120 Dynamic Winston Churchill Quotes

“It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.” –

“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.” –

“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.” –

“Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.” –

“The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.” –

“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.” –

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.” –

“I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” –

“We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.” –

“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.” –

“Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.” –

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” –

“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.” –

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” –

“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.” –

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.” –

“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.” –

“Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” –

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” –

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” –

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” –

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.” –

“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.” –

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.” –

“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.” –

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” –

“No crime is so great as daring to excel.” –

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” –

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.” –

“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.” –

“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.” –

“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!” –

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” –

“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.” –

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” –

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.” –

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” –

“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.” –

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.” –

“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” –

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” –

“All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” –

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.” –

“If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.” –

“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.” –

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” –

“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.” –

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” –

“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.” –

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” –

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” –

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” –

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” –

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” –

“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” –

“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.” –

“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” –

“Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.” –

“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.” –

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” –

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” –

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” –

“Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.” –

“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” –

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” –

“We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.” –

“The English never draw a line without blurring it.” –

“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.” –

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” –

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” –

“Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!” –

“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.” –

“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.” –

“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.” –

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” –

“We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” –

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” –

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” –

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.” –

“I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.” –

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” –

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” –

“We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.” –

“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.” –

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” –

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” –

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” –

“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.” –

“Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.” –

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” –

“Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.” –

““Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”” –

“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” –

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” –

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.” –

“Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.” –

“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.” –

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.” –

“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.” –