Winston Churchill Quotes

British statesman, army officer, writer, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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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.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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If you are going through hell, keep going.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
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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.
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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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A fanatic is someone who cannot change his mind and will not change the subject.
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
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Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston S. Churchill

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For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
– Winston S. Churchill

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No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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Never give in, 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 a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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Keep calm and carry on.
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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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.
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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.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
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The best argument against democracy is a five- minute conversation with the average voter.
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A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
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There is no such thing as a good tax.
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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.
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If you’re going through hell take a nap.
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.
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Success is the ability to go from one nap to another with no loss of enthusiasm
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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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.
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I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
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History is written by the victors.
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
– Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British politician.

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You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
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Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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