99 Winston Churchill Quotes and Sayings
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Winston Churchill Quotes
- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
- “I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.” – Winston Churchill
- “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
- “Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.” – Winston Churchill
- “Play the game for more than you can afford to lose. Only then will you learn the game.” – Winston Churchill
- “I never worry about action, but only inaction.” – Winston Churchill
- “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill
- “Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.” – Winston Churchill
- “A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.” – Winston Churchill
Inspiring Winston Churchill Quotes
- “Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.” – Winston Churchill
- “I am easily satisfied with the very best.” – Winston Churchill
- “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
- “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.” – Winston Churchill
- “Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.” – Winston Churchill
- “We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.” – Winston Churchill
- “The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.” – Winston Churchill
- “The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.” – Winston Churchill
- “It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” – Winston Churchill
- “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” – Winston Churchill
Quotes by Winston Churchill
- “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” – Winston Churchill
- “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” – Winston Churchill
- “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” – Winston Churchill
- “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill
- “When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” – Winston Churchill
- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill
- “It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.” – Winston Churchill
- “All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” – Winston Churchill
- “All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.” – Winston Churchill
- “Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” – Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Quotes
- “We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” – Winston Churchill
- “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill
- “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” – Winston Churchill
- “We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.” – Winston Churchill
- “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill
- “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.” – Winston Churchill
- “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
- “I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.” – Winston Churchill
- “There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” – Winston Churchill
- “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” – Winston Churchill
Motivational Winston Churchill Quotes
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” – Winston Churchill
- “Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.” – Winston Churchill
- “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill
- “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.” – Winston Churchill
- “It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.” – Winston Churchill
- “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston Churchill
- “Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.” – Winston Churchill
- “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
- “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Quotes
- “There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.” – Winston Churchill
- “To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” – Winston Churchill
- “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” – Winston Churchill
- “You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill
- “In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.” – Winston Churchill
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
- “I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” – Winston Churchill
- “Great and good are seldom the same man.” – Winston Churchill
- “History is written by the victors.” – Winston Churchill
- “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Quotes
- “The English never draw a line without blurring it.” – Winston Churchill
- “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” – Winston Churchill
- “It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.” – Winston Churchill
- “Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.” – Winston Churchill
- “If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.” – Winston Churchill
- “I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” – Winston Churchill
- “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
- “Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.” – Winston Churchill
- “The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.” – Winston Churchill
- “When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.” – Winston Churchill
Inspiring Short Quotes by Winston Churchill
- “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” – Winston Churchill
- “Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.” – Winston Churchill
- “War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.” – Winston Churchill
- “In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.” – Winston Churchill
- “No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.” – Winston Churchill
- “We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.” – Winston Churchill
- “One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”– Winston Churchill
- “Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.” – Winston Churchill
- “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchill
- “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.” – Winston Churchill
Famous Winston Churchill Quotes
- “It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” – Winston Churchill
- “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston Churchill
- “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” – Winston Churchill
- “Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.” – Winston Churchill
- “If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.” – Winston Churchill
- “Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!”
- “What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.” – Winston Churchill
- “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” – Winston Churchill
- “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.” – Winston Churchill
- “In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.” – Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Quotes
- “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.” – Winston Churchill
- “Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.” – Winston Churchill
- “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” – Winston Churchill
- “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” – Winston Churchill
- “No crime is so great as daring to excel.” – Winston Churchill
- “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.” – Winston Churchill
- “The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.” – Winston Churchill
- “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
- “Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.” – Winston Churchill
