100+ Winston Churchill Memorable Quotes That Inspire & Motivate

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.

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

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

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

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

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

Kites rise highest against the wind—not with it.

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.

Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don’t want to do, and like it.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

A leader must have a vision, otherwise he leads nowhere.

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 succeed. Others must fail.

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

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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

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

Great and good are seldom the same man.

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Never, never, never give up.

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

When you have got to the end of your tether, tie a knot and hang on.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.

There is no such thing as giving up in politics—only regrouping for the next battle.

Failure is not an option—it’s a stepping stone.

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

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence.

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

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

Peace is a fragile thing that requires constant vigilance.

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.

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.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

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

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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too 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 a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

There is always something around the corner waiting to happen.

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

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

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

Keep calm and carry on.

We shape our destiny, and then our destiny shapes us.

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

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

My motto is: never give up.

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

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

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

There is no education like adversity.

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

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

I've achieved success by treating failure as a servant, not a master.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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

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.

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

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 cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Knowledge is power, but imagination is stronger.

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

I have always believed that the art of government is the organization of compromises.

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

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

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

A joke is a very serious thing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.

I didn't think the Germans would attack England. They'd have to be mad to do that.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be… We shall never surrender.

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

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

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

Liberty is the unyielding conviction that every human being has the capacity to be free.

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious.

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

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.

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

Parliamentary institutions are not built in a day.

The future belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

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

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

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 whole of history is littered with examples of men who rose to high places through some freak of fortune and then proved themselves entirely inadequate.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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

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

Greatness gains no advantage from malice.

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