Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

Winston Churchill (1874–1965,) fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, was a British political leader who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom 1940–45 and 1951–55. He is best remembered for his opposition to the pacification of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, for his inspiring leadership during World War II, and his forewarnings about Soviet expansionism.

Born at the Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, Churchill entered the army in 1895 and served in India, Egypt, and Sudan. He was a war correspondent during the Boer War before entering Parliament in 1900. He became prime minister in 1940 and allied with the U.S. to defeat the Axis Powers. He was an exceptional orator whose wartime speeches, broadcast over the radio in his deep voice, included many well-known passages.

Churchill was defeated in the 1945 general elections. He used his standing to warn of the dangers of Soviet expansionism in his famous “Iron Curtain” speech delivered at Fulton, Missouri, USA. He also called for European reconciliation and spoke in support of the nascent United Europe movement.

Churchill was elected prime minister for a second term in 1951; he retired from the premiership in 1955 but remained in Parliament until 1964.

Beyond politics, Churchill was a prolific author of history and biography; he was often assisted by secretaries and researchers. His notable works include The Second World War (1948–53) and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58.) Churchill was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
—Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage, Bravery

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Communism

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Communism, Socialism

I am a man of simple tastes, easily satisifed with the best.
—Winston Churchill

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

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Aging, Age

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Habit

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Democracy

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller..
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Golf

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage, Bravery, Jobs

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Authors & Writing

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Death, God, Nature, Faith, Dying

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
—Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Presidency

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Compromise

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Words

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Truth

The maxim “Nothing avails but perfection” may be spelled “Paralysis”.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Perfection

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Planning

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Criticism

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
—Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Battle

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Politics

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and the glory of the climb.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Adventure

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Power

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: The Military

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Leadership, Nation, Leaders

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage

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