Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Winston Churchill Quotes
ConfidenceSelf-AssuranceHumorDefiance I'm prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
LuckPerspectiveOptimismTransformation You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.
CouragePerseveranceResilience Success is not final, Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
OptimismPessimismPerspective A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
CommunicationDirectnessImpactRepetition If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever Use a pile driver Hit the point once Then come back and hit it again Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
AlcoholControlPerspective All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
LearningGrowthSelf-RelianceIndependence Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
ConcisenessClaritySimplicity Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.
OptimismPessimismOpportunityPerspective The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
RenunciationCreative ExpressionNew Beginnings I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over, I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
AppeasementDangerFutilityConsequence An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last.
ProactivityActionInitiative I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.
PragmatismCommitmentFlexibility There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.
EnvironmentInfluenceCreationReciprocity We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
PreservationPrioritiesFocus Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
PoliticsPredictionAccountability Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
CourageConvictionIntegrityAdversity You have enemies? Good That means you've stood up for something in your life.
WarPoliticsConsequenceResilience In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
FinancePrudenceDiscipline In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
Self-ReflectionMindsetCritical Thinking Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
PerseveranceDeterminationAdaptability The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
TruthResilienceEndurance The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
CharityKindnessLegislationEthics I object on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to human good feeling and charity.
WisdomHumilityLearningOpen-mindedness The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
CourageFoundationStrength Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Present MomentStep by StepDestiny It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
TruthAvoidanceHuman Nature Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
FutureConflictProgress If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
WarPeaceLeadershipParadox Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Self-ControlCommunicationResponsibility We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Self-ControlSelf-MasteryHumanityPower The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.