You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
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.
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due.
Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
