Winston Churchill

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Winston Churchill

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Winston Churchill

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Winston Churchill

Don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting.

Winston Churchill

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

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

Winston Churchill

Even [man’s] greatest neglects or failures may bring him good. Even his greatest achievements may work him ill.

Winston Churchill

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Winston Churchill

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill