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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
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.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I think 'no comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.