Winston Churchill famous quotes

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

#Funny #Life #Leadership

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.
-- Winston Churchill

#Mistake #Victory #Promise

The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.
-- Winston Churchill

#Pride #America #Important

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
-- Winston Churchill

#War #Choices #Politics

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

#Motivational #Strength #Inspiring

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspirational #Change #Inspiring

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

#Nature #Educational #Humorous

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
-- Winston Churchill

#Determination #Military #Hard Work

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
-- Winston Churchill

#Art #People #Way

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill

#Love #Inspirational #Life

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.
-- Winston Churchill

#Lying #Down And #Energy

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
-- Winston Churchill

#Funny #Leadership #Education

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
-- Winston Churchill

#Vices #Misery #Socialism

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
-- Winston Churchill

#Memories #Commitment #Shields

In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.
-- Winston Churchill

#Needs #Defeat #Deserve

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.
-- Winston Churchill

#Lasts #Crocodiles #Appeasement

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

#Strength #Success #Badass

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

#Inspirational #Hope #Freedom

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Life

Islam to a man is like rabies to a dog
-- Winston Churchill

#Dog #Men #Islam

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.
-- Winston Churchill

#Dog #Men #Islam

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.
-- Winston Churchill

#Encouragement #Way #Mouths

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
-- Winston Churchill

#Leadership #Shapes #Architecture

There is no such thing as a good tax.
-- Winston Churchill

#Business #Taxes

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

#Philosophy #Not Giving Up #Years

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
-- Winston Churchill

#Play #Games #Design

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
-- Winston Churchill

#Lying #History #Secret

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
-- Winston Churchill

#Not Giving Up #House #Devil

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
-- Winston Churchill

#Military #Taken #Drinking

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
-- Winston Churchill

#Life #Motivational #Public Opinion

I never worry about action, but only inaction.
-- Winston Churchill

#Military #Worry #Action

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspirational #Positive #Thinking

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

#Communication #Humorous #Humility

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
-- Winston Churchill

#Courage #Time #Not Giving Up

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
-- Winston Churchill

#Art #Military #Reading

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspiring #Honesty #Truth

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
-- Winston Churchill

#Love #Family #Happiness

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-- Winston Churchill

#Military #Book #Teaching

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
-- Winston Churchill

#Life #Inspiring #Death

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
-- Winston Churchill

#Being Strong #Lonely #Tree

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

#Country #Home #Government

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
-- Winston Churchill

#World #Saving #Energy

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.
-- Winston Churchill

#Book #Adventure #Writing

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.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspirational #Leadership #Moving

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.
-- Winston Churchill

#Humorous #Drinking #Drunk

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.
-- Winston Churchill

#Life #Motivational #Success

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspirational #Simplicity #Intense

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
-- Winston Churchill

#Simple #Thinking #Self

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
-- Winston Churchill

#Wisdom #Heart #Brain

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
-- Winston Churchill

#Funny #Golf #Games

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspirational #Military #Law

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspiring #Opportunity #Mouths

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price
-- Winston Churchill

#Sleep #Thinking #Pounds

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
-- Winston Churchill

#Family #Girl #Famous Love

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?
-- Winston Churchill

#Giving #Noble #Use

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
-- Winston Churchill

#Funny #Witty #Arguing

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
-- Winston Churchill

#Scotland #Greek #Earth

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
-- Winston Churchill

#Anger #Men #Bigs

Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. 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 events.
-- Winston Churchill

#Positive #Hurt #Mistake

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspirational #Moving #Disaster

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
-- Winston Churchill

#Leadership #Looks #Ears

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-- Winston Churchill

#Business #Life Lesson #Lessons

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
-- Winston Churchill

#Success #Courage #Found

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. 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 others that have been
-- Winston Churchill

#Wise #Time #Freedom

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

#Happiness #Real #Two

History is written by the victors.
-- Winston Churchill

#History

The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.
-- Winston Churchill

#Ambition #Men #Play

Sunshine is my quest.
-- Winston Churchill

#Sunshine #Vacation #Quests

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
-- Winston Churchill

#Courage #Yield #Giving

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.
-- Winston Churchill

#Dog #People #Bike

Good and great are seldom in the same man.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspiring #Men

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspiring #Decision #Reactions

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
-- Winston Churchill

#Inspiring #Schooling

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
-- Winston Churchill

#Parent #Done #Saving

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.
-- Winston Churchill

#Home #Shapes

Nature will not be admired by proxy.
-- Winston Churchill

#Proxy

There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.
-- Winston Churchill

#Men #Play #Honor

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.
-- Winston Churchill

#Lonely #Light #The End Of The Day

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!
-- 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

#Firsts #First Time #Sentences

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.
-- Winston Churchill

#Passion #Past #Echoes

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
-- Winston Churchill

#Mother #Land #Form

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne
-- Winston Churchill

#Struggle #Giving #Enemy

The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.
-- Winston Churchill

#Real #War #Men

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.
-- Winston Churchill

#Games #Gentleman #Rugby

The only guide to man is his conscience.
-- Winston Churchill

#Men #Guides #Conscience

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.
-- Winston Churchill

#Fighting #Order #Negotiation

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
-- Winston Churchill

#Blessing #Wells

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
-- Winston Churchill

#Business #Giving #Honor

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.
-- Winston Churchill

#Men #Tasks #Shame

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.
-- Winston Churchill

#Enemy #Stood Up

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.
-- Winston Churchill

#Jerusalem #Made #Jew

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.
-- Winston Churchill

#Men #Rights #Expression

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
-- Winston Churchill

#Use #Like You

Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
-- Winston Churchill

#Horse #Race #Navy

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
-- Winston Churchill

#Men #Navy #Branches

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.
-- Winston Churchill

#Black #Free Market