Winston S. Churchill

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

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”

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

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.”

“My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.”

“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”

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

“We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”

“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.”

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

“Never, never, never give in!”

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

“My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.”

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

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

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

“And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.”

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

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

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

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

“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”

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

“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.”

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

“Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.”

“A joke is a very serious thing.”

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”

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