politician Quotes

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

• 569
• motivational

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

John Buchan

• 397
• feelings

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

Winston Churchill

• 356
• success

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

Roy Bennett

• 324
• hope

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

• 301
• Success

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton

• 296
• bravery

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

Winston Churchill

• 255
• failure

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert Humphrey

• 250
• Friends

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

Winston Churchill

• 240
• Success

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

Winston Churchill

• 239
• give

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Harold MacMillan

• 230
• success

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

Winston Churchill

• 225
• courage

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Dianne Feinstein

• 204
• Excellence

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Jack Layton

• 197
• anger

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

Winston Churchill

• 181
• giving

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Nikita Khrushchev

• 146
• politics

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

Rudy Giuliani

• 144
• change

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

Roy Bennett

• 139
• believe

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Walter Elliot

• 101
• motivational

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Walter Ulbricht

• 99
• democracy

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Ann Richards

• 94
• ahead

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

Mark Udall

• 91
• borrowing

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

• 80
• Peace

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

• 75
• Bravery

The Utopias of one age have been the realities of the next.

Charles Sumner

• 65
• future

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Sonny Perdue

• 63
• ability

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

• 59
• agreeable

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

Winston Churchill

• 58
• learning

If your leadership is ample, you will be a great example.

Daniel Evans

• 57
• example

I am not smarter than anybody else, but I can outwork you.

Michael Bloomberg

• 52
• performance

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

Winston Churchill

• 46
• life

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

• 41
• Compromise

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

Winston Churchill

• 40
• Bravery

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Bernadette Devlin

• 37
• Sacrifice

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Donna Brazile

• 36
• motivational

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Astor

• 35
• educate

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

Joe Baca

• 34
• chance

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

• 30
• History

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

Winston Churchill

• 29
• Opportunity

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

Winston Churchill

• 29
• Marriage

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

Nancy Astor

• 28
• Blame

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Daniel Webster

• 25
• Honesty

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

• 25
• Greatness

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Winston Churchill

• 24
• planning

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Winston Churchill

• 24
• Knowledge

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

• 24
• Humility

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

George McGovern

• 23
• Integrity

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Winston Churchill

• 22
• Animals

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Winston Churchill

• 21
• best

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill

• 21
• Risk