Winston Churchill
British statesman and author, 1874-1965
31 quotes.
Quotes by Winston Churchill
- A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities
- Don’t take No for an answer. Never submit to failure.
- Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.
- Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
- For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- He who fails to plan is planning to fail.
- I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction.
- It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
- It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
- Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
- Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
- Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
- Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.
- [T]ruth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.
- The price of greatness is responsibility.
- We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glow-worm.
- We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
- 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.
- You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
- Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
- There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born... When he seizes it... it is his finest hour.
- If you're going through hell keep going.
- Never give in — never, never, never, never