It happens that once we learn a thing, the motivation to keep it up grows and expands further as well. Winston Churchill More Quotes by Winston Churchill More Quotes From Winston Churchill Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters. Winston Churchill achievementdisappointmentmatter It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large. Winston Churchill spheresadvicegiving History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . . Winston Churchill menwarcivilization Success always demands a greater effort. Winston Churchill demandeffortdetermination Things do not get better by being left alone. Winston Churchill left-aloneget-betteraction There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. Winston Churchill safetymilitarytrying By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat. Winston Churchill learningcleverlatin It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. Winston Churchill anticipationeventswould-be The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.' Winston Churchill arrowseaglesthinking At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat. Winston Churchill blackwhitesides Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages. Winston Churchill embracefitideas We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us. Winston Churchill building To improve is to change. Winston Churchill These are great days. Winston Churchill great-dayshining Success is never final. Winston Churchill fortune-cookiecongratulationssuccess Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations. Winston Churchill illustrationdifferentway The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister. Winston Churchill battlequeenswinning The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed. Winston Churchill victorymistakepromise In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war. Winston Churchill russiafightingwar If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised. Winston Churchill wellsifsblessing
