Winston Churchill Quotes
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
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.
We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
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.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
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.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
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 honour and good sense.
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.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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."
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
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 never happened.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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.
Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.
