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Don't 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

Don't 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 events.

Winston Churchill
Positive, Hurt, Mistake
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

Winston Churchill
Simple, Citizens, Want

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

Winston Churchill
Freedom, People, Political

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Winston Churchill
Dream, Cease, Universe
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Engineering, Shapes
"The Best-laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future". Book by Randal O'Toole, p. 161, 2007.

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Winston Churchill
Change, Giving Up, War
Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Men

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Winston Churchill
Political, Democracy, Trying
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Winston Churchill
Art, Giving, Diplomacy

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Winston Churchill
Courage, Men, Order

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Winston Churchill
Witty, Powerful, Humorous

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill
Sad, Being Strong, Lonely
Winston Churchill (2012). “The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

Winston Churchill
Essentials, Littles, Planning

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Life, Leadership
Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.

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
Philosophy, Not Giving Up, Years
Winston S. Churchill (2014). “The Unwritten Alliance”, p.412, RosettaBooks

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Winston Churchill
Exercise, Power, Lust

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

Winston Churchill
Sports, Strong, Party
Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “Memoral Addresses and Tributes”

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Winston Churchill
America, Hair, Order

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

Winston Churchill
Character, Destiny, Watches

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

Winston Churchill
Strong, Lunch, Alcohol
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill
Time, Peace, Truth
Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference November 30, 1943; in Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Winston Churchill
Giving Up, War, Don't Give Up
Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

Winston Churchill
Consistent

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Death, Witty
Quoted in L.A. Times, 28 Nov. 1954

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

Winston Churchill
Mindset, Frontiers

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