Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Winston Churchill Quotes
Self-ReflectionMindsetCritical Thinking Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
FinancePrudenceDiscipline In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
EffortTimeEnduranceConstruction To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
SimplicityComplexityTransformationClarityInnovation Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
CreationProblem SolvingEffortHuman NatureProcess Balance Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.
PoliticsSeriousnessLeadershipGovernancePublic Service Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
PerseveranceFocusPersistenceResilienceCourage You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.
LearningGrowthSelf-RelianceIndependence Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
RenunciationCreative ExpressionNew Beginnings I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over, I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Progress Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
CharityKindnessLegislationEthics I object on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to human good feeling and charity.
PurposeDeterminationProgress It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.
Free MarketBlack MarketConsequenceEconomic Systems If you destroy a free market you create a black market.
PoliticsPredictionAccountability Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
HappinessSafetyHobbiesAuthenticity To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
TruthResilienceEndurance The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
ContributionFulfillmentPurposeKindnessLegacy We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
PragmatismCommitmentFlexibility There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.
LawRegulationsRespectAuthorityFreedom If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
EffortGrowthPersistenceDeterminationOvercoming Obstacles Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
WisdomCharacter DevelopmentEducationHuman ValuesPurpose The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
CouragePerseveranceResilience Success is not final, Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
WarPoliticsConsequenceResilience In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
DutyIntegrityCourageConviction There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.
TruthDeceptionPerceptionCommunication A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
HumilityGrowthSelf-Correction In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Truth and LiesDeceptionCynicismSocietyWisdom There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
OptimismPessimismPerspective A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
DemocracyVoter KnowledgePoliticsPublic OpinionCivic Engagement The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
ConfidenceSelf-AssuranceHumorDefiance I'm prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
LuckPerspectiveOptimismTransformation You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.