Churchill: leadership is commitment

 

History is written by the victors.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

 Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information

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.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, 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.

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

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.