Winston Churchill Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Greatness Quotes

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

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Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

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We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

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Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

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You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

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To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

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The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

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Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

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We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

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Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

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Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

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My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.

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It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

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Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

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It happens that once we learn a thing, the motivation to keep it up grows and expands further as well. If you're going through hell, keep going.

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We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

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The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

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

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It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

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War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

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