100+ Best Churchill Quotes – Timeless Wisdom from Winston Churchill

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in.”

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

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

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

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

“Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

“Leadership is the ability to give hope and take responsibility.”

“A leader must have the lion's heart and the fox's mind.”

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

“The further backward you look, the further forward you are likely to see.”

“It is not enough to fight; it is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue.”

“Responsibility is the price of greatness.”

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

“Great and good are seldom the same man.”

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

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

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

“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

“Never, never, never give up.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.”

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“When you have nothing to lose, you are at your most dangerous.”

“Failure is not an option. It is a stepping stone.”

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”

“There is no such thing as defeat unless we accept it.”

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.”

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”

“Peace is a rare and precious possession.”

“In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.”

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace.”

“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

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

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

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

“We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”

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

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

“We shape our foreign policy not by fear, but by foresight.”

“Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.”

“For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.”

“There is always something to do. There are always things left undone. Keep moving.”

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

“We shape our destiny by how we live today.”

“There is no limit to what a man can achieve if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”

“So long as you don't give up, you still have a chance.”

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

“Happiness is a serious problem. It must be pursued vigorously, constantly, and deliberately.”

“Every man should formulate his own philosophy and follow it with vigor.”

“The longer we delay, the more difficult it becomes.”

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

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

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

“Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.”

“Knowledge is power, but imagination is everything.”

“The great thing about new ideas is that they suddenly come fully armed into the brain.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

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

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

“Broad-minded people are mostly those who have never had a narrow-minded opinion.”

“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

“We must not confuse education with examination.”

“A joke is a very serious thing.”

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

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

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

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

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of the unsaid ones.”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

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

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

“I like a man who grins when he fights.”

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

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

“He who fails to plan, plans to fail.”

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”

“It is better to be making the news than taking it. To be the cause rather than the effect.”

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

“A sheep in sheep’s clothing can be a wolf.”

“The best way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing.”

“Action this day.”

“A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures.”

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

“The central secret of success in politics and in life is never to let your opponents see your cards.”

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

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents.”

“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

“We are all worms. But I believe I am a glow-worm.”

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

“The world is wide, and full of wonders.”

“The mood of the people is everything.”

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of the unsaid ones.”

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

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”

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

“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”

“Great men are almost always bad men.”

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

“I have always believed that a journalist has the first rough draft of history.”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”

“The legacy of leaders is written in the actions of their successors.”

“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.”

“The story of the human race is the story of men and women who have freely shaped their own destinies.”

“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”

“The future belongs to the competent.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”