Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries. Harsh laws are at times better than no laws at all. To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success. Things are not always right because they are hard, but if they are right one must not mind if they are also hard. Winston Churchill What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Should we drive out into the teeth of the gale, or should we bide contented where we were? Yet beyond the breakers was a great hope. Wave after wave, dark with storm, crested with foam, surged towards the harbour in which we still sheltered. It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities. Never give in… in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. What kind of a people do they (Japan) think we are? Is it possible they do not realise that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? Winston Churchill For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. If the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour!’ But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. If we lose, there will be nobody to care. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward… A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. And We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather. We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end. 24 Sir Winston Churchill Quotes to Inspire You to Never Quit in Hard Times Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we have lost the future. It’s not enough that we do our best sometimes we have to do what’s required.
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