950 Inspiring Winston Churchill Leadership Quotes (2023)
1. “We are the masters of our fate.”
2. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
3. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." — Winston Churchill
4. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill
5. “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.”
6. “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” ― Winston Churchill
7. “I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best”
8. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
9. “Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.”
10. “Success always demands a greater effort.”
11. “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
12. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
13. “No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”
14. “We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” ― Winston S. Churchill
15. “In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.”
16. “The speech terrified some listeners, but Churchill’s apparent candor—at least on the threat of invasion, if not the true state of the French army—encouraged others…”
17. All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
18. “A Dark and Deadly Valley”
19. “We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.” – Winston Churchill
20. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
21. “You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.” – Winston Churchill
22. It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
23. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ― Winston Churchill
24. “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
25. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill
26. “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
27. … but accept that not everyone will appreciate your efforts:
28. “Never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
29. Christmas Is A Season Not Only Of Rejoicing, But Of Reflection.” ―Winston Churchill
30. I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.
31. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” — Winston Churchill.
32. “The most important thing about education is appetite.”
33. Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.
34. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill.
35. “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” – Winston Churchill
36. “Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.”
37. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” –Winston Churchill
38. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.” ~ Winston Churchill
39. “We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.”
40. When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter. - Winston Churchill
41. “Great and good are seldom the same man.” – Winston Churchill
42. “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
43. “This is the kind of tedious [sometimes “pedantic”] nonsense up with which I will not put!”
44. “The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.”
45. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection.” — Winston Churchill
46. “Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”
47. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”– Winston Churchill
48. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.” –Winston Churchill
49. ” Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
50. “A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.” – Winston Churchill
51. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘this was their finest hour.’
52. Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge' - Seek Simple Solutions.
53. “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain”
54. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. —Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
55. Continuous effort -- not strength nor intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential. - Winston Churchill
56. “Mr Editor,” Churchill replied to the first point, “I fight for my corner.”
57. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston S. Churchill
58. “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.”
59. “I’m prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” ~ Winston Churchill
60. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”- Winston Churchill
61. “Politics is 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”
62. “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
63. “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 Churchill
64. “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
65. The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
66. “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.”
67. It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
68. “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
69. If you’re going through hell, keep going.. - Winston Churchill
70. “If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.” ~ Winston Churchill
71. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill
72. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
73. “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.”
74. "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — Winston Churchill
75. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
76. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” —Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the U.K.
77. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill
78. “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
79. Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.
80. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill.
81. “It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” ~ Winston Churchill
82. “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.”
83. “No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”
84. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
85. “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.”
86. We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
87. “One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions.”
88. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill, politician and writer
89. “Linchpin of the English-Speaking World”
90. When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
91. “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” – Winston Churchill
92. “We Shape Our Buildings”
93. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope”
94. “In War: Resolution,
95. “It's Never Over 'till it's over!
96. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” ~ Winston Churchill
97. “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.”
98. “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”
99. “it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
100. “I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.”
101. "Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential."— Winston Churchill
102. “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.”
103. “No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.”
104. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill.
105. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill
106. “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” ~ Winston Churchill
107. “A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
108. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
109. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill
110. “The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.”
111. I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
112. The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. l
113. I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
114. “Their Finest Hour”
115. “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.”
116. “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
117. “Never, never, never give in!” ― Winston S. Churchill
118. It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny.
119. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.” ~ Winston Churchill
120. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
121. “Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
122. “We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
123. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
124. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.“ – Winston Churchill
125. “A man is about as big as the things that make him angry”
126. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
127. “I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
128. “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.”
129. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
130. “Never, never, never give in!”
131. “If you're going through hell, keep going.”
132. “You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success.” -Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
133. “Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
134. “Success is not final; failure is not final. It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
135. What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.
136. “Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.” – Winston Churchill
137. You must look at facts because they look at you.
138. “Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.” ~ Winston Churchill
139. “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.”
140. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty” – Winston Churchill
141. “Never, never, never give up.”– Winston Churchill
142. “We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.”
