Winston S. Churchill

"Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting."

"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

"I'm bored with it all. - Last Words"

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."

"It's no use saying, "We are doing our best."You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

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

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."

"Never, never, never give in!"

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is 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."

"A joke is a very serious thing."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."