Winston Churchill Quotes

1. History is written by the victors. – Winston Churchill

2. War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. – Winston Churchill

3. No crime is so great as daring to excel. – Winston Churchill

4. I am easily satisfied with the very best. – Winston Churchill

5. The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill

6. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

7. We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. – Winston Churchill

8. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. – Winston Churchill

9. Eating words has never given me indigestion. – Winston Churchill

10. You create your own universe as you go along. – Winston Churchill

11. I never worry about action, but only inaction. – Winston Churchill

12. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

13. What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all. – Winston Churchill

14. We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. – Winston Churchill

15. Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. – Winston Churchill

16. The English never draw a line without blurring it. – Winston Churchill

17. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill

18. The most important thing about education is appetite. – Winston Churchill

19. Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. – Winston Churchill

20. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill

21. No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. – Winston Churchill

22. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill

23. When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. – Winston Churchill

24. Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. – Winston Churchill

25. I have never developed indigestion from eating my words. – Winston Churchill

26. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

27. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. – Winston Churchill

28. No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. – Winston Churchill

29. When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone. – Winston Churchill

30. Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. – Winston Churchill

31. Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others. – Winston Churchill

32. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. – Winston Churchill

33. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill

34. Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. – Winston Churchill

35. Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. – Winston Churchill

36. We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. – Winston Churchill

37. The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. – Winston Churchill

38. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

39. Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. – Winston Churchill

40. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

41. Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

42. This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read. – Winston Churchill

43. There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. – Winston Churchill

44. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. – Winston Churchill

45. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. – Winston Churchill

46. We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy. – Winston Churchill

47. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last. – Winston Churchill

48. A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. – Winston Churchill

49. We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic. – Winston Churchill

50. We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. – Winston Churchill

51. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

52. If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. – Winston Churchill

53. There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. – Winston Churchill

54. Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. – Winston Churchill

55. A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure. – Winston Churchill

56. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill

57. It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. – Winston Churchill

58. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. – Winston Churchill

59. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required. – Winston Churchill

60. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. – Winston Churchill

61. It is a fine thing, to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. – Winston Churchill

62. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. – Winston Churchill

63. Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. – Winston Churchill

64. It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required. – Winston Churchill

65. It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. – Winston Churchill

66. If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible. – Winston Churchill

67. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. – Winston Churchill

68. Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. – Winston Churchill

69. Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. – Winston Churchill

70. For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. – Winston Churchill

71. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

72. I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. – Winston Churchill

73. Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all. – Winston Churchill

74. Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. – Winston Churchill

75. You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. – Winston Churchill

76. Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

77. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. – Winston Churchill

78. Play the game for more than you can afford to lose. Only then will you learn the game. – Winston Churchill

79. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

80. We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. – Winston Churchill

81. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. – Winston Churchill

82. All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. – Winston Churchill

83. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

84. Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill

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

86. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. – Winston Churchill

87. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill

88. You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. – Winston Churchill

89. We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.- Winston Churchill – Winston Churchill

90. Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. – Winston Churchill

91. It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them. – Winston Churchill

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

93. If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. – Winston Churchill

94. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

95. It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. – Winston Churchill

96. The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. – Winston Churchill

97. In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. – Winston Churchill

98. Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions. – Winston Churchill

99. Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. – Winston Churchill

100. Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. – Winston Churchill