Winston Churchill

Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

The soul’s emphasis is always right.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

When you know better you do better.

Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.