Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

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

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

Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Winston CHurchill

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

Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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. Never run away from anything. Never!

Winston Churchill

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

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

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.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Winston Churchill

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

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

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.

Winston Churchill

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Winston Churchill

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.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill