Winston Churchill was one of the most influential leaders in British history. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He led his country during World War 2 and was one of the leading architects of victory in the Battle of Britain.
Winston Churchill had several different occupations throughout his life, including soldier, journalist, politician, novelist, and historian. He was a powerful speaker and famous for his wit, sarcasm, and eloquence. He served as Prime Minister during World War II.
The following are his inspirational quotes that will motivate you never to surrender yourself in any difficult phase of your life.
71 Winston Churchill Quotes To Face Your Challenges
“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.”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.”
“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
“Never, never, never give up.”
“Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.”
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.”
“I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen.”
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
“Things are not always right because they are hard, but if they are right one must not mind if they are also hard.”
“You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.”
“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
“To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”
“You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.”
“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. ”
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.”
“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. ”
“Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.”
“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”
“Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.”
“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.”
“You must look at facts, because they look at you.”
“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
“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.”
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
“I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.”
“For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
“I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction.”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil tears and sweat.”
“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
“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.”
“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.”
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
“You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success.”
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”
“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.”
“Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.”
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.”
“If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.”
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
“One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.”
“The true guide of life is to do what is right.”
“Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”
“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”
