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Quotes of Winston Churchill 1911-1968 British Journalist
Winston Churchill Photo and Biography
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (character)
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. (character)
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. (success & failure)
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (success & failure)
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. (character)
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. (life)
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. (success & failure)
Great and good are seldom the same man. (human)
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! (defeat)
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (death and dying)
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last. (compromise)
The English never draw a line without blurring it. (compromise)
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. (contradiction)
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go. (dogs)
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. (charity)
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. (critics and criticis)
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. (character)
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. (conscience)
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. (decisions)
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. (communism and social)
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. (difficulties)
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. (defeat)
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. (business)
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. (communism and social)
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. (democracy)
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