Winston Churchill Quotes - Page 24

• Nature will not be admired by proxy.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Proxy

  Winston Churchill (2012). “The Story of the Malakand Field Force”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

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  Opportunity, May, Time Management

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• It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Military, Giving

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• So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

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  Courage, Thinking, Long

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

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  Mistake, Promise, Victory

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

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  Sticks, Urban, Planning

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• It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

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  Beautiful, Women, Impossible

  Sir Winston Churchill (1956). “Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania”, Random

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• We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

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  Interesting, Sugar, Way

  Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 194

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• There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

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  Space, Duty, Obligation

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• War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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  Smile, Peace, War

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• The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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  War, Victory And Defeat, Problem

  Winston Churchill, Colin Coote, Ryōichi Amano (1965). “チャ-チル名言集”

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• Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

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  Destiny, Free Will, Mark

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

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  Leadership, Men, Each Day

  Winston Churchill (1959). “The World Crisis”

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• Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.

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  Home, Men, Goal

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• Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

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  Philosophy, Virtue, Symmetry

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

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  Laughter, Children, Fun

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

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  Violence, Nazi, Achieve

  "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War". Book by Patrick J Buchanan, p. 396, 2008.

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• We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

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  War, Mean, Misfortunes

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• ...to win by one is enough.

  Winston Churchill

  Winning, Enough

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• There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

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  Long, Decision, Facts

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fate, Winning

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• Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Able, Bears

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• I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

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  School, Race, Discouraged

  "A Roving Commission".

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• We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

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  Leadership, Dark, Faculty

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Defeat

  The Second World War vol. 4 (1951)

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