Winston Churchill is one of the most quoted world leaders of modern times. Here are 200+ Winston Churchill quotes to draw strength from.
Winston Churchill – Politician
Winston Churchill was one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. He was a great statesman, orator, and writer. But Churchill was more than just a great leader; he was also a man who faced his fears head-on and drew strength from them.
Arguably being the right man in the right place at the right time, Churchill’s leadership through some of the darkest days in British and world history is legendary.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a never ending source of quips, one liners, and sombre and meaningful quotes, such as:
“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.”
Best Winston Churchill Quotes
There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
– Winston Churchill
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
– Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.
– Winston Churchill
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All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
– Winston Churchill
It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.
– Winston Churchill
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
– 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
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
– Winston Churchill
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
– Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
– Winston Churchill
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
– Winston Churchill
My tastes are simple—I am easily satisfied with the best.
– Winston Churchill
No One Would Do Such Things.
– Winston Churchill
We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
– Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
– 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
Churchill Inspirational Quotes
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
– Winston Churchill
Captain of Our Souls.
– Winston Churchill
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.
– Winston Churchill
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
– Winston Churchill
The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy, but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
– Winston Churchill
In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
– Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
– Winston Churchill
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
– Winston Churchill
Be Ye Men of Valour.
– Winston Churchill
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
– Winston Churchill
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
– Winston Churchill
This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
– Winston Churchill
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
– Winston Churchill
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Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
– Winston Churchill
It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
– Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
– Winston Churchill
Famous Churchill Quotes
Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.
– Winston Churchill
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
– Winston Churchill
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.
– Winston Churchill
I leave when the pub closes.
– Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
– Winston Churchill
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
– Winston Churchill
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
– Winston Churchill
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
– Winston Churchill
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation. Indeed, it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
– 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
Politics is 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
Withhold No Sacrifice
– Winston Churchill
We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
– Winston Churchill
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
– Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
– Winston Churchill
Linchpin of the English-Speaking World.
– Winston Churchill
Famous Winston Churchill Quotes
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
– Winston Churchill
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
– Winston Churchill
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
– Winston Churchill
I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
– Winston Churchill
I’d Drink [Poison]” (Apocryphal)
– 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
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
– Winston Churchill
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.
– Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
– Winston Churchill
Lousy.
– Winston Churchill
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
– 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
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact.
– 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
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
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
– Winston Churchill
Churchill Sayings
And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves are exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.
– Winston Churchill
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
– Winston Churchill
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
– Winston Churchill
Their Finest Hour.
– Winston Churchill
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
– Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
– Winston Churchill
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
– Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.
– Winston Churchill
Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.
– Winston Churchill
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If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
– Winston Churchill
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
– Winston Churchill
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues—the most dominating virtues of humans—are created, strengthened, and maintained.
– Winston Churchill
What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.
– Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
– Winston Churchill
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
– Winston Churchill
Never Give In.
– Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill – Quotes
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
– Winston Churchill
Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
– 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
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
– Winston Churchill
Total and Unmitigated Defeat.
– Winston Churchill
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
– Winston Churchill
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
– Winston Churchill
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
– Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
– Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
– Winston Churchill
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
– Winston Churchill
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
– Winston Churchill
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
– Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
– Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
– 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
Churchill Famous Quotes
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
– 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
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
– Winston Churchill
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
– Winston Churchill
For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
– Winston Churchill
In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
– Winston Churchill
I don’t like mixing up moralities with mathematics.
– Winston Churchill
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.
– 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
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
– Winston Churchill
A Dark and Deadly Valley.
– Winston Churchill
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. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
– Winston Churchill
The King’s Ships Were at Sea.
– Winston Churchill
There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.
– Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
– Winston Churchill
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
– Winston Churchill
Famous Quotes from Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike, and none of the vices I admire.
– Winston Churchill
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.
– Winston Churchill
Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on, swinging bravely forward along the grand high road, and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.
– Winston Churchill
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
– Winston Churchill
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
– 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
My conclusion on freewill and predestination—they are identical.
– Winston Churchill
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
– Winston Churchill
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
– Winston Churchill
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat.
– Winston Churchill
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
– Winston Churchill
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.
– Winston Churchill
Child of the House of Commons.
– Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
– Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
– Winston Churchill
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.
– Winston Churchill
Quotes From Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
– Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
– Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
– Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
– Winston Churchill
No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.
– Winston Churchill
Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
– Winston Churchill
There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.
– Winston Churchill
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
– Winston Churchill
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
– Winston Churchill
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
– Winston Churchill
Sugar Candy.
– Winston Churchill
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
– Winston Churchill
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
– Winston Churchill
The End of the Beginning.
– Winston Churchill
Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.
– Winston Churchill
You ask, ‘What is our aim?’ I can answer in one word. It is victory—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
Winston Churchill Famous Quotes
Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
– Winston Churchill
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
– Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
– Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as a good tax.
– Winston Churchill
Up with which I will not put.
– Winston Churchill
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
– Winston Churchill
Some Chicken—Some Neck.
– Winston Churchill
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
– Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
– 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
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
Never, never, never give up.
– Winston Churchill
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.
– Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
– Winston Churchill
If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
– Winston Churchill
Quotes – Winston Churchill
Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.
– Winston Churchill
It is the people who control the government, not the government the people.
– Winston Churchill
I hate nobody except Hitler—and that is professional.
– Winston Churchill
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
– Winston Churchill
You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.
– Winston Churchill
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
– Winston Churchill
The Few.
– Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
– Winston Churchill
The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
– Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
– Winston Churchill
A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
– Winston Churchill
You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.
– Winston Churchill
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is—the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
– Winston Churchill
I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.
– Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
– Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Quotations
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
– Winston Churchill
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.
– Winston Churchill
To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.
– Winston Churchill
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
– Winston Churchill
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