Nov 10, 2012

TOP QUOTES FROM W. CHURCHILL

Some of the best quotes from Winston Churchill: 

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

It is a good thing for an educated man to read books of quotations

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Any man who is under 30,and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Kites rise highest against the wind--not with it.

I'm always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The price of greatness is responsibility .

Great and good are seldom the same man.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it .

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Never, never, never give up.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.