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"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."

Winston Churchill on Best

More quotes about Best

• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

  John Wooden on Best

• "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

  Thomas Jefferson on Best

• "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

  Theodore Roosevelt on Best

• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

  e. e. cummings on Best

• "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

  Dalai Lama on Best

More quotes by Winston Churchill

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

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

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

• "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

• "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."