Quotes by winston churchill

Quotes by

WINSTON CHURCHILL
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see"

- Winston Churchill

"A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it."

- Winston Churchill

lie

1

"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

inspire, emotion

3

"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls"

- Winston Churchill

1

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

- Winston Churchill

2

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

- Winston Churchill

2

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

- Winston Churchill

1

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."

- Winston Churchill

2

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

- Winston Churchill

2

"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."

- Winston Churchill

1

"You create your own universe as you go along."

- Winston Churchill

1

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

2

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

motivation,

4

"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, on"

- Winston Churchill

progress, process,

2

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

courage, failure, enthusiasm

0

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

2

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

- Winston Churchill

1

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

- Winston Churchill

1

"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

aim, victory

2

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

- Winston Churchill

diplomacy

2

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see"

- Winston Churchill

perspective

2

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

- Winston Churchill

1

"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."

- Winston Churchill

tradition

2

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened"

- Winston Churchill

2

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston Churchill

1

"History is written by the victors."

- Winston Churchill

2

"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."

- Winston Churchill

0

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

- Winston Churchill

2

"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."

- Winston Churchill

inspiration

2

"Never give in. 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

motivation, never give up

1

"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

2

"Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required."

- Winston Churchill

2

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at le"

- Winston Churchill

love books

1

"The most important thing about education is appetite."

- Winston Churchill

1

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

- Winston Churchill

2

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at le"

- Winston Churchill

love books

2

"A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest"

- Winston Churchill

speech

2

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

2

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

- Winston Churchill

1

"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, on"

- Winston Churchill

progress, process,

1

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

- Winston Churchill

write history, winston churchill,

2

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."

- Winston Churchill

1

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

- Winston Churchill

1

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."

- Winston Churchill

1

"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage."

- Winston Churchill

free speech

2

"Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting"

- Winston Churchill

2

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put"

- Winston Churchill

1

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."

- Winston Churchill

2

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man."

- Winston Churchill

2

"Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm"

- Winston Churchill

0

"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 "

- Winston Churchill

writing a book

2

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

- Winston Churchill

1

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."

- Winston Churchill

1

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. "

- Winston Churchill

2

"You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."

- Winston Churchill

1

"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 "

- Winston Churchill

writing a book

2

"There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure"

- Winston Churchill

1

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

- Winston Churchill

1

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

- Winston Churchill

1

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

- Winston Churchill

2

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

- Winston Churchill

god, maker

1

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

- Winston Churchill

1

"Never, never, never give up."

- Winston Churchill

2

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."

- Winston Churchill

important point

2

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Winston Churchill

2

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."

- Winston Churchill

2

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."

- Winston Churchill

2

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

- Winston Churchill

2

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

- Winston Churchill

1

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taugh."

- Winston Churchill

2

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

- Winston Churchill

fools are right

2

"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

1

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

- Winston Churchill

1

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."

- Winston Churchill

1

"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."

- Winston Churchill

politician

2

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

1

"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."

- Winston Churchill

1

"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

1

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

- Winston Churchill

responsibility, motivation,

0

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

1

"Now 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

2

"A joke is a very serious thing"

- Winston Churchill

joke, humor,

3

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

- Winston Churchill

1

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

- Winston Churchill

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