143. “Continuous Effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
144. “Never, never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
145. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” -Winston Churchill
146. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
147. “Up with which I will not put” (Apocryphal)
148. “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.” ― Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
149. “Success is not final. failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
150. Mencken Quotes About American Politics, Democracy, and Humanity
151. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
152. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill
153. You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success.
154. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
155. “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” –Winston Churchill
156. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill
157. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
158. “We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.” ~ Winston Churchill
159. “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. ”
160. “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”
161. “I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen.” ~ Winston Churchill
162. “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.”
163. We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
164. You cannot cure cancer by a majority.
165. We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
166. “Success is never final.Failure is never fatal.But it is courage that counts.”- Winston Churchill
167. “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”
168. “I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself”
169. "If you’re going through hell, keep going."— Winston Churchill
170. “The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.” — Winston Churchill
171. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
172. Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
173. “Never Give In”
174. Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.
175. “For myself, I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
176. “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.” ~ Winston Churchill
177. Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
178. “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!”
179. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
180. "If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.” — Winston Churchill
181. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill"
182. “It is the time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill
183. “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
184. “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
185. “In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”
186. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill
187. “From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
188. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” —Sir Winston Churchill
189. “I don't like mixing up moralities with mathematics.”
190. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill
191. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” ―Winston Churchill
192. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
193. “When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” ~ Winston Churchill
194. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
195. “You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success.” ~ Winston Churchill
196. “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
197. “When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.”
198. “Captain of Our Souls”
199. “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”- Winston Churchill
200. “When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
201. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
202. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
203. “No One Would Do Such Things”
204. 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
205. “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” -Winston Churchill
206. “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
207. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ”
208. “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” ~ Winston Churchill
209. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.” – Sir Winston Churchill
210. “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
211. “We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” ~ Winston Churchill
212. “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often.” ~ Winston Churchill
213. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” ― Winston S. Churchill
214. “There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.”
215. “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” ~ Winston Churchill
216. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” –Winston Churchill, Never Give In! Winston Churchill's Greatest Speeches
217. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
218. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ―Winston Churchill
219. The true guide of life is to do what is right.
220. “This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill
221. We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
222. “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”
223. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” ~ Winston Churchill
224. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
225. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill
226. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts' - Believe In Yourself and Never Give In.
227. Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words, when short, are best of all.
228. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
229. “If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.” ~ Winston Churchill
230. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill
231. Never, never, never give up.
232. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
233. “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”
234. It is the time to dare and endure.
235. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”~ Winston Churchill
236. “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained.” -Winston Churchill
237. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality that guarantees all others.
238. Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential' - Work Hard to Get What You Want.
239. I am just an average man, but by God I work harder than the average man. - Winston Churchill
240. “Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.” – Winston Churchill
241. “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
242. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~Winston Churchill
243. “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.”
244. “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”
245. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
246. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
247. You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.
248. Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection.” — Winston Churchill
249. “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” ~ Winston Churchill
250. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
251. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill"
252. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
253. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill
254. “A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.”
255. “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
256. “Sucess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill
257. “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” –Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
258. “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
259. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
260. “We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.”
261. “Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”
262. “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
263. In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
264. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill
265. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ― Winston Churchill
266. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Sir Winston Churchill
267. You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” ― Winston Churchill
268. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston Churchill
269. It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.
270. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
271. Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
272. “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
273. “I’d Drink [Poison]” (Apocryphal)
274. “What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.” ~ Winston Churchill
275. “You must look at facts because they look at you.” ~ Winston Churchill
276. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” ~ Winston Churchill
277. “I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” —Winston Churchill, 100 Quotes by Winston Churchill
278. “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge”
279. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” —Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
280. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
281. “You create your own universe as you go along.”
282. Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.” – Winston Churchill
283. “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.”
284. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
285. “A joke is a very serious thing.”
286. “We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.” – Winston Churchill
287. “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
288. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
289. “Time and money are largely interchangeable terms.” ~ Winston Churchill
290. “It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.”
291. My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite of smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be, during all meals and in the intervals between them.
292. “War never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs.” ~ Winston Churchill
293. The age of chivalry is not dead. Here is a Lady we respect because she is our Queen and we love because of the person she is.
