Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Quotes

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Confidence Defense Mechanism Persuasion Political Strategy Resilience I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

This lady is not for turning.

Discipline Integrity Motivation Personal Growth Self-Esteem Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Gender Roles Governance Leadership Society Understanding Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Humor Manipulation Patience Self-interest I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Choice Economic Liberty Freedom Individual Rights Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

It's a funny old world.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.