Monday 24 March 2014

Winston Churchill Quotes







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



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




  • A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
    ~Winston Churchill




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




  • All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
    ~Winston Churchill




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





  • Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·       If you're going through hell, keep going.~Winston Churchill





  • ·         A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Never, never, never give up.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.~Winston Churchill




  • ·         It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·          There is no such thing as a good tax.
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
    ~Winston Churchill




  • ·         My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
    ~Winston Churchill


Friday 21 March 2014

Abraham Lincoln Quotes




Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.






When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.






A house divided against itself cannot stand.






As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.






I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.






Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.






Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.






America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.






No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar






Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.






The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.






In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.






I don't think much of a man who is not wiser than he was yesterday.






Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.








Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.






It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.






Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.






I don't think much of a man who is not wiser than he was yesterday.






Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.






I will prepare and some day my chance will come.






A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Wednesday 19 March 2014

Albert Einstein Quotes





‘I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones’




Imagination is more important than knowledge







Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.




Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.




Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.




There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.



Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.




Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.




The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.




I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.




Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.




Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.



Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value




If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.




Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.




The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.




If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.




A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.




Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.




The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.




Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.




We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.




I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.




A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?




Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.




The only real valuable thing is intuition.




Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources




If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.




I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Monday 17 March 2014

Wayne Knight Quotes








  • If love is a crime, lock me up, I am guilty.
    ~Wayne Knight


  • What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.
    ~Wayne Knight



  • Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
    ~Wayne Knight




  • I think early in my life I may have been more explosive, internally, than I am now.
    ~Wayne Knight




  • Those characters are like my dark side magnified by a thousand. Now I`ve mellowed in my older age, but I`m still playing that.
    ~Wayne Knight

Sunday 16 March 2014

Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes





  • Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.~Napoleon Bonaparte



  • Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • Death is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • An Army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte






  • Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight like a lion.~Napoleon Bonaparte
                      



  • A picture is worth a thousand words.~Napoleon Bonaparte





  • Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.~Napoleon Bonaparte





  • I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte





  • In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” 
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • History is a set of lies agreed upon.” 
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • Imagination rules the world.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • Victory belongs to the most persevering.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.~Napoleon Bonaparte
                      



  • He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte





  • It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • A leader is a dealer in hope.~Napoleon Bonaparte





  • A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.~Napoleon Bonaparte




  • He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.~Napoleon Bonaparte
                      





  • If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.~Napoleon Bonaparte

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