Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

—Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between...

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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

—Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

—Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

—Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

—Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

—Winston Churchill

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Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself. . . . Anybody can have ideas — the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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How my achievements mock me!

—William Shakespeare

All great achievements require time.

—Maya Angelou

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Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

—Jack London in White Fang

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