Winston Churchill Quotes

Winston Churchill Quotes


Winston Churchill Quotes


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


Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

The mood of Britain is wisely and rightly averse from every form of shallow or premature exultation. This is no time for boasts or glowing prophecies, but there is this – a year ago our position looked forlorn, and well nigh desperate, to all eyes but our own. Today we may say aloud before an awestruck world, ‘We are still masters of our fate. We still are captain of our souls.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

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

Never, never, never give up.

I am not sure I should have dared to start, but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

The 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 its exceptions.

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, belief.

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

“Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.”

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess – and there are few mistakes they have ever avoided.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

“I feel also that their word is their bond. I know of no Government which stands to its obligations, even in its own despite, more solidly than the Russian Soviet Government.”

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Winston Churchill Quotes about Education

It was at “Little Lodge” I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as ‘the Governess’ was announced.

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

Winston Churchill Quotes Russia Enigma
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill Motivational Quotes
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Kites rise highest against the wind not with it.

Winston Churchill Quotes on Submarines
Enemy submarines are to be called UBoats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. UBoats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.

Winston Churchill Quotes on Speech Preparation
If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Great Winston Churchill Quotes on Leadership
I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Winston Churchill Quotes on Conservative
If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not a conservative has no brains.

Winston Churchill Quotes Democracy Worst Form
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Winston Churchill Quotes about World War Two (WW2)
Not a seat but a springboard.

The soft underbelly of the Axis.

Winston Churchill Quotes on Russia
“There are thirteen or fourteen very able men in the Kremlin who hold all Russia and more than a third of Europe in their control.”

“Never forget that Bolsheviks are crocodiles….I cannot feel the slightest trust or confidence in them. Force and facts are their only realities.”

Winston Churchill Quotes Democracy Average Voter

The best argument against democracy is a fiveminute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill Quotes in Darkest Hour

I’m getting the job only because the ship is sinking. It’s not a gift, it’s revenge.

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

Inspirational Winston Churchill Quotes

History is written by the victors.

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

Winston Churchill Quotes on Socialism

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

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

Winston Churchill Quotes on Army

I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Change Quotes by Winston Churchill

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

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

Winston Churchill Quotes on Democracy

Democracy means that when there’s a knock in the door at 3 am, it’s probably the milkman.

Democracy is a very bad form of government … but all the others are so much worse.

Life Quotes by Winston Churchill

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

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

Winston Churchill Quotes about History

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Winston Churchill Quotes about Greek

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

Winston Churchill Quotes about Art

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill Quotes about Horses

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

Funny Quotes by Winston Churchill

Don’t argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Giving Quotes by Winston Churchill

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.