Inspirational Quotations by Winston Churchill

  • We make a living by what we get,
    we make a life by what we give.
    From Issue 3
  • Success is never final.
    From Issue 15
  • Never does a man portray his character more vividly
    than his proclaiming the character of another.
    From Issue 32
  • Success is going from failure to
    failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
    From Issue 59
  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
    it is the courage to continue that counts.
    From Issue 80
  • Success is the ability to go from
    failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
    From Issue 81
  • A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
    an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
    From Issue 85
  • You have enemies? Good. That means
    you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
    From Issue 155
  • A lie gets halfway around the world
    before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
    From Issue 181
  • Never, never, never give up!
    From Issue 186
  • The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
    The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
    From Issue 188
  • For myself I am an optimist -
    it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
    From Issue 217
  • Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart;
    and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
    From Issue 243
  • 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.
    From Issue 245
  • We shape our environments,
    then our environments shape us.
    From Issue 272
  • Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
    From Issue 273
  • Working hours are never long enough.
    Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are
    grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
    From Issue 296

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