Inspirational Quotes by Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Maturity, One liners, Love, Inspiration, Leadership

Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
—Winston Churchill

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

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom of Europe until they become the veritable beacon of its salvation.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Man

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Family

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage, Humility, Individuality, Believe

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

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

Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Animals

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

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen’s speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Communism, Socialism

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Criticism, Critics, Government

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

Success is never final, and failure is never fatal; is it courage that counts.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage

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: Perfection, Disorder

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
—Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Deception/Lying, Lies

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Power

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Belief

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Vengeance, Revenge

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Bravery, Perseverance, Courage

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Alcoholism, Alcohol

Never, never, never give in.
—Winston Churchill

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
—Winston Churchill

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics—many times.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Politics

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

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Destiny

Well, dinner would have been splendid.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Humor

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Regret, Remorse, Disappointment

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