Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Friends are thieves of time.