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#1

“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor

#2

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
― Winston Churchill

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#3

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: success

1443 likes

#4

“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor

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#5

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: inspiration, responsibility

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#6

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: fanaticism, zealot

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#7

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: fools, humility

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#8

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchhill

tags: giving

1126 likes

#9

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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#10

“We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

tags: inspirational

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#11

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history

523 likes

#12

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: analogy, public-speaking, simile, speaking

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#13

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."

[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]”
― Winston Churchill

tags: criticism

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#14

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
― Winston Spencer-Churchill

tags: humility

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#15

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: persistence, public-speaking, speeches

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#16

“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”
― Winston Churchill

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#17

“A joke is a very serious thing.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor, life

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#18

“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.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: writing

398 likes

#19

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: quotes

397 likes

#20

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: health, politics, wisdom

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#21

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Churchill Speaks: Collected Speeches in Peace and War, 1897-1963

tags: democracy, government

270 likes

#22

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

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#23

“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: humor

254 likes

#24

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: inspirational

277 likes

#25

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: common-sense

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#26

“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: patriotism, war

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#27

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: law

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#28

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”
― Winston Churchill

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#29

“An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: classic-insult, humor, humour, retort

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#30

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
― Winston Churchill

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