294. “Sugar Candy”
295. “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
296. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” ~ Winston Churchill
297. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”– Winston Churchill
298. “When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
299. “Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”
300. “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
301. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill
302. The first step is to be honest, and then to be noble. – Winston Churchill
303. “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
304. “Although public reaction [to the broadcast version of the ‘This was their finest hour’ speech] varied, one consistent theme was criticism of Churchill’s delivery.
305. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
306. “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
307. 27. “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” ― Winston Churchill
308. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
309. “History is written by the victors.” – Winston Churchill
310. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill
311. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Sir Winston Churchill
312. “The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.” – Winston Churchill
313. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
314. “He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.”
315. Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl. -Winston Churchill
316. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often.
317. “Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
318. “Kites rise high against the wind. not with it.”– Winston Churchill
319. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
320. If you're going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill
321. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
322. If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
323. “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained.” – Winston Churchill
324. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II
325. “Politics is 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
326. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
327. “In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.” ~ Winston Churchill
328. “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.”
329. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
330. “Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” ~ Winston Churchill
331. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
332. "Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about."— Winston Churchill
333. “Good and great are seldom in the same man. ”
334. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ― Winston Churchill
335. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection.” ~ Winston Churchill
336. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill, former UK prime minister
337. I'm prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
338. “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”. – Winston Churchill
339. “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
340. “We are all worms. but I do believe I am a glow-worm.” – Winston Churchill
341. “Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
342. I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. —Winston Churchill
343. “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.”
344. “Keep Calm and Carry On”
345. “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” –Winston Churchill
346. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.“
347. “I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.” –Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
348. “Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.” –Winston Churchill, The World Crisis, Vol
349. Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.
350. “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” ~ Winston Churchill
351. All wisdom is not new wisdom.
352. Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
353. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”―Winston Churchill
354. “Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.” ~ Winston Churchill
355. “I never worry about action, but only inaction.” – Winston Churchill
356. There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.
357. “Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. ”
358. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
359. “Be Ye Men of Valour”
360. If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we have lost the future.
361. You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.
362. “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” — Winston Churchill
363. “To improve is to change – to be perfect is to change often,” he said.
364. “Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”
365. Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
366. “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
367. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.“
368. “For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.” ~ Winston Churchill
369. “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” ~ Winston Churchill
370. “To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.” ~ Winston Churchill
371. Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
372. “Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.” ~ Winston Churchill
373. “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
374. “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.”
375. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill
376. Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.
377. “It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.” ~ Winston Churchill
378. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Sir Winston Churchill
379. Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford—we have no right—to look back. We must look forward. –Winston Churchill, Never Give In! Winston Churchill's Greatest Speeches
380. “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” – Winston Churchill
381. “There is nothing wrong with change if it is in the right direction.” — Winston Churchill
382. We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another.
383. “One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.” ~ Winston Churchill
384. “If you destroy a free market you create a black market.” ~ Winston Churchill
385. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” — Winston Churchill
386. “Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job.” – Winston Churchill
387. “We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”
388. “Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.” – Winston Churchill
389. “One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.”
390. “War of the Unknown Warriors”
391. If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill
392. “We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.” ~ Winston Churchill
393. “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
394. There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
395. Politics is 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.
396. Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
397. “I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.” - Winston Churchill
398. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” ~ Winston Churchill
399. “A kite flies against the wind, not with it.”
400. “My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.”
401. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
402. “A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
403. “Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.”
404. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
405. “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
406. “I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.” – Winston Churchill
407. “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.”
408. “Winston Churchill quipped, “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
409. “As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.”
410. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill
411. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” ~ Winston Churchill
412. "If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
413. “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” ~ Winston Churchill
414. “One ought to be just before one is generous.” ~ Winston Churchill
415. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
416. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston Churchill
417. “The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.” ― Winston Churchill
418. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.' – Winston Churchill
419. “Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life?
420. 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.
421. “All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.”
422. “Some chicken….Some neck!
423. “This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” – Winston Churchill
424. “there is no such thing as a good tax”
425. “Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.”
426. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. —Sir Winston Churchill
427. Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
428. “I never worry about action, but only inaction.”
429. “I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.”
430. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
431. “Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”
432. “We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
433. We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us' - Design Things Well in the First Place as the Consequences Often Last
434. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something in your life.” – Winston Churchill
435. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” – Winston Churchill
436. “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
437. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
438. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill
439. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” – Winston Churchill
440. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Winston Churchill
441. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill
442. “There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
443. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” ~ Winston Churchill
444. Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential. — Winston Churchill
445. “There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.”
446. If you’re going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill
447. I object on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to human good feeling and charity.
448. “You cannot cure cancer by a majority.” ~ Winston Churchill
449. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Winston Churchill
450. “I leave when the pub closes”
451. Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
452. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.” — Winston Churchill
453. “Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.” ~ Winston Churchill
454. “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.”
455. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
456. “Child of the House of Commons”
457. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
458. “Never give in. Never, never, never. ” – Winston Churchill
459. “it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.”
460. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
461. “I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.” ~ Winston Churchill
462. “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
463. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ” — Winston Churchill
464. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” – Winston Churchill
465. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
466. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
467. “I love to learn but I do not want to be taught”
468. If you are going through hell, keep going.
469. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me”
470. “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” ― Winston S. Churchill
471. “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.”
472. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
473. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
474. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill
475. “I am easily satisfied with the very best.” – Winston Churchill
476. “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.”
477. “I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen.”
478. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ~ Winston Churchill
479. “Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.”
480. The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, “God save the Queen”; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.
481. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
482. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
483. “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.”
484. Craft is common both to skill and deceit.
485. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” Winston Churchill
486. “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” — Sir Winston Churchill
487. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”- Winston Churchill
488. “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” ― Winston S. Churchill
489. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Sir Winston Churchill
490. I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen.
491. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill
492. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ~ Winston Churchill
493. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” ― Winston S. Churchill
494. “Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.”
495. “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat”
496. “Everyone remembers the remark of the old man at the point of death, that his life had been full of troubles— most of which had never happened.” ~ Winston Churchill
497. “If you’re going through hell, keep going. ” — Winston Churchill
498. “Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.” – Winston Churchill
499. “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 Churchill
500. “If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
501. “You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”
502. “You create your own universe as you go along.“
503. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”
504. “If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future.”
505. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill
506. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.
507. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~ Winston Churchill
508. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill
509. Courage is what it takes to stand and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen” Winston Churchill
510. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” -Winston Churchill
511. “I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.”
512. In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
513. “Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.” – Winston Churchill
514. Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
515. “Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”
516. “The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.”
517. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
518. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
519. “Play the game for more than you can afford to lose. Only then will you learn the game.” – Winston Churchill
520. “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.”
521. “Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.” ~ Winston Churchill
522. “Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”
523. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Sir Winston Churchill
524. “This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.”
525. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill.
526. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
527. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
528. “Now that we have run out of money we have to think.”
529. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
530. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill
531. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
532. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” ~ Winston Churchill
533. “Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.”
534. “It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny.” ~ Winston Churchill
535. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
536. “If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we have lost the future.” ~ Winston Churchill
537. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. —Winston Churchill
538. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
539. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
540. “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”
541. “Never, never, never give up.” — Winston Churchill
542. “If you are going through hell. keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill
543. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill
544. “You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
545. "If you’re going through hell keep going.” —Winston Churchill"
546. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
547. “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Winston Churchill.
548. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
549. Continuous effort -- not strength nor intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential. –Winston Churchill
550. “Never, never, never give up.” ~ Winston Churchill
551. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
552. “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
553. “To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”
554. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
555. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
556. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
557. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
558. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.” – Winston Churchill
559. The English never draw a line without blurring it.
560. “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.”
561. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Sir Winston Churchill
562. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
563. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. —Winston Churchill
564. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something sometime in your life.” –Winston Churchill
565. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something in your life.” ~ Winston Churchill
566. “Never, never, never give up.”
567. “Those who never change their minds, never change anything.”
568. “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war”
569. “The true guide of life is to do what is right.” ~ Winston Churchill
570. “Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.” ~ Winston Churchill
571. “The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.” ~ Winston Churchill
572. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” -Winston Churchill
573. “It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”
574. Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
575. “I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.” ~ Winston Churchill
576. Harsh laws are at times better than no laws at all.
577. “If you're going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
578. “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.” ~ Winston Churchill
579. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill
580. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill