Winston Churchill Quotes

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  A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Challenge, Life, Opportunity

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Difficulties

• Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Words, Short, Writing
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  Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Encouragement, Failure, Inspirational, Life, Success

  Tags in Continue, Count
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  You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destination, Reach
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  My tastes are simple: Iam easily satisfied with the best.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Simple

• I am easily satisfied with the very best.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Ability, Achievement, Humor

• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Halfway, Gets

• Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Won, Difficulties
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  Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Despair, Weary
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  There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Direction, Change
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  To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Improve
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  You create your own universe as you go along.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Own, Universe
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  Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courage

• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Uneducated, Book

• War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Blunder

• This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Itself, Defends

• The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Defends

• Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Before, Defeat

• To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Build, Destroy

• Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everyone, Days

Winston Churchill (244)

Birth:	30th November, 1874
Death:	24th January, 1965
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist, Historian, Journalist, Politician, Soldier, Statesman, Writer

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