Winston S. Churchill

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

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

"It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"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."

"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."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"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."

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."

"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."

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

"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."

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"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."

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

"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

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