“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston Churchill
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” ― Winston Churchill
“Never, never, never give in!” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“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
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“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
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” ― Winston Churchill
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ― Winston Churchhill
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” ― Winston Churchill
“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” ― Sir Winston Churchill
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.” ― Winston Churchill
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” ― Winston Churchill
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.” ― Winston Churchill
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."
“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.” ― Winston Churchill
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope” ― Winston Churchill
“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.” ― Winston Spencer-Churchill
“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.” ― Winston Churchill
“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.” ― Winston Churchill
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.” ― Winston Churchill
“A joke is a very serious thing.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” ― Winston S. Churchill,
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.” ― Winston Churchill
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” ― Winston Churchill
“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 for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” ― Winston Churchill
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“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 S. Churchill
“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.” ― Winston Churchill
“In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Good Will.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” ― Winston Churchill
“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ” ― Winston S. Churchill
“An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill) "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." — Churchill's response” ― Winston S. Churchill
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” ― Winston Churchill
“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.” ― Winston Churchill
“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We shall go on to the end, 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 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, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“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 S. Churchill
“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983” ― Winston S. Churchill
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.” ― Winston Churchill
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.” ― Winston Churchill
“There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.” ― Winston Churchill
“You create your own universe as you go along.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” ― Winston Churchill
“The most important thing about education is appetite.” ― Winston Churchill
“Good and great are seldom in the same man. ” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.” ― Winston S. Churchill,
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain” ― Winston Churchill
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” ― Winston Churchill
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” ― Winston S Churchill
“Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” ― Winston Churchill
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. 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 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 S. Churchill
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. ” ― Winston Churchill
“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I'm bored with it all. - Last Words” ― Winston Churchill
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.” ― Winston Churchill
“Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!” ― Winston Churchill
“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.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened” ― Winston S. Churchill
“And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.” ― Winston Churchill
“I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.” ― Winston Churchill
“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” ― Winston Churchill
“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. ” ― Winston Churchill
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.” ― Winston Churchill
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.” ― sir winston churchill
“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.” ― Winston Churchill
“The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.” ― Winston s. Churchill
“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ” ― Winston Churchill
“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.” ― Winston Churchill
“It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.” ― Winston Churchill
“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.” ― Winston Churchill
“If you're going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston Churchill
“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.” ― Winston Churchill
“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Success always demands a greater effort.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Eating words has never given me indigestion.” ― Winston Churchhill
“[B]y being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. They all went on to learn Latin and Greek and splendid things like that. But I was taught English. We were considered such dunces that we could learn only English. Mr. Somervell -- a most delightful man, to whom my debt is great -- was charged with the duty of teaching the stupidest boys the most disregarded thing -- namely, to write mere English. He knew how to do it. He taught it as no one else has ever taught it. Not only did we learn English parsing thoroughly, but we also practised continually English analysis. . . Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence -- which is a noble thing. And when in after years my schoolfellows who had won prizes and distinction for writing such beautiful Latin poetry and pithy Greek epigrams had to come down again to common English, to earn their living or make their way, I did not feel myself at any disadvantage. Naturally I am biased in favour of boys learning English. I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat. But the only thing I would whip them for would be not knowing English. I would whip them hard for that.” ― Winston Churchill
“Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.” ― Winston Churchill
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” ― Winston Churchill
“there is no such thing as a good tax” ― Winston Churchill
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose” ― Winston S. Churchill
“A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“A kite flies against the wind, not with it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Keep Calm and Carry On” ― Winston Churchill
“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.” ― Winston Churchill
“The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye. ” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I never worry about action, but only about inaction.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“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
“I am easily satisfied with the very best.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.” ― Sir Winston S. Churchill
“If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."
“You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― Winston Churchill
“Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors” ― WINSTON S CHURCHILL
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.” ― Sir Winston Churchill
“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“My education was interrupted only by my schooling.” ― Winston Churchill
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]” ― Winston S. Churchill
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.” ― Winston Churchill
“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 S. Churchill
“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry” ― Winston Churchill
“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Those who never change their minds, never change anything.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them” ― Winston Churchill
“Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not a conservative has no brains.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: Tell His Lordship: I'm sealed on The Privy and can only deal with one shit at a time” ― Winston Churchill
“Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. ” ― Winston Churchill
“A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Safari, so goody.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“He's a humble man with much to be humble about.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.” ― Winston Churchill
“I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.” ― Winston Churchill
“And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.” ― Winston Churchill
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.” ― Winston Churchill
“I love to learn but I do not want to be taught” ― Winston S. Churchill
“If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.” ― Winston Churchill
“A change is as good as a rest.” ― Winston Churchill
“I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston Churchill
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.” ― Winston Churchill
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” ― Winston Churchill
“He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.” ― Winston Churchill
“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.” ― Winston Churchill
“Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.” ― Winston Churchill
“It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...” ― Winston Churchill
“A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Now that we have run out of money we have to think.” ― Winston Churchill
“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. 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
“but at the Lychgate we may all pass our own conduct and our own judgments under a searching review. It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. In one phase men seem to have been right, in another they seem to have been wrong. Then again, a few years later, when the perspective of time has lengthened, all stands in a different setting. There is a new proportion. There is another scale of values. History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.” ― Winston Churchill
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.” ― Winston Churchill
“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“While the Hindu elaborates his argument, the Moslem sharpens his sword. Between these two races and creeds…the gulf is impassable.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.” ― Winston Churchill
“It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“All was there—the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Dinner would have been splendid...if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.” ― Churchill, Winston
“If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Resposibility is the price of greatness.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Of course I'm an egoist. Where do you get if you aren't?” ― Winston Churchill
“A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.” ― Winston Churchill
“The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.” ― Winston Churchill
“I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed...why should we fear for our future?” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Never, give in! Never give in! Never, never, never... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!” ― Sir Winston Churchill
“There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilization—and in its soil grow continually freedom, comfort, and culture. When Civilization reigns, in any country, a wider and less harassed life is afforded to the masses of the people. The traditions of the past are cherished, and the inheritance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all.” ― Winston Churchill
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.” ― Winston Churchill
“Not an hour is lost that is spent in the saddle.” ― Winston Churchill
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?” ― Winston Churchill
“If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future.” ― Winston Churchill
“Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.” ― Winston Churchill
“There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision. Life is a whole, and luck is a whole, and no part of them can be separated from the rest.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.” ― Winston Churchill
“I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I don't like mixing up moralities with mathematics.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.” ― Winston Churchill
“We are the masters of our fate.” ― Winston Churchill
“Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.” ― Winston Churchill
“People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.” ― Winston Churchill
“What shall I do with all my books?' was the question, and the answer, 'Read them,' sobered the questioner. But if you cannot read them, at the very least handle them and, as it were, fondle them. Peer into them. Let them fall open as they will. Read on from the first sentence that turns the eye. Then turn to another. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. Set them back on their shelves with your own hands. Arrange them on your own plan, so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.” ― Winston Churchill
“One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions.” ― Winston Churchill
“Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster.” ― Winston Churchill
“I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.” ― Winston Churchill
“When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.” ― Winston Churchill
“nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.” ― Winston Churchill
“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” ― Winston Churchill
“Writing a book is an adventure to begin with, it is a toy and an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.” ― Winston Churchill
“I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.” ― Winston Churchill
“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.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“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.” ― Winston Churchill
“When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.”
“It is a mistake to read too many good books when quite young. A man once told me that he had read all the books that mattered. Cross-questioned, he appeared to have read a great many, but they seemed to have made only a slight impression. How many had he understood? How many had entered into his mental composition? How many had been hammered on the anvils of his mind and afterwards ranged in an armoury of bright weapons ready to hand? It is a great pity to read a book too soon in life. The first impression is the one that counts….Young people should be careful in their reading, as old people in eating their food. They should not eat too much. They should chew it well.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war” ― Winston Churchill
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” ― Winston Churchill