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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

Compassion

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Success

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

Change

"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection."

- Winston Churchill

Reflection

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

- Winston Churchill

Love

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."

- Winston Churchill

Leadership

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

Change

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

Generosity

"Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting."

- Winston Churchill

Creativity

""We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.""

- Winston Churchill

Generosity

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

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Resilience

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Failure

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

- Winston Churchill

Hope

"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

New Beginnings

"Success is Not Final, Failure is Not Fatal: it is the Courage to Continue that Counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Success is Walking from Failure to Failure."

- Winston Churchill

Failure

"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty"

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

"Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job."

- Winston Churchill

Teamwork

"Never give in. Never, never, never."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures."

- Winston Churchill

Joy

"Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it!"

- Winston Churchill

Persistence

"Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston Churchill

Persistence

"Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston Churchill

Persistence

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Failure

"Success is Walking from Failure to Failure"

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Failure

"Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."

- Winston Churchill

Learning from Mistakes

"History is written by the victors."

- Winston Churchill

Philosophy

"“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”"

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"If you’re going through hell, keep going!"

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Success

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."

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Leadership

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

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Courage

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a difference."

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength."

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Strength

"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection."

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Reflection

"In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable."

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Philosophy

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

- Winston Churchill

Connection to Earth

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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Responsibility

"It's of great advantage to make the mistakes from which one can learn as early as possible."

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Learning from Mistakes

"Never was so much owed by so many to so few."

- Winston Churchill

Gratitude

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

- Winston Churchill

Gratitude

"I kiss your vision as it rises before my mind."

- Winston Churchill

Love

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

- Winston Churchill

Awareness

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

Contribution

"Sunshine is my quest."

- Winston Churchill

Happiness

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

- Winston Churchill

Strength

"To improve is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often."

- Winston Churchill

Transformation

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage to continue that counts."

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Success

"A lie can be halfway around the globe before the truth can have a chance to get its pants up."

- Winston Churchill

Wisdom

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the journey."

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Courage

"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

Bravery

"Mountaintops inspire leaders, but valleys mature them."

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Leadership

""Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.""

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

""Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.""

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

Learning

"When will the lesson be learned! You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!"

- Winston Churchill

Adversity

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

- Winston Churchill

Awareness

""Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.""

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"Continuous effort -- not strength nor intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston Churchill

Determination

"Success is walking from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Success

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

- Winston Churchill

Insight

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

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Courage

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"

- Winston Churchill

Inspiration

"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job."

- Winston Churchill

Determination

"Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

- Winston Churchill

Vision

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory!"

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Determination

"For without victory there is no survival."

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Courage

"Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar."

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Courage

"We shall never surrender!"

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Courage

"This was their Finest Hour."

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Courage

"This is a war of the Unknown Warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other wise, I were not to convey the true impression, that a great nation is getting into its war stride."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"We are still masters of our fate. We still are captain of our souls."

- Winston Churchill

Belief in Self

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

- Winston Churchill

Motivation

"I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my father’s house to believe in democracy."

- Winston Churchill

Belief

"Some chicken….Some neck!"

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."

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Courage

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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Courage

"We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."

- Winston Churchill

Philosophy

"I fight for my corner."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"We shall provide against and thus prevail over the dangers and problems of the future, withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well."

- Winston Churchill

Hope

"Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"Never, never, never give up."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Failure

"Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

- Winston Churchill

Determination

"Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about."

- Winston Churchill

Determination

""Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.""

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

""Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.""

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, give, up!"

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"IF YOU’RE GOING THROUGH HELL, KEEP GOING."

- Winston Churchill

Strength

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Motivation

"The pessimists sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained."

- Winston Churchill

Family

"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."

- Winston Churchill

Personal Growth

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

- Winston Churchill

Philosophy

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

- Winston Churchill

Change

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"Never was so much owed by so many few."

- Winston Churchill

Gratitude

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."

- Winston Churchill

Health

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

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Overcoming Obstacles

"We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us."

- Winston Churchill

Influence

"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."

- Winston Churchill

Reflection

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues … are created, strengthened and maintained."

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Family

"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."

- Winston Churchill

Motivation

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees difficulty in every difficulty."

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Optimism

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained."

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Family

""My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."—Winston Churchill"

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Love

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference."

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm"

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

- Winston Churchill

Morality

""Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.""

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Perseverance

"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

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Philosophy

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Winston Churchill

Adversity

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

- Winston Churchill

Belief

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on."

- Winston Churchill

Honesty

"You can always rely on America to do the right thing—once it has exhausted the alternatives."

- Winston Churchill

Philosophy

"“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”"

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

""There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues … are created, strengthened and maintained.""

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Family

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"

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Persistence

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

- Winston Churchill

Philosophy

"Never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"Never never never give up."

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Perseverance

"Everyone remembers the remark of the old man at the point of death, that his life had been full of troubles—most of which had never happened."

- Winston Churchill

Awareness

"“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”"

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”"

- Winston Churchill

Persistence

"“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”"

- Winston Churchill

Philosophy

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Persistence

"Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it."

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"It’s not enough that we do our best. Sometimes we have to do what’s required."

- Winston Churchill

Responsibility

"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity."

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."

- Winston Churchill

Failure

"The Pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The Optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. But it is courage that counts."

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Courage

"no loss of enthusiasm."

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Motivation

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm"

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Persistence

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often"

- Winston Churchill

Change

"Success is not final, and failure is not fatal: what matters is the determination to keep going."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"Failure is not fatal, and success is not final.: it is the courage to continue those counts."

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Perseverance

"Walking from failure to failure with enthusiasm is what defines success."

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Perseverance

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

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Bravery

"Who dares wins."

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Bravery

"Never, Never, Never, Never Give Up"

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Perseverance

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

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Determination

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

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Learning

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

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Boldness

"There is nothing noble being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

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Personal Growth

"Enemies outside cannot harm you when you overcome your inner enemy."

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Inner Peace

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues3 are created, strengthened and maintained."

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Family

"I never worry about action, but only inaction."

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Motivation

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

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Wisdom

"No Hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."

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Contentment

"When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have."

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Gratitude

"When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast."

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Wisdom

"We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us."

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Influence

"Who dares wins"

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Bravery

""Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.""

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Persistence

"Who dares win"

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Bravery

""Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference.""

- Winston Churchill

Motivation

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

Generosity

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that count."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"The Pessimist Sees Difficulty in Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity in Every Difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"Success is not final, failure is not end"

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Resilience

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm"

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Persistence

"Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

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Resilience

"Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

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Philosophy

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

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Philosophy

"Remember gentleman, it’s not just France we’re fighting for, it’s Champagne!"

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Motivation

"To be Successful is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

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Courage

"It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them."

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Strength

"Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about."

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Perseverance

"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

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Education

"Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly."

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Philosophy

""A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.""

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Positivity

""You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.""

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Focus

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

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Faith

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

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Reflection

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

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Courage

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

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Adversity

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

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Philosophy

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

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Determination

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defens our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

- Winston Churchill

Bravery

"We make a life by what we give; we make a living by what we get."

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Contribution

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man."

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Healing

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

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Reflection

"Never never give up"

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Perseverance