes

#28

“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

409 likes

#29

“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

397 likes

#30

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: division, unity

370 likes

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