Winston Churchill Quotes

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

“Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.”

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

“Success is never final.”

“Never, never, never give up.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose, only then will you learn the game.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

“Success always demands a greater effort.”

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

“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.”

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

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

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

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”

“Excellence is... caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical; expecting more than others think is possible.”

“You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.”

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

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

“Perfection is the enemy of progress.”

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

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

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

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

“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. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”