Winston Churchill

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn.