Winston S. Churchill Quotes: 43

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

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

• My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

• If you are going through hell, keep going.

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

• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

• Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

• Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

• Never, never, never give in!

• Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

• For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

• Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

• Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

• The price of greatness is responsibility.

• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

• If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

• 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.

• We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

  Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

• When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

• 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.

• A joke is a very serious thing.

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

• Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

• Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

• When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

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

• This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

• Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

  Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

• 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.

  My Early Life, 1874-1904

• All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

• This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

• I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

• I'm bored with it all. - Last Words

• Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

• 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.

  The Second World War

• It's no use saying, "We are doing our best."You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

• It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

• Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.