100+ Powerful Winston Churchill Quotes – Top Inspirational Sayings

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

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

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

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

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

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

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

Failure is merely a stepping stone to success when we persist.

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

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

A leader must lead, even if only from behind.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The mood of the people tends to follow the mood of the leader.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Nothing is more costly than the loss of courage.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the one that guarantees all others.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Never, never, never give up.

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

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

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

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

There is no such thing as safety in numbers or retreat.

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

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already happened.

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 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.

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.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

No one would have done anything in the world had they waited for certainty.

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

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

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I’ve always believed that action is the antidote to despair.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Failure is a good teacher, and I'm learning.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even when you are alone, you are never alone.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Peace is a rare and precious possession.

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

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

A nation that draws too long a breath between drinks may easily suffocate.

The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits—not animals.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Security is chiefly a superstition. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.

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.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

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.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

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

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

New birth will come from new thought.

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

There is no such thing as static perfection.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The future belongs to the young at heart.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

The generation which ignores history has no past—and no future.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

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

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

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

The short answer is, "No." The long answer is, "Hell no."

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. And perhaps a good whisky.

One should lie late in bed in the morning as an honor to the day.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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

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

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

Life is one damn thing after another.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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.

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

Live dangerously; die gloriously.

Every man makes his own luck.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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

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

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.