Winston S. Churchill

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

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

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

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

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

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

"A joke is a very serious thing."

"All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind."

"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."

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."

"This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read."

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

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

"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."

"A joke is a very serious thing."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."