Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Winston Churchill

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

Willie Mays

What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

Willie Mays

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Willie Mays

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Willie Aames

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

William Zinsser

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

William Zinsser

Writing is a craft not an art.

William S. Burroughs

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William Martin

You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You just have to remind them that they are wonderful people. If you do this consistently from the day they are born they will believe it easily.

William Lyon Phelps

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

William Lyon Phelps

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

William Jennings Bryan

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

William Jennings Bryan

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Woodrow Wilson

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

Woodrow Wilson

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

Woodrow Wilson

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

Woodrow Wilson

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.