"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

Mark Twain, American Author

Positive, Compliment, Months

"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Winston Churchill

"Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down."

Humor

"In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might."

Strategy

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

Architecture

"I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Life

"Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force."

History

"We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest."

Society

"Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing."

Motivation

"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham."

Politics

"Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man."

Philosophy

"In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward."

Freedom