Winston Churchill Quotes, Leadership Quotes, War Quotes

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

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Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

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Men are lead by trifles.

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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

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Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

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To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

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When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

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The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.

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