Winston Churchill Quotes

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

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

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

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

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

If you find a job you love, you'll never work again.

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 had never happened

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

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

The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.