No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Agreement
Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, 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
Topics: Give, Courage, Perseverance, Resolve, Beliefs, Endurance, Commitment
Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Greatness & Great Things
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Worry, Anxiety
Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Learning
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Justice
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: History, Justice
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Dogs
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
—Winston Churchill
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Beginnings
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Victory, Attitude
I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.
—Winston Churchill
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Happiness
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Simplicity
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Disorder, Perfection
When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!
—Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Quotations
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Danger
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Jobs, Courage, Bravery
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Alcohol, Alcoholism
Never, never, never quit.
—Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Difficulties, Difficulty
History is written by the victors.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: History, One liners
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. 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.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Bravery, Dedication, Courage, Realistic Expectations, Commitment, Success, Sacrifice
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Change, People, Zeal, Fanaticism
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
—Winston Churchill
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 tried from time to time.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Teamwork, Government, Democracy
When I look back on all the worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Worry
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Success & Failure, Failure, Perseverance, Success
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
—Winston Churchill
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- William Ewart Gladstone English Liberal Statesman
- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax British Politician
- Benjamin Disraeli British Head of State
- Dwight D. Eisenhower American Head of State
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