Quotes by Winston Churchill

"The greatest journey starts when every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."

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

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

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

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them."

"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."

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

"There is no such thing as a good tax."

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

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

"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."

"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."

"I am easily satisfied with the very best."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"Wisdom principle added 19 tells us that life is lesson 19."

"Wisdom principle added 18 tells us that life is lesson 18."

"Wisdom principle 101 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 59."

"Wisdom principle 71 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 41."

"Wisdom principle 61 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 35."

"Wisdom principle 46 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 26."

"Wisdom principle 16 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 8."

"Wisdom principle 11 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 5."

"It is a timeless truth that to speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

"When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise."

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

"When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."

"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect."

"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."

"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."

"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

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

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."

"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."

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

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

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

"Wisdom principle 96 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 56."

"Wisdom principle 91 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 53."

"Wisdom principle 66 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 38."

"Wisdom principle 51 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 29."

"Wisdom principle 36 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 20."

"Wisdom principle 26 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 14."

"Wisdom principle 21 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 11."

"True wisdom begins when you realize wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."

"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

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

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

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

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

"The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all."

"To master the mind is to understand that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"The foundation of joy is the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"The silent observer understands that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

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

"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

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

"Wisdom principle 86 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 50."

"Wisdom principle 81 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 47."

"Wisdom principle 76 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 44."

"Wisdom principle 56 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 32."

"Wisdom principle 41 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 23."

"Wisdom principle 31 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 17."

"Wisdom principle 6 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 2."

"To conquer fear is to realize that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

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

"It is a enduring truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a enduring truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect."

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"The darkest nights often reveal that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"The beauty of the unknown is that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye."

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic."

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

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

"One does not leave a convivial party before closing time."

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

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

"Great and good are seldom the same man."

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

"History is written by the victors."

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

"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."

"Politics is 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."

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

"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."

"No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

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

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

"To love truly means recognizing that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

"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."

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."

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

"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."

"A joke is a very serious thing."

"It is a profound truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The paradox of freedom is that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

"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."

"It is a radiant truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

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