Leaders Quotes | Winston Churchill Quotes
1. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
2. Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
- Winston Churchill
3. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
4. My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
- Winston Churchill
5. If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
6. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
7. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
8. 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
9. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
10. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
11. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
12. Never, never, never give in!
- Winston Churchill
13. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
14. The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
15. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
16. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
- Winston Churchill
17. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
18. For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
- Winston Churchill
19. Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
20. Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill
21. Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill
22. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
23. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill
24. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
25. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
26. Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
- Winston Churchill
27. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
28. You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
- Winston Churchill
29. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
- Winston Churchill
30. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
- Winston Churchill
31. A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
- Winston Churchill
32. We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
- Winston Churchill
33. We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
- Winston Churchill
34. We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
35. 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
36. 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.
- Winston Churchill
37. A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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.
41. 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 Churchill
42. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
43. 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.
- Winston Churchill
44. I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
- Winston Churchill
45. When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Winston Churchill
46. 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 Churchill
47. 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 Churchill
48. Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
49. Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
50. Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
- Winston Churchill
51. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
- Winston Churchill
52. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- Winston Churchill
53. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
54. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
55. 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 Churchill
56. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Winston Churchill
57. We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
- Winston Churchill
58. 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
59. 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 Churchill
60. 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
61. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
62. If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill
63. A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Winston Churchill
64. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
65. 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 Churchill
66. In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.
- Winston Churchill
67. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
68. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
69. When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
- Winston Churchill
70. There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
- Winston Churchill
71. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill
72. 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
73. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
74. The most important thing about education is appetite.
- Winston Churchill
75. There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
- Winston Churchill
76. There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
77. 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 Churchill
78. You create your own universe as you go along.
- Winston Churchill
79. A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill
80. 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
81. This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
- Winston Churchill
82. Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
- Winston Churchill
83. Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
84. We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Winston Churchill
85. Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
- Winston Churchill
86. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
87. Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
88. 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 Churchill
89. 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 Churchill
90. All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
91. I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
92. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Winston Churchill
93. Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
94. 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 Churchill
95. Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
96. This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill
97. Good and great are seldom in the same man.
- Winston Churchill
98. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Winston Churchill
99. Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
- Winston Churchill
100. 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 Churchill
101. The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
- Winston Churchill
102. When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
103. My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
- Winston Churchill
104. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
105. 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 Churchill
106. Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
107. 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 Churchill
108. it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people.
- Winston Churchill
109. There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
110. 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
111. It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
112. 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 Churchill
113. 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
114. I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.
- Winston Churchill
115. You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain.
- Winston Churchill
116. They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
- Winston Churchill
117. 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 Churchill
118. Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
- Winston Churchill
119. We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
- Winston Churchill
120. 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 Churchill
121. Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
122. 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 Churchill
123. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
124. You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.
- Winston Churchill
125. 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 Churchill
126. It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
- Winston Churchill
127. 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 Churchill
128. 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
129. 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 Churchill
130. 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 Churchill
131. A kite flies against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill
132. 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 Churchill
133. 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 Churchill
134. This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
135. A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
136. The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
- Winston Churchill
137. Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill
138. 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
139. Success always demands a greater effort.
- Winston Churchill
140. Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
141. No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
- Winston Churchill
142. Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
- Winston Churchill
143. 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 Churchill
144. Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
- Winston Churchill
145. You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
- Winston Churchill
146. The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
- Winston Churchill
147. My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.
- Winston Churchill
148. 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 Churchill
149. Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill
150. I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Born: 30 November 1874
Died: 24 January 1965
Country: United Kingdom
1. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
2. Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
- Winston Churchill
3. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
4. My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
- Winston Churchill
5. If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
6. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
7. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
8. 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
9. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
10. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
11. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
12. Never, never, never give in!
- Winston Churchill
13. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
14. The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
15. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
16. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
- Winston Churchill
17. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
18. For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
- Winston Churchill
19. Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
20. Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill
21. Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill
22. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
23. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill
24. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
25. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
26. Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
- Winston Churchill
27. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
28. You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
- Winston Churchill
29. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
- Winston Churchill
30. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
- Winston Churchill
31. A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
- Winston Churchill
32. We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
- Winston Churchill
33. We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
- Winston Churchill
34. We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
35. 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
36. 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.
- Winston Churchill
37. A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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.
41. 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 Churchill
42. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
43. 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.
- Winston Churchill
44. I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
- Winston Churchill
45. When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Winston Churchill
46. 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 Churchill
47. 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 Churchill
48. Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
49. Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
50. Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
- Winston Churchill
51. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
- Winston Churchill
52. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- Winston Churchill
53. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
54. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
55. 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 Churchill
56. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Winston Churchill
57. We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
- Winston Churchill
58. 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
59. 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 Churchill
60. 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
61. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
62. If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill
63. A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Winston Churchill
64. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
65. 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 Churchill
66. In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.
- Winston Churchill
67. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
68. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
69. When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
- Winston Churchill
70. There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
- Winston Churchill
71. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill
72. 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
73. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
74. The most important thing about education is appetite.
- Winston Churchill
75. There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
- Winston Churchill
76. There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
77. 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 Churchill
78. You create your own universe as you go along.
- Winston Churchill
79. A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill
80. 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
81. This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
- Winston Churchill
82. Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
- Winston Churchill
83. Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
84. We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Winston Churchill
85. Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
- Winston Churchill
86. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
87. Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
88. 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 Churchill
89. 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 Churchill
90. All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
91. I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
92. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Winston Churchill
93. Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
94. 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 Churchill
95. Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
96. This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill
97. Good and great are seldom in the same man.
- Winston Churchill
98. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Winston Churchill
99. Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
- Winston Churchill
100. 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 Churchill
101. The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
- Winston Churchill
102. When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
103. My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
- Winston Churchill
104. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
105. 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 Churchill
106. Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
107. 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 Churchill
108. it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people.
- Winston Churchill
109. There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
110. 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
111. It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
112. 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 Churchill
113. 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
114. I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.
- Winston Churchill
115. You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain.
- Winston Churchill
116. They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
- Winston Churchill
117. 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 Churchill
118. Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
- Winston Churchill
119. We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
- Winston Churchill
120. 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 Churchill
121. Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
122. 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 Churchill
123. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
124. You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.
- Winston Churchill
125. 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 Churchill
126. It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
- Winston Churchill
127. 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 Churchill
128. 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
129. 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 Churchill
130. 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 Churchill
131. A kite flies against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill
132. 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 Churchill
133. 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 Churchill
134. This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
135. A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
136. The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
- Winston Churchill
137. Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill
138. 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
139. Success always demands a greater effort.
- Winston Churchill
140. Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
141. No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
- Winston Churchill
142. Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
- Winston Churchill
143. 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 Churchill
144. Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
- Winston Churchill
145. You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
- Winston Churchill
146. The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
- Winston Churchill
147. My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.
- Winston Churchill
148. 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 Churchill
149. Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill
150. I